Tue, 7 July

JOBS, v. 1. (imperative, domestic) To assign, wordlessly, by a gesture that means everything. The upward chin-tilt toward the locked box. The torn paper handed left. 2. (imperative, familial) What a father says when five people are standing in a room and only one of them knows that the key the toddler is holding is the wrong key and this is somehow fine. 3. (imperative, insufficient) One syllable standing in for: I trust you, I see you, I love you, let's get out of here.