Revamping glee lexicon and being panda eyed
I have decided I overuse eee!, squee! and glee! and yay! (Overused Words of Glee) I'm not sure when I started to find eee! frustrating but I I see it everywhere now and it has become as distracting as the ubiquitous ... dot dot dot disease which I also suffer from but, I think that dot dot dot disease is far harder to shake off.
So the challenge for the day is to come up with onomatopoeic representations of joy that allow me to expunge the Overused Words of Glee and properly express my feelings. I suppose the thing is that once they get overused, they're more like an automatic reaction like 'how are you', 'fine', 'how are you?' than a genuine way to express: "I am really happy about that".
eg:
I saw a movie today
Ee!
I read a book today
Eee!
I got out of bed today
Eee!
I hate to say it, but the ee! has lost its glee and become a reflex reaction without any significance.
Problem is, while I have discussed the notion of expressing frabulous joy and callooh callaying in other languages - I'm not sure sure those are viable options for expressions of glee.
Nonetheless, I think I can do it. I successfully eradicated my habit of beginning a sentence with: "so" eg:
"So, I was just reading LJ and blah blah" and "so, I was thinking about watching blah blah blah". I have been less successful with eliminating my overuse of the word 'anyway' as a subject changer, but that's a hard one!
Anyway I'd best be off to work. I got home past midnight last night so I'm so Panda Eyed beyond belief.
The problem is, despite being incredibly busy, in a fit of very stupid altruism, I offered to run a training course on transaction management / project management for the juniors.
In the long run it should save me work because if they know why they're doing things and what the purpose is, the work product should be better. Most people just throw the juniors in and don't actually explain anything so the work product ends up being weird. The only thing is, it was very rash of me to volunteer to give a briefing. While I enjoy making power point presentations and summarising ideas - I HATE public presentations and public speaking more than you can imagine. So this really is an act of stupid do-goodliness because as soon as I get in front of an audience and see their eyes staring up at me with fish-like attentiveness, I feel an urge to scamper for the hills as fast as I can.
Those people who told me that it would get better with time and practice? They lied! It didn't! :D I just pray I don't make a fool of myself because my intentions are good :P
So the challenge for the day is to come up with onomatopoeic representations of joy that allow me to expunge the Overused Words of Glee and properly express my feelings. I suppose the thing is that once they get overused, they're more like an automatic reaction like 'how are you', 'fine', 'how are you?' than a genuine way to express: "I am really happy about that".
eg:
I saw a movie today
Ee!
I read a book today
Eee!
I got out of bed today
Eee!
I hate to say it, but the ee! has lost its glee and become a reflex reaction without any significance.
Problem is, while I have discussed the notion of expressing frabulous joy and callooh callaying in other languages - I'm not sure sure those are viable options for expressions of glee.
Nonetheless, I think I can do it. I successfully eradicated my habit of beginning a sentence with: "so" eg:
"So, I was just reading LJ and blah blah" and "so, I was thinking about watching blah blah blah". I have been less successful with eliminating my overuse of the word 'anyway' as a subject changer, but that's a hard one!
Anyway I'd best be off to work. I got home past midnight last night so I'm so Panda Eyed beyond belief.
The problem is, despite being incredibly busy, in a fit of very stupid altruism, I offered to run a training course on transaction management / project management for the juniors.
In the long run it should save me work because if they know why they're doing things and what the purpose is, the work product should be better. Most people just throw the juniors in and don't actually explain anything so the work product ends up being weird. The only thing is, it was very rash of me to volunteer to give a briefing. While I enjoy making power point presentations and summarising ideas - I HATE public presentations and public speaking more than you can imagine. So this really is an act of stupid do-goodliness because as soon as I get in front of an audience and see their eyes staring up at me with fish-like attentiveness, I feel an urge to scamper for the hills as fast as I can.
Those people who told me that it would get better with time and practice? They lied! It didn't! :D I just pray I don't make a fool of myself because my intentions are good :P