Spring break down in Virginia was fun, if a little stressful balancing the boy and the parents. I have found a marvelous apartment that my future roommate and I both love, and life is pretty good right now. Since this is sort of knuckle-cracking blogging before I start on a larger project tonight, I'll be brief:
two words I love and a word I do not:
subtle: As a physicist this word has fantastic connotations far beyond just the dictionary definition. In physics, if a problem is "subtle" it really means "fantastically difficult to understand or even think about properly."
nuance, nuanced: A word that looks lovely on the page (I love the 'ua' combination) and one that gives me problematic mental images, ones that refuse to be articulated. There's a hand gesture of sorts, a manual sketching of a graph with a point of inflection, but also a sense of the curve of a woman's lower abdomen and pelvis.
important: I hate this word when people throw it around in literature discussion to justify the reading or the enforced reading by others of works which suck. If something is important, it should also be good. Period. If it is important enough to say, then it is important enough to say well, in a manner which people will want to read. This attitude frequently gets me nowhere when arguing with, say, history professors.
two more facts about me:
101) I know all the words to two national anthems (ours and Israel's; yes, in Hebrew, no, I'm not Jewish)
102) but can only sing the alto part. If you ask me how the tune of the Star-Spangled Banner goes, I will not be able to tell you.
two songs that would make my all-time greatest songs ever recorded list:
1) Sweet Home Alabama ~ Lynard Skynard
2) Love You Madly ~ Cake
two fictional characters I would totally do if only they were real:
1) Lex Luthor
2) Jack Shaftoe
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