slightly dispiriting realizations

[aesc]

1.) I think my laptop is not long for this world :( :( :( The spontaneous crashing/OMFG OPERATING SYSTEM CATASTROPHE/YOUR BIOS IS FUCKED UP, MAN!!!/BSOD messages have been coming faster and faster since they started a few days ago. I've uninstalled everything I've put on in the past month, and it doesn't seem to have made any difference. This sort of thing characterized the last days of my old laptop, so I am not very hopeful at this point.

2.) I have no butt. I put on a pair of new jeans today and looked in the mirror, and they fit everywhere, except my butt, where instead of a butt there is something approaching a concavity. Why? Why? I am curvy almost everywhere else, except there, and you could use my butt to rule straight lines on a wall. Typically I am not very body-conscious, but this bothers me for some reason.

3.) Three days in a row it has rained.

4.) Dissertations do not, in fact, write themselves. Not to torture the poor word, but... Why? Dissertations have been around for hundreds of years; you'd figure they would have evolved to the point where they are sentient, and instead of writing one, a doctoral student would have to hunt and capture the wild dissertation, and then fend off the committee that tries to steal it. If the student can defend the dissertation from thieves/predators/committee members, then the doctorate is awarded.

5.) The word "frankly" really really bothers me. It's probably my most-disliked word ever and causes my spine to go all weird and hackle-y when I read it. "Frank" isn't much better; "Frankish" makes me squirm. I don't even like typing them.

On the other hand "salacious" is a fucking fantastic word. Salacious.



Salacious.

[eta] Although my all-time favorite word, for the record, is "sloth."

Comments

[caersmane.livejournal.com]

I have two uncles, Frank and Tim. For years I would say Timly instead of Frankly. I used to get a lot of strange looks for that.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Timly.... isn't too bad :D

[tex.livejournal.com]

Salacious is a good word. You know what word I love?

Ambivalent. Is sexy, no?

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh, ambivalent is a good word too! I like how it sort of rolls down from the stress on the second syllable, like going downhill.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Dissertations do not, in fact, write themselves. Not to torture the poor word, but... Why? Dissertations have been around for hundreds of years; you'd figure they would have evolved to the point where they are sentient, and instead of writing one, a doctoral student would have to hunt and capture the wild dissertation, and then fend off the committee that tries to steal it. If the student can defend the dissertation from thieves/predators/committee members, then the doctorate is awarded.

God, I wish. Mine's only a masters dissertation, but I would happily go into the wild and track one if it meant I didn't have to write the accursed thing.

Although... do you think masters' dissertations would be little and cute compared to doctoral ones? Like, kitten sized and fluffy, with floppy ears...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Although... do you think masters' dissertations would be little and cute compared to doctoral ones?

I don't know; I think they might end up being like the vorpal bunny in Monty Python: wee and cute and floppy, but bloodthirsty evil little buggers underneath. At least, that's how mine ended up being :D

[batdina.livejournal.com]

Dissertations do not, in fact, write themselves. Not to torture the poor word, but... Why? Dissertations have been around for hundreds of years; you'd figure they would have evolved to the point where they are sentient, and instead of writing one, a doctoral student would have to hunt and capture the wild dissertation, and then fend off the committee that tries to steal it. If the student can defend the dissertation from thieves/predators/committee members, then the doctorate is awarded.

This explains so much!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

As it stands, I feel like I'd have a pretty good chance against my committee. My co-chair, though... She's small, but I have a feeling she'd give me a run for it.

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

Aww. I have no butt, too! *solidarity fistbump* You and me and John Sheppard should start a support group. ;)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

John Sheppard can support me any time, and for any reason :> :>

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

Heee. Well yes. I just figured it would be a good excuse for us to get together and fondle his bum. ;)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

"No, no, it's affirming!"

*is also a bear of very little arse*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

You said 'firming'.

:>

[perspi.livejournal.com]

1. Oh, no! Your laptop!!! *wails*

2. How interesting! Although, I can understand how you might feel irritated about it. *hugs you* (And yes, I like the idea of comparing your tush to JF's, yea verily.)

3. *holds up umbrella*
*opens transdimensional portal to my house, where it is sunny and breezy and wonderful*

4. *dies laughing*
You know, that would have been SO MUCH EASIER than my dissertation defense, I think. I'm scrappy that way.

5. I once did words-of-the-day for an entire semester, and put them on exams for extra credit. Big $5 words, like defenestrate and schadenfreude and salubrious and growlery. I love big weird words. I think you will love this site (http://phrontistery.info/), especially the Compendium of Lost Words.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

2. Seriously, it's a good thing I have hips, otherwise I would be the same position as JF, with the tugging.

3. YAYYYYYY *leaps through*

4. I am pretty sure I could take at least one of my directors. The co-director, though... she's small, but I have a feeling she'd go for the physical (as well as the intellectual) jugular.

5. Growlery!!! I have never heard of that word. It sounds like a place you'd go to get large dogs :D But I have looked it up, and I think I need one!!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Sloth is awesome. I would have a sloth for a daemon. I really like susurrus (but I can never spell it.)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I always want to put in the extra -s-. But it sounds like what it is, doesn't it, all soft and murmury?

[madeline871.livejournal.com]

According to Oprah you're supposed to buy jeans with big flappy pockets on the butt to make it appear you have more back there.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I have tried this, and maybe it's just because I know my butt is flat, but I can't convince myself the pockets are effective. Maybe I need bigger pockets.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

I always privately entertained the belief that sloths are inherently salacious, actually. As a species. (it is the species Rodney and me both belong to, btw).

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this? :D :D :D



I always privately entertained the belief that sloths are inherently salacious, actually.

Heh, hanging out in trees doing very little is clearly a coverup :D

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

I had! I LOVE it.

