busy-ness = business

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            I ran only the stairs today because I wanted to take shorter time with it.  I am in a pleasant situation.  I have a lot of stuff to do, I want to do a lot of stuff, and I don’t have time to waste.  I can remember sometime last year when I would intentionally give myself a heap of time to get to wherever I was going, and I would take the long route so I would be on the road longer.  I loved being in the car—I had a purpose and I could listen to NPR, or a book on CD.  I much prefer business.  (Whoa—can you believe it?  Has anyone ever noticed that ‘business’ can be formed by putting –ness on the end of the word ‘busy’?  I wanted to say “I much prefer busy-ness.”  I decided to change the y to i and add the ending.  Low and behold…business.)