run for the dictionary, everyone!

there are 2 "d" sounds in Wednesday.

wendz-day

not according to the OED :)


anyway, waht to you mean "run" -a tru wordophile alwats has the two-volume Shorter Oxford within arms-reach

discussion re: "often" --

http://www.englishforums.com/English...vbpwk/post.htm

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/often.html

I've always said Wed-ns-day

but the first d comes before the n

how else would you pronounce it?

in spelling, but not in pronunciation.

eta: okay my dictionary does not list the first d in pronunciation. says: wenz-da.

I think when I pronounce it, there is a soft d sound in there before, or as part of the z sound.

okay, this is the note on pronunciation of often from my Random House unabridged:

bollocks. that's just incorrect -like saying "nucular"

well, I don't say, "wed-nes-day" or anything. see my eta above.

cloud is mildly irritating me today. mildly being the key word.

yup. wenzday. :)

Shall we start on Connecticut? :lol:

Oh, we're going back on topic are we?

In that case mmy hair is mildy irritating me. And my eczema.

I'll take my licks, jimbob.

yeah! bad hair day! (with relief)

bala cyndwyd

Wow, you should meet my student... I started tutoring for a local adult literacy program last year. The guy they paired me with has a heavy South Philly accent, and he leaves out a lot of consonants. So first becomes firs', last becomes las', etc. It took some time to get used to. I mean, use to.

So... pronouncing the "t" is an affectation...

But using "sans" is just plain folks? :angel:

having a large vocabulary is an asset, not an affectation.

(sticks out tongue)

I know! I know! I'm a wordnerd. I admit it--and that's the first step to getting help!

Oh hey, I'm with you, I like to drag my large vocabulary out, whenever I have a chance.

But not as much as I like to be snarky!

we have a large vocab because we read SF!

for the rest of you Philistines . . . just kidding!

.

I'm really sleepy.
I bought some fondue cheese a while back and decided to have it last night. I was going to eke it out over 3 days, which fits in well with the ehalthy pay-day shop I have planned for Monday - no temptations left in the house.

It was horrible. It tasted bizarrely as if someone had added some big glugs of cheap & nasty vodka to it. I gave up quite quickly and tipped it away. And that's a big thing for me - to actually waste food.

Then later I was hungry and cooked some spicy chicken fillets - not all that bad, but not really health food.

Anyway, the upshot is I got terrible acid reflux when I went to bed. I was awake and in pain for a long time, no indigestion medicine or tablets in the house. I was even tempted to go & ask HM if he'd go to the 24hr supermarket for me - but I knew I would be so upset if he declined it wasn't worth the risk.

I estimate I had about 4 hours sleep in the end :scream:

Thats about par for me lately - 4 hrs sleep. I'm so not getting used to it.

had to throw away my entire makeup collection today because my sink area was infested with mold. the black kind.

spent $100 on new stuff. (can't re-stock everything right away!); which was kinda fun.

but -- bought a new mirror, got it home, out of the box--cracked. so--back to Target again. ratso!

1 year old has been sick for four days now. will only sleep if he's able to sit up, hugging my chest. yes, that sounds sweet, but it also means that I haven't really slept in 4 freaking days.

9 hours last night, thanks for asking.


this is what is mildly irritating me today: Cloud and Cicero seem eerily similar to me---like maybe the same person, though I know they are not.

::quiet:: ::looks up::
Sorry your false perception is irritating you.

Not that Clouder and I don't have things in common, and Clouder is cool.....but ::buzzer::

We are both awesome (I know I am and so far I think Clouder is)....Why would you be irritated by our mutual awesome?

we are soul sistahs!

Oh and FYI: I don't think Cloud is the bitch that I can be. oh and impatient, judgemental, harsh, vindicitve, and sanctimonious.
;)

Oh, I can be all that. Except vindictive. I don't believe in being mean.

And we're close geographically, too! I really must get up to Santa Fe again soon. Maybe I'll get the other boob pierced while I'm up there.

Typing my 12 yr olds 4 page math assignment at 6:15 this morning because she had to leave for school in 30 minutes, and was at this point still unfed, in jammies, etc. Oh and what else was irritating? That high pitched shriek that only pre-pubescent girls can achieve, at 6:14 when she remembered the assignment.

What do you mean?!? Nothing to see here move along!!:D
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lol!!!

We aren't even trying!! I can't tell you what it is...but we share a name too...right Clouder?!?
lol!!!
I prefer to just be called "eerie" rather than "eerily alike".

If it makes you feel better, mine would have gone to school, not handed it in. Once the assignment showed up in the handy online grade report, she would then claim she didn't know she had to do it, wasn't sure if she had handed it in, had done it but it was in her locker, that she was pretty sure she gave it to the teacher, that she showed it to us last week don't we remember we must have lost it, that it's all stupid anyway because she's going to drop out of school as soon as she's able.

your own irritation at being called similar is more entertaining than my own "perception"

doors, baby, doors....the Doors of Perception, man. Be coool, man, be coool>










hoping joke will be gotten...if not...to the Giant Clam!

Refer to post 274 please.
:D
That took like 2 seconds for me to put together...hate to have the wasted effortlessness.

OMG! I'm going to have fricken' nightmares about giant clams coming through doors now. Thanks a lot!

Ms. Cic is obviously much cuter and younger! If meaner . . .

:D
Nu-uh. Maybe younger.....maybe meaner...but I don't think cuter. I think that's going a little far.....Too much makeup in that photo. I had to pick it because we have the same color shirt on. Besides:Younger isn't always a good thing. In fact, it might even hurt the worst when it matters the most.

(lifts up nose. or is that looks down nose?) It's beneath my dignity as a "older" lady to engage in one-upgirlship on the age or cuteness issue.

and I love your pic Cic!

:D
It's both...I know because I am doing it.

my what fascinating nostrils you have, my dear!

You're both cute as buttons. :)

Cat shit on my bed.

Is Bipolar getting diagnosed more often these days?

Wow, yes actually I do feel better, although that will probably hit us next year

Black coffee, white tea
Is that so hard to grasp?

Why do I keep getting white coffee?
I only have one caffeinated drink a day and I don't want it with milk in!
Damnit.

Wow. I was just having a bizarrely stupid and random conversation with someone about how it seems everyone is bipolar these days. Then we went on to imagine a scenario involving a former coworker who was diagnosed with multiple personalities... and we were cracked up over the idea of each of her personalities being diagnosed with different issues such as bipolar disorder. Yep, we're sick and wrong.:o

I'm as guilty as you lookout.
Someone I worked with was diagnosed as bi-polar and my first response was, "And I don't like either of them." I then realised it was a schizophrenic joke (:blush:) but it made my friend laugh herself silly anyway.

That's a Multiple Personality joke. lol!!

See, this proves we were meant to make wild monkey love....doesnt it?

Today's irritant, some journalist guy was on Talk of the Nation complaining about the Disney girl's pictures in Vanity Fair. He's concerned because his 4 year old watches her show. Dear Dad, turn off the damn tv. Disney will over-sexualize young girls. That is how they make their money. Why is your child watching that crap if you are concerned with morals?

Last night I dreamed I was bi-polar.
Sounds like the first line of a song! But is the literal truth.

Very disturbing, especially in the dream I'd been tryingto hold it all together, not wanting to put my family through all the upset they felt when I told them I had depression.

Still, my brother was knighted in my dream, so it wasn't all bad.

My eBay goodies didn't arrive today.
A pair of shoes I know was posted yesterday - and which I wanted to break in for the weekend.
And my corset - which isn't yet showing payment received, so may not even get to me in time now.

It sounds silly, but after the post arrived I felt so let down because they weren't in it.
I cheered up as the day went on - I've had a great day at work and am alone tonight. Tomorrow shouldn't have the same downer though. I'm going in early because an artist needs access, so I'm leaving early and therefore getting my hair cut Thursday instead of Saturday. So whatever happens I'll be feeling good about that.

If my corset doesn't arrive by Friday however I'm moving off the irritated thread and taking up residence in the upset thread. I ordered it on MONDAY! It will quite spoil my plans. Lazy, lazy corset makers.

and they call the wind . . .
 

well, we sure don't call it "Mariah" here. Mostly we call it son of a bitch, you fucker, and other assorted epithets. We get

WIND

here. And it blows half of New Mexico into our faces. Everyone at work is going around squinting, because the dust gets into our eyes, aggravates allergies, etc.

Bah!

Wow Cloud I know exactly what you mean. It blows so hard here it is killing our garden, and the dust factor is horrible, can't ever keep the house dusted, even with dual pane windows.

uh. . . dusted? whazzat?

I think I have an addiction to soda. It's like that Simpsons episode where they grow tomacco...you don't like the shit, but you can't stop drinking it. Seriously...I don't really enjoy the taste of regular soda anymore...it just doesn't taste that good. And yet, I keep fucking drinking it...like I might find the golden can of Dr Pepper that actually tastes like I remember it.

Jesus H. Christ...this shit drives me nuts!

Until a couple days ago, it hadn't rained around here for some time. And there was a lot of blustery early spring weather. So it was horrible at the kids' ball games, with the wind just blowing clouds of dust up from the diamond.

I have in past years given up alcohol for Lent, and I've given up soda. Soda was a million times harder. (I've mostly kicked the habit. I was down to not drinking it any except at lunch, and now I've replaced my lunch Pepsi with seltzer.)

Lent?

Wasn't Easter a million years ago?


EDIT: Never mind, I'm a total idiot. Apparently i need to make my tea extra stong this morning. . .

I got to this point awhile back, and then I discovered the magic of sweetened iced tea. That's what I'm addicted to now instead, except I like it. :)