April 05, 2004
whoa. this has to stop.
Thinking too much. That's what I've been doing. And it's tiring me out. So it has to stop. Not all thinking, but certainly some of it.
For example, I will continue thinking about what ice cream favorites I like best (I do believe it is mint chocolate chip, but not from Breyers. No matter how natural it may be, the texture is mealy and repellant. It's called ice cream for a reason. And that reason has nothing to do with mealiness.)
I'm not sure mealiness is a word. Or maybe it should have two Ls.
There's another thought. Should I have written L's? Like when a person wants to say that he bought a CD or two and he really wants to just make CD plural, should it be CDs or CD's? I'm firmly in the "CDs" camp, but many people I respect and even like, those people use the apostrophe. What does a person make of that?
Maybe this is why I'm tired. Is that possible? There's too much wrapped up in these questions. The CD issue turned into quite a quagmire of a quandary. Should I be peeved with people for using anappropriate grammar when I'm the only one who has deemed it inappropriate? Should I do research or not? If I do research, that might mean that I'm a snooty (true), discriminatory (I'd like to think that's false), obsessive (duh) freak (in the nicest possible way). If I don't do research am I relaxed or am I just lazy? I'm not sure.
All this waffling is just too much for me. I can only have so many waffles in a day. I could check how many Eggo waffles it would take, but that would really be obsessive. But now I'm wondering, since I brought it up, should I check it out?
Whoa. This has to stop.
Posted by dotty at April 5, 2004 05:23 PM