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By gzt (Sat Nov 19, 2005 at 03:17:57 PM EST) (all tags)

Tired and frivolous. I'm always tired and frivolous, but usually I can do something anyway. It's been getting bad for the past two or three days, though. I think I may have been overstimulated by my extended weekend.

Other news: a sale on Corona at the local grocery. I whored myself out to [social] science for a while and bought some. Also went to see Johnny Depp as Willie Wonka on the Big Screen. Science pays good.

That is it: I was definitely overstimulated. Less pepper on my food from now on. That should restore my humors to their proper balance.

If I'm feeling frivolous, there is only one cure: Wodehouse. Well, I'm not that frivolous. I'll read John Donne. The only proper way to read John Donne is to shout it to the east. Batter my heart! I have a properly positioned peninsula. It just isn't the same if the east isn't also The Sea. Nietzsche, too [although Jeeves says he's "fundamentally unsound"]. I've been getting visceral pleasure from the first chapter of Beyond Good and Evil. Yes! Moliere!

Two girls this week thought I was Russian and should speak Russian. This is disconcerting, since I don't do any Russophile things around these girls. I talk about Estonian music with one [she's part Estonian and runs a classical music show on the radio and has never heard of Arvo Part!] and how we should run off to Alaska and get married with the other [Old Calendar girl, not the Russian one, she knows I'm not Russian].

The wonderful thing about learning history is that it frees you from a blind historicism and a slavish devotion to the present. Everything is more sensible. I'm not so good at the twiddling details of history, but even a good understanding of the big picture is liberating. I should have plundered that course in the history of science for all that it was worth, in retrospect. I learned so much that was of value, but I could have learned more. Moliere!

Perhaps I should learn Russian. If available young ladies think I ought to, I shouldn't disappoint them. It does come in handy in my circles.

Langston Hughes is a rockstar.

Oh my, all this typing, I think I'm being overstimulated...

Oh my! Though vs. although: when?

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note to prospective commenters: by rmg (2.00 / 1) #1 Sat Nov 19, 2005 at 04:15:59 PM EST

anyone who makes off-color remarks about the phrase "properly positioned peninsula" will be zeroed. repeatedly.

that is all.

[t]rolling retards conversation, period.

OOOOOPS! WRONG ACCOUNT by ammoniacal (2.66 / 3) #4 Sat Nov 19, 2005 at 05:31:19 PM EST

You should've used Preview, n00b. Gotcha.

Irony: ammo says it's time. Tom is blocked.
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: actually, you got it wrong by nathan (2.00 / 0) #11 Mon Nov 21, 2005 at 06:55:28 PM EST

I am rmg, duh.

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oh yes, though vs. although. by rmg (2.00 / 0) #2 Sat Nov 19, 2005 at 04:24:49 PM EST

in practice, i almost always use "though," which is a bad thing to do because it's stylistically unsound and an easy thing to identify.

i guess in situations where both are grammatical, one should make the selection to preserve iambic meter and preserve an even distribution of the two.

then again, i'm no great stylist.

[t]rolling retards conversation, period.

You really wanted to be caught? by calla (2.00 / 0) #6 Sun Nov 20, 2005 at 12:46:01 PM EST

'cuz once could be an honest mistake - but twice using your dupe account seems as if you really want folks to notice.

"However, for this current diary to be genuine would have obliged her to read my Sam's Teach Yourself Unix Adminstration in 24 Hours, which is both disturbing and super erotic." Rogerborg
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What on earth are you talking about? by gzt (2.00 / 0) #7 Sun Nov 20, 2005 at 02:52:31 PM EST

Is there some subtext I'm missing?

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gzt/rmg by calla (2.00 / 0) #8 Sun Nov 20, 2005 at 06:24:39 PM EST

you know

"However, for this current diary to be genuine would have obliged her to read my Sam's Teach Yourself Unix Adminstration in 24 Hours, which is both disturbing and super erotic." Rogerborg
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: it's a free country... by gzt (2.00 / 0) #9 Sun Nov 20, 2005 at 06:26:23 PM EST

...and you can believe what you want, but mr. rmg has a history of acting as the guardian of the standards of my diary and, well, is wont to reply to my posts.

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: what gzt said. by rmg (2.00 / 0) #10 Sun Nov 20, 2005 at 10:36:55 PM EST

i wouldn't want to have to zero you "too," so please cease this Unproductive line of discussion.

[t]rolling retards conversation, period.
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Please to be introducing me to young ladies. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #3 Sat Nov 19, 2005 at 05:09:35 PM EST

Particularly as you're too timid to tell them your affections. Or if not too timid for that, at least too timid to actually sweep them away and elope to Alaska to get married.

One of the large parishes in Alaska was advertising for a full time teacher a few months ago. It looked lovely.

Oh, and if you can make it to UKia for the weekend of western easter, I promise to introduce you to lots of lovely young ladies. Who may well not expect you to speak russian. And only a several of whom will be Julian calendarists.

my dictionary by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #5 Sun Nov 20, 2005 at 09:17:10 AM EST

defines "though" as "although". I kid you not.

You seem over stimulated. Have you considered absinthe for your nerves? Laudanaum?

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