This morning, when it seemed like my web site was only a few minutes from launching, I was walking in the hallway and passed a colleague who asked me how my weekend was. I mentioned that I'd driven to the south-western part of the state to where my father comes from. And on the way back, I said, "we got into some rain, we ran into a storm just this side of Canberra."
"Canberra?" he said.
"No, not Canberra. I was thinking 'Capital', and so the word for 'Capital' came out. Madison. The storm was just this side of Madison."
I blamed my mistake on the fact that my brain was addled from the web site relaunch. But it really did feel like the right word when I was saying it.
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