Reese
Tallahassee, Florida
June 30, 2009
Of Another Time and Place
I’m becoming increasingly convinced that I am of another time and place; I should have been born in England in the 17th century.
I have a preference and tendency to use (without thinking about it) Old English. I use “dreamt,” not “dreamed;” I think the word color should have a “u” in it and many other things along these lines. I’ve always preferred British punctuation, especially when it comes to quotations. In American English, punctuation marks always go inside the quotation marks at the end of a sentence, no exception. The English way makes so much more sense; for example, with a question mark, if the question is what is in quotes then the mark is inside the quotation marks, but if the question is the whole sentence, not just what it is being quoted, the question mark is outside of the end quotation mark (How many times did I say “quotation”? Three. Did I ever say “quotation?” No.)
Just now, I was reading some 17th century literature and nearly every noun has its first letter capitalized (yes, I used a z and not an s, but trust me, it was not without hesitation). If you check my work from elementary school (not that you could do that, that would be weird) you will see that I did this more often than not.
Finally, when I was in elementary school we were still taught to use the Oxford comma. For those of you out of the punctuation nerds loop, this is the comma before “and” in: Red, white,(this guy to the left here) and blue. We’ve driven the Oxford comma into non-existence, but he’s there for a reason and I refuse to give him up!
About
Just logged into Virb for the first time in months and realized 85% of her "about" was no longer relevant.
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Film
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brick, Lucky # Slevin, The Outsiders, Serendipity, The Wizard of Oz, Return To Oz, Stranger Than Fiction, Donnie Darko
Canto
Anathallo, The White Stripes, Viva Voce, Page France, Castanets, mewithoutYou, My Brightest Diamond, Sufjan Stevens, Crystal Skulls, Sleeping at Last, Fiona Apple, Discover America, All Things Bright and Beautiful, Mason Jennings, The Dark Romantics, Denison Witmer, Horse Feathers, Copeland, Soul-Junk, The Polyphonic Spree, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Family Force 5
Televisione
Gilmore Girls, Heroes, House, MythBusters, Medium, Kathy Griffin
Libro
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Gatsby, The Historian, Lovely Bones, The Bell Jar, Empire Falls
Attività
Photography, wakeboarding, writing, cooking, playing guitar, Wii-ing, reading, eating
Interessi
Volkswagens, Food, the internets, wii, books, coffee, coca-cola, the oxford comma
David, Feb 18, 2009:
This is my first comment on the new VIRB structure. You should be honored. =)
David, Jun 2, 2008:
My guess is that you've already purchased it, but in case you haven't you can hear the entire new My Brightest Diamond album on Spinner. Peep it here.
=D
David, Jun 1, 2008:
Ooh, when did you customize your VIRB? Looks good.
Amy, May 20, 2008:
I sold my Wii...
David, Apr 6, 2008:
I'm doin' swell. Thank you very much.
Your virbº somehow seems more abundant than mine, but I'm still quite fond of my humble little page. Oh! and you're in a Wii group now? Cool beans
David, Jan 15, 2008:
The music on your VIRB page is pretty neat. I need to get better acquainted with these bands.
Amy, Jan 5, 2008:
Yeah, well, maybe she lives in a cave or somewhere like that without cable, internet, phone, magazines, or newspapers...
Amy, Jan 5, 2008:
And I think my next day off is Wednesday... Sweeney Todd is most definately a musical, I heard it when I went to see Enchanted the other night... lots of singing. LOTS of singing...
Amy, Jan 5, 2008:
I clicked the link after i sent the message, and I am very intrigued. I would definately give it a try if there is a locale within reach....
Amy, Jan 5, 2008:
what is shabu shabu? Yeah, it sucks cause I always seem to be busy when every one else isn't...