Vocab morning

Overheard on the bus this morning: "By an amazing stroke of prescience, I managed to leave about thirty seconds before the bus arrived."

'Prescience'! Someone used 'prescience' in an actual conversational sentence! I love college kids.

Spike through the head

Rest in Peace will just not stop running through my head. Seriously. It doesn't help, I suppose that I just printed out the lyrics so I can figure out how to sing it right instead of just repeating the chorus over and over and over and...

Beauty Myth is pissing me off. Seriously. Written ten years ago, and still, still relevant, and that both scares and angers me. Ten years, and I don't know how much has changed, and worse, how much has stayed the same. I keep bringing it to work to read during lunch, but I couldn't even keep it open for ten minutes yesterday before closing it.

I don't want to rail at the world for being unfair. I hate being angry - happy is a good feeling on me, and this book just punctures so much of my happy little world view.

And at the same time, I just want to be an action figure. I want to shoot guns and swing swords and slay dragons when I'm not riding them Pern-style. But that's not this gut-deep burn of anger.

So in my usual evasionist style, I'm going to start the LotR triology today. And maybe hum along to RiP while I'm at it.