Hey everyone.
I am back from the mini-trip around Saskatchewan. It was lots of fun, but reaffirmed a few of my endearingly hilariously unfortunate traits (actually, I am probably the only person who finds them hilarious or endearing, but there is a certain irony, for sure!)
I wish I could spend today scoping out people with really interesting features and cataloguing them (and, of course, recording their silly conversations for future use!), but I think I get to do homework instead.
I am tired of using phrases like "central themes" and "important aspects" because they already sound like clichés... and maybe they are, but I end up using them, regardless. Language is funny that way. Oppressive, a bit, maybe. Once someone (or a large number of people) start(s) using certain words too much it gets lame, and then we have to change them, but there are only so many acceptably useful words, so we get screwed over a bit. If you start changing your words too much, you have to change meaning (durrr), and you have to change audience. I guess two tiny words don't mean so much in the grande ole scale of context, but I get bored with these common turns of phrases, and then frustrated when nothing I put together conveys what I actually want to say (not that the clichés do, just that they seem more approachable and understandable). I'm not even writing this paper, and I'm frustrated.
Sometimes words don't fit together like I think they should. Overwhelmingly general statement, I know. But general statements apply to more things, anyway, so for the sake of... accuracy? I like the wording.
I almost wish I could just puke up meaning. It would be disgusting, but maybe people would understand what I were trying to say. ;) People probably don't want to hang out with the girl who vomits all her epiphanies, but if I used my super-power sparingly...
I wish I could spend today scoping out people with really interesting features and cataloguing them (and, of course, recording their silly conversations for future use!), but I think I get to do homework instead.
I am tired of using phrases like "central themes" and "important aspects" because they already sound like clichés... and maybe they are, but I end up using them, regardless. Language is funny that way. Oppressive, a bit, maybe. Once someone (or a large number of people) start(s) using certain words too much it gets lame, and then we have to change them, but there are only so many acceptably useful words, so we get screwed over a bit. If you start changing your words too much, you have to change meaning (durrr), and you have to change audience. I guess two tiny words don't mean so much in the grande ole scale of context, but I get bored with these common turns of phrases, and then frustrated when nothing I put together conveys what I actually want to say (not that the clichés do, just that they seem more approachable and understandable). I'm not even writing this paper, and I'm frustrated.
Sometimes words don't fit together like I think they should. Overwhelmingly general statement, I know. But general statements apply to more things, anyway, so for the sake of... accuracy? I like the wording.
I almost wish I could just puke up meaning. It would be disgusting, but maybe people would understand what I were trying to say. ;) People probably don't want to hang out with the girl who vomits all her epiphanies, but if I used my super-power sparingly...