See, sloths move very little, but meanwhile their brains are focused on the right (salacious) thoughts. And when they move it is purposefully!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

So that's what youthful!Rodney is thinking about when he's lounging on his couch, pretending to be reading for his dissertation!

I know that's what I think about :>

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

same here. *kicks masters thesis*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

This is why there needs to be more fic with youthful!Rodney pretending to read for his dissertation but actually

a) musing on the hotness of his roommate, John Sheppard
b) musing on the hotness of his topology professor, John Sheppard
c) musing on the hotness of John Sheppard in any capacity

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

ooh, oh, john as a topology professor; I approve!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

You just know that John talking about compactness and connectedness makes Rodney all sorts of helpless, but he's really gone when they start talking about topology as it applies to wormholes.

Rodney's in big trouble, I think.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig trouble. entire afternoons' worth of dreamy mentally salacious slothy moments on the couch! no work done! Weird erotic dreams with wormholes rippling around naked john!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Sitting through seminars are hell. Sitting in John's office going over his reading... oh god. Torture like that hasn't been invented, inside hell or out.

[dogeared.livejournal.com]

*waves from a great distance* hallo aitches ♥

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*snorfles youuuuuuu from up close!!!* ♥♥♥

[lilyfarfalla.livejournal.com]

I feel like "Frankly" is often used right when the speaker is about to say something rude. Don't know if that's why it's squeamish, but it makes me glare a bit.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

For me, it's mostly the sound of the word, but I definitely agree--it seems like something someone would say when they think they're being honest and forthright, but really, they're just being rude and kind of aggressive.

[windysame.livejournal.com]

OMG, in my time I have written many papers, 2 masters thesis' and one doctoral theses and you description of the entire of writing the damn things may have been the first time I laughed at the idea. Bless you and I do truly sympathize greatly with you. I always considered simply taking out your committee and send them on vacation. Let the TA's judge, they actually have a working idea of the proofs on the pertinent subject! Enough from me, just wishing you good luck!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Bless you and I do truly sympathize greatly with you.

I am in the very early stages (trying very hard to make myself sit down and write the proposal), but I can't help thinking that, if to get your doctorate you had to go out and tame the wild dissertation, academics would very quickly lose their reputation for being unfit and pale and dust-covered :D

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Three days in a row it has rained

You would hate the Manchester area. If we have three days in a row when it doesn't rain we dance around with glee.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Heh, I have this totally skewed picture of the UK, because every time I've gone there, it's been sunny and actually kind of nice. Even two weeks in winter, while it was pretty cold, the sun was out almost every day :D And when I went for research and wandering around, I think the only day it rained was the day I went to York, but it cleared up in the afternoon and was actually rather nice. My afternoon photographs of the cathedral are spectacular.

[elizabeth perry (from livejournal.com)]

If you ever find jeans that make your butt look like something other than a black hole, please let me know!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Heh, it might be a while :D I don't think such things exist (unless you take Oprah's advice on the big flappy back pockets).

[elizabeth perry (from livejournal.com)]

Why do people think that helps? They cave inward/em>.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Maybe because you can put stuff in the pockets? *shrugs* I am sort of skeptical when it comes to tricks like that, mostly because I know, at least with reference to myself, exactly what's going on. So to me, my butt just looks like a flat butt, only with flappy pockets.

[rilestar.livejournal.com]

1.) OH NOES! I hope you have backups of your backups.

2.) Here, HAVE SOME OF MINE! I have *plenty* to share with you and your fellow flat-bottomed flisters! And you'd be doing me a favour! (And I definitely have to wear pants that don't have pockets on the bum!)

3.) I hope you're out there, dancing in it! HOORAY FOR PUDDLES!

4.) YOU ARE A GENIUS.

5.) I can't think of any words that squick me. I think I'm more horrified by misspellings of words, rather than words themselves.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

1.) Fortunately, yes!!!!

2.) *takes gratefully!*

3.) At the moment, I am looking at it rather nervously! For it is quite ominous.

4.) *siiigh* but not a lithe, glistening sea-panther!

5.) Misspellings mostly annoy me, they don't actively make me shudder and want to write the author (even if they're dead), begging them not to use the word ever again.

The misspelling that is very rapidly becoming more than merely annoying is "should of" or "would of" instead of "should've" or "would've." Just... no words!

[kimberweeme.livejournal.com]

So I hate the word "thusly" with an intense passion. It's just so...stupid sounding. Thusly. Why? Why would you say that? Thus means essentially the same thing, guys! (I don't much approve of that word either, if I'm being honest.)

I do, however, love the word shenanigan. Say it, you'll understand. (I bet John and Rodney could get up to some entertaining shenanigans, eh?)

I am so glad that my MLS didn't require a dissertation. Instead we had to write three essays (picked from a list of 9 or so topics we hadn't previously seen, most of which had nothing to do with my area of study) in a week. That was not a good week, but it was only a week. And now I refuse to go back to school ever again.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I actually used "thusly" in a paper once, and then I stopped to look at it and was all, "What in god's name was wrong with me, that I used it????"

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

I think bandom would make you run screaming then, since everywhere you turn is FRANK! (I'm assuming it would anyway, but that's just another reason for you, I suppose ;) )

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think my dislike for "frank," with or without the capital, would permanently disqualify any man having that name from my interest. Even if he was really hot... Having him say, "Hi, my name is Frank," would be like him saying, "Hi, would you like to see my earwax collection? It goes back to when I was in third grade." Seriously.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Testing this theory!


"Hi, my name is Frank!"

I never liked the name before, myself, but now I hear the name Frank and I swoon a little bit? It's kind of a problem. *g*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Noooo, I'm sorry... The rule still stands :)