Defenestration of argot

...or throw the slang out the window.

It appears that we have lost one of our contributors. And I'm losing steam. But.. I must... carry...on.

Lately I've become disturbed by the quality of my vocabulary and grammar. Perhaps the books I've been reading aren't challenging my brain to pick up new words or more refined ways of speaking (Harry Potter...?) I usually end up assimilating types of speech when reading certain books. Beware when I've delved into Dickens. I forswear re-reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series. My gods, the shit I picked up from those tomes. Maybe I need to get into some critical theory, but phlpckack! How dry....

Okay, back to work.

Film screening tonight! Joy!

[in]eloquently,
S

oh yes, she did.

we just received a donation at work that included a playboy publishing book on creative nude photography, circa 1980. my boss showed me and a coworker a photo of a girl with weird, huge, 70s boobs wearing only a macrame plant holder as a necklace. or maybe it was a necklace. um, awkward.

while it was a very funny photo, it's one that i would have laughed at with my friends and a select couple of coworkers. not loudly in front of patrons, and certainly not with my boss.

anyhew, why am i so very timid when it comes to speaking up sometimes?

then....*shudder*... she showed it to a member of the faculty. luckily he's young and hip and he is a bit more advanced, but come on. ew.

cringing with awkwardness,
S

all good things...

finally read watchmen. after hearing about it for years and then seeing the preview for the upcoming movie, i decided to read it. damn.

today was a weird sort of ending-of-things type of day. i finished re-reading the 7th harry potter, watched the last episode ever of star trek the next generation (season 7, btw), and read watchmen. i haven't had a day like that in a while.

i should be going to bed, but after all these endings, i feel sort of cast loose. maybe i'll root around in my bookshelves for an old standby. gibson?

fanatically,
S