|
Post by Mister Buch on Nov 3, 2010 3:23:49 GMT 1
I signed in to type 'lol' at Pick a Name Already.
|
|
|
Post by ommadawn on Nov 5, 2010 0:06:35 GMT 1
You've lost me, good sir.
|
|
|
Post by Battlechantress on Nov 5, 2010 0:13:47 GMT 1
The other day, I changed it to 'Oh pick a name already'. Yesterday, it was 'chia seed' (it was late and I was reading about them online). Today, it's... well you can see for yourself. I'll eventually go back to the original name. I'm a mixture of stressed, exhausted and silly from... stuff right now (writing 50K words in 30 days is hard. Doing it when dealing with non- writing stuff on the level that I'm having to is tougher still) so I just don't feel like it right now.
|
|
|
Post by jklinders on Nov 5, 2010 2:22:55 GMT 1
For God's sake Chantress don't go killing yourself. *Says the guy who is finding writing 500 words right now troubling.
|
|
|
Post by Mister Buch on Nov 6, 2010 1:48:06 GMT 1
Writing in a hurry is bloody hard! Keep at it, No-Name Jones.
|
|
|
Post by ommadawn on Nov 7, 2010 23:27:41 GMT 1
You go, girl. Remember to take a break though!
|
|
|
Post by Battlechantress on Nov 17, 2010 5:28:18 GMT 1
Didn't get 30K as planned but it wasn't for lack of trying. That's okay though, I got 1700+ words down (which is better than what I did yesterday ) and I have notes for what I plan to write about tomorrow (Wednesdays are when I sit with the Alphasmart for half a day at least and crank out a bunch of crap anyway). Speaking of crap, I thought this word of the day from the fine folks at the Miriam-Webster Dictionary site was most appropriate for some of us : crapulous- 1: marked by intemperance especially in eating or drinking 2: sick from excessive indulgence in liquor Example: "Most of the guests were still crapulous from the previous night's bacchic revelry." Etymology: '...derived from the Late Latin adjective "crapulosus," which in turn traces back to the Latin word "crapula," meaning "intoxication." "Crapula" itself comes from a much older Greek word for the headache one gets from drinking.' Fun useless trivia: '"Crapulous" first appeared in print in 1536. Approximately 200 years later, its close cousin "crapulence" arrived on the scene as a word for sickness caused by drinking. "Crapulence" later acquired the meaning "great intemperance especially in drinking," but it is not an especially common word.' So I'm sure I'll be using that word to describe myself on December 1st after I hit 50K+ words and have a long date night with Captain Morgan.
|
|
|
Post by jklinders on Nov 17, 2010 14:01:01 GMT 1
Just remember that the real Captain Morgan more or less died from crapulous. There's a reason they named a brand of rum after him.
|
|
|
Post by Battlechantress on Nov 17, 2010 15:43:37 GMT 1
Well yes but I've been good about not drinking at all this month. I think one night isn't going to do me in unless I do something incredibly stupid....
|
|
|
Post by jklinders on Nov 17, 2010 18:41:11 GMT 1
Well yes but I've been good about not drinking at all this month. I think one night isn't going to do me in unless I do something incredibly stupid.... True that. Morgan died young mainly because every time his bottle was empty he picked up another one. He probably drank more in a typical night than you and I ever drink in a year. But hell, he earned it by sacking Panama, who else in his day had the balls to try that?
|
|
|
Post by lieden on Nov 19, 2010 8:34:29 GMT 1
Hey, cheer up. There are people who can't drink.
|
|
|
Post by Mister Buch on Nov 20, 2010 0:59:35 GMT 1
JK, are you telling me that Captain Morgan was a real person?
|
|
|
Post by jklinders on Nov 20, 2010 2:19:13 GMT 1
JK, are you telling me that Captain Morgan was a real person? Dear God man, not only was he real but he was English too. Spent a short term as governor of Jamaica after retiring from his...ahem perfectly legitimate enterprise. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgan Tells the story better than I can
|
|
|
Post by Battlechantress on Nov 22, 2010 5:33:46 GMT 1
10116 words left to go (though I might get more than that before the month ends). Just need to keep sick patients from getting sick on me....
And do YOU know what an "escutcheon" is? Or a "pilcrow"?
|
|
|
Post by jklinders on Nov 22, 2010 14:11:56 GMT 1
I never ran across the word pilcrow before. So ya got me there. Escutcheon was a word I may have seen 3 times in my life. The reference I had for it was nautical based but did not really know what it was. Looking it up I found it has multiple meanings depending on the context. Turns out it is the plate on a ship with it's name on it. I may have run across it as a reference to heraldry. I would never have guessed a third meaning as being a distribution of pubic hair and I find myself questioning the need for a medical term for that. Was someone really really bored while writing a medical text some afternoon?
|
|