a tragic realization: I am a big nerd
Nov. 11th, 2004 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elsajeniSo there's some ad running on Yahoo!News (that exclamation point, by the way, makes me want to hurt someone) that has a shiny purple background and the words "All your...", with things like "news" and so forth periodically appearing in the space after the ellipsis. (Hah. Am English major. Know stupid fancy words like "ellipsis" and "litotes.")
... Is it a bad sign that I sat there watching it for several minutes, waiting for "base" to appear?
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Also, Jane Austen caused me to take an impromptu nap this afternoon, which led to me waking up on the couch at around 4:00 and becoming convinced that it was tomorrow morning. Took me ten minutes to notice that all the lights were on in the bedrooms, implying that it was not, in fact, morning (because we tend to leave the lights out in the mornings; stumbling around in the dark is preferable to stumbling around blinded by overbright lights), and then a further ten minutes to figure out what the hell I was doing on the couch. Stupid boring Emma.
I've made a bet with one of the other Elizabeths in my English class that Emma ends up marrying Mr Knightley. He's rich, they don't like each other, and his brother married her sister. It's a sure thing.
... Is it a bad sign that I sat there watching it for several minutes, waiting for "base" to appear?
Also, Jane Austen caused me to take an impromptu nap this afternoon, which led to me waking up on the couch at around 4:00 and becoming convinced that it was tomorrow morning. Took me ten minutes to notice that all the lights were on in the bedrooms, implying that it was not, in fact, morning (because we tend to leave the lights out in the mornings; stumbling around in the dark is preferable to stumbling around blinded by overbright lights), and then a further ten minutes to figure out what the hell I was doing on the couch. Stupid boring Emma.
I've made a bet with one of the other Elizabeths in my English class that Emma ends up marrying Mr Knightley. He's rich, they don't like each other, and his brother married her sister. It's a sure thing.
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Date: 2004-11-11 07:51 am (UTC)I am less nerdy than you, because although I recongnize the words 'ellipsis' and 'litotes', I have forgotten what they mean.
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Date: 2004-11-11 10:54 am (UTC)... I don't know what litotes is. I know how to pronounce it, though. "Lie-TOTES."
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Date: 2004-11-11 12:58 pm (UTC)We are losers. Move zig.
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Date: 2004-11-11 02:38 pm (UTC)Also, I like that book. *Pouts*
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Date: 2004-11-11 03:06 pm (UTC)Aw. Do you like that book for roughly the same reason I have a soft spot for Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice?
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Date: 2004-11-11 03:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-11 05:30 pm (UTC)When I was little, my best friend was named Jane. We thought this was amazing.
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Date: 2004-11-14 03:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-14 06:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-15 07:38 pm (UTC)That is, indeed, kind of amazing. Aw, now I wish I had had a friend named Jane. Or a boyfriend named Fitzwilliam, that would work too.