4 years ago today...

Johnny & I got married - in Las Vegas - by Elvis.

We're celebrating our anniversary this year by going to stand in a field in the swamp with a bunch of hippies so we can see the Beastie Boys.

I have the bestest husband in the world. :D

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I'm in the wrong business

Is it bad that, after reading this New York Times article, I wanted to try to write a novel on my cell phone? Maybe, like, do my NaNoWriMo novel, at least in part on my phone? Because I do have that full QWERTY keyboard and unlimited txt messages...

I don't think that would really do much to help me actually finish my NaNoWriMo book this year, tho'. I am, btw, totally going to do it this year. The only reason I didn't last year was, well, Mom's stroke happened, and my computer's hard drive died, both at roughly the same time (early-mid November). One or the other thing, I could have coped with; but both at once? No way. Nothing is gonna stop me this year, tho'!

Speaking of words and writing and whatnot, I keep thinking maybe I'm heading toward the wrong career. Maybe I should switch to linguistics. Hey, I am word-nerdy, and I like to do things like ruminate on the seemingly quickened pace of evolution in vocabulary usage in the technological age. I mean, as a linguist, I could get someone to give me money to study the way people talk in IM chats! Like, holy crap! The conclusions of that study, btw (that IM'ing "blur(s) the divide between face-to-face speech and writing" and that people "go out of their way to develop styles of writing that make IM more like talk"), I could have told them from copious firