Jehu: this words just means a crazy driver. It's the name of a crazy king and charioteer in the bible.
Pulchritude: this word is great because it sounds nothing like what it means. A girl in my ward asked me how she looked and I told her she looked "pulchritudinous." She almost cried before the dictionary saved the day.
Oh, and the word means "beautiful." Honestly, I don't see why we're so fascinated with Latin. That's an extremely ugly word and it's all Latin's fault.
In other news I haven't posted much lately because I was busy having what might be considered a nervous breakdown. Basically, I holed myself up for a while and didn't do anything (socially at least)...trying to simplify life a bit. It was sorta like Walden, but instead of going out into nature I troglodyted it up.
In other news, I'm pretty excited for the fall (my favorite season). Fall is beautiful in Provo. The trees are all yellows, oranges, and reds. and the weather is crisp. Also, hot chocolate tastes better, I I can find more flavors of eggnog at the store, and the holidays are on the horizon.
It's the perfect season.
On a side note....it bothers me that we don't capitalize seasons. We capitalize the days of the week for heaven's sake...why not the seasons?
Speaking of season names. What's everyone's opinion on "fall" and "autumn.' I think autumn is a more beautiful sounding word, but fall is more descriptive sounding word (leaves falling and all). Most other English speaking countries call the season "autumn." I guess we silly Americans wanna be special.
Oh, and I really missed the time change this year. Yesterday I woke up to my (uncorrected) alarm at 7 o'clock (really 6 o'clock) and rushed and got ready to make it to church by 8 (really 7) for a meeting.
I thought I was 4 minutes late so I just went right into the door and I walked right into the bishopric meeting that happens right before the meeting I'm supposed to go to.
So, I walked right in on the bishop having a meeting and I started my introduction by apologizing for being late. The bishop looked at the clock and said "do you know what time it is?" I said "Well, by the looks on all your faces, and by the fact that no one else is here, and since you thought to ask me that question...probably not."
He then explained that I lost an hour of sleep for no reason. It was a hard piece of information to take. My frustration at my lost sleep overpowered my embarrassment and I left the room to take a nap for an hour.
To make things worse, when the meeting finally did start up, another person walked in (this was a day for interrupted meetings). This guy was from the stake and he needed pictures of everyone with leadership callings so they could be put on the stake president's wall. The problem was that I hadn't shaved (I thought I was late after all).
When the guy came into the room the bishop looked at me and laughed and said "Well, this isn't a good day for you!"
I posed for the picture and then asked the guy if he wanted to photoshop me clean shaven. He laughed (guess he assumed I was joking). Oh well, I guess I'll just be the one scruffy face on the president's wall.
Well, I better get going. I gotta get a lot of stuff done today. Thank you for making it to the end of this disjointed and rambling post.
I hope you all enjoy Fall/Autumn (I'm capitalizing them in rebellion (and screwing up capitalization throughout the rest of this post for Consistency).
Have a wonderful day.
1 comment:
I miss the Old Days of English, when authors often capitalized the Important Words regardless of their function in a Sentence.
Also, I remember learning the word 'pulchra' in Latin and thinking it was the most ill-defined word ever; I had no idea it made it into English in any form. I think Latin is horribly overrated (though not as much as it was a couple hundred years ago), so I'm all in favor of the good, English 'fall' over the silly, Latin 'autumn' with its silent n.
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