Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Briefly

Strange things about today:

1) A sudden hatred of the word "snark" and all its permutations: "snarky," "snarkiness," "snark-fest," etc. This word is finished; this word should never have started.

2) I received literally no e-mail today. That's plain weird.

3) I went to write something down—on, you know, actual paper with an actual scribbling implement—and spent a good six to eight minutes looking for a pen that was not a Sharpie. What kind of writer cannot find a pen in under fifteen seconds?

4) I keep wondering—as in I am unable to free myself of the question—if Johnny Depp (as Willie Wonka) will utter that Shakespeare quote from the original C & the CF: "So shines a good deed in a weary world." And while we're on the subject...Is it raining? Is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing?

5) There are other odd little things about today, but they're even more banal than the previous four, so I'll spare you.

I think my best course of action at the moment would be to vacuum. Off I go.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm so out of the loop. What does snark mean?

ver said...

And here it is...more than you ever needed to know about "snark."

Gura said...

you mean not a single piece of email, including spam? that's a twilight zone moment.

ver said...

I did get Spam. Spam and advertising. It was so sad. And then after reading this pitiful post, my Auntie G. sent me an e-mail.