Posting in the middle of the day feels strange to me, but it seems that with all the time I spend chauffeuring my daughter around, I should use the time wisely. Posting my random thoughts and embarrassing moments seems like time well spent.
Why do people swear so much? I really hate it. I can't hear a swear word and not react, at least a little bit. It might just be a brief halt in my thought process, turning my head to see who the offender is, or just closing my eyes, but it just never sits well with me. Maybe that's why I could never watch the Sopranos. I'm sure it was a great, well-written and acted show, but all that cussin'!!! Eewww.....
I find myself in the student center of a local college today and you know that I'm suffering. Since when did the "F" word become a verb, noun, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjunction? You'd think in an educational environment, one's vocabulary would be both stimulated and increased. While it's possible, I really don't think that they learned that word when they got here, but rather realized that it fills a multitude of grammatical needs and therefore decided that their time would be better spent on Math or Science. Cutting down on the vocab development also leaves time for socializing in the student center, providing more opportunities to use the multi-tasking "F" word.
I learned a lot from the "Rock" shows of the 70's. I still remember my multiplication tables by singing (to myself...usually) "Zero, My Hero", "Figure Eight" and "Three is a Magic Number". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4pyiB-kq0 I especially liked the hippie family--you know, A man and a woman had a little baby...when I was 13 they seemed like hippies to me, running through the flowers and all...
I still sing (with great zeal) "I'm Just a Bill". That was one cool bill. Jazzy. Raspy, soulful voice. I should go back and listen to see if I'm remembering that correctly, but as a kid, yeah. Sounded like jazz to me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFroMQlKiag
In the 90's these shows were revived with both old and new episodes. I'm thinking that the majority of these students were raised in the 90's. I know my kids watched them. Saturday morning, stuck right between the cartoons, how could they not? Maybe these young adults (no excuse for the professor that joined them between classes, trying his best to be "down" with the students, ponytail and all. Actually he was kinda cute...until he opened his mouth. He was probably raised in the 80's, during the "Rock" shows hiatus. Poor guy probably never had the Saturday t.v./school experience.) didn't have television. That would explain it. If they HAD, they would know that "A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZRj5IfAyjU. They'd also know their "Interjections!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e24kdjdbtw and they would have made at least six trips to "Conjunction Junction", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zFS7TFzlro, possibly sung by the raspy-voiced Bill. I think he got tired of sitting on Capitol Hill (I know I would!) and headed down to the Junction where things are decidedly jazzier. All that hooking up words and phrases and clauses sounds a lot more fun that sitting around waiting for Congress to act...I'm just saying.
It's getting close to lunchtime and the place is filling up. The multi-tasking is intensifying. Next time, I'm bringing headphones. Or earplugs.
p.s. I realize that this blog isn't written in APA format, or any recognized format at all, but I write the way I think. (Some shrink is going to have a field day with that comment.) I don't however, use the "F" word, so I'm guessing you won't have to cringe while you read. I'll shoot for cringe-worthy another time. But I still won't be using that word.
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