The sideways bridgy one is purty. =) And the ferries make me homesick. And I can't get over those awesome gulls. (And I really am naughty for beginning so many sentences with conjunctions. Virginia Woolf, you have given me bad habits!)
webeccy! thanks for commenting. i'd begun to think the poor bloggish had got abandoned.
p.s. i love starting sentences with conjunctions. it's one of my favoritest guilty pleasures. and i do it in my essays too... but my teacher doesn't mind. and i tucked a few in my scholarship essay too..ho hum.
Ah, you sneaky girl and your conjunctions. Unfortunately for me, my teacher does tend to mind. If I do it too much, at least. And sometimes I mind at myself when I go back and read over. So I use them plentifully in informal settings and judiciously in formal ones.
Completely by the by, do you know "ratiocination" is a word?? And I ran into it *twice* yesterday, in completely disconnected circumstances?? Now I must use it in conversation and watch people's faces . . .
Well that settles it. I definitely have to room with a girl who can talk about conjunctions as a "thrill." =)
First I bumped into it while browsing freerice.com (at Sarah's recommendation). Next thing I knew, Irving used it in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." I should be able to use it on my brother some day. He ratiocinizes quite a lote.
The sideways bridgy one is purty. =) And the ferries make me homesick. And I can't get over those awesome gulls. (And I really am naughty for beginning so many sentences with conjunctions. Virginia Woolf, you have given me bad habits!)
ReplyDeletewebeccy! thanks for commenting. i'd begun to think the poor bloggish had got abandoned.
ReplyDeletep.s. i love starting sentences with conjunctions. it's one of my favoritest guilty pleasures. and i do it in my essays too... but my teacher doesn't mind. and i tucked a few in my scholarship essay too..ho hum.
No, not abandoned. =)
ReplyDeleteAh, you sneaky girl and your conjunctions. Unfortunately for me, my teacher does tend to mind. If I do it too much, at least. And sometimes I mind at myself when I go back and read over. So I use them plentifully in informal settings and judiciously in formal ones.
Completely by the by, do you know "ratiocination" is a word?? And I ran into it *twice* yesterday, in completely disconnected circumstances?? Now I must use it in conversation and watch people's faces . . .
Oh, judiciously of course. But used nonetheless :D I just love it when it's like a paragraph and then you're seaming into the next and you go -
ReplyDelete"But clearly Eliot intended otherwise." It's such a thrill.
Haha, wow, that's a new one. Where in the world did you run into it?
Well that settles it. I definitely have to room with a girl who can talk about conjunctions as a "thrill." =)
ReplyDeleteFirst I bumped into it while browsing freerice.com (at Sarah's recommendation). Next thing I knew, Irving used it in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." I should be able to use it on my brother some day. He ratiocinizes quite a lote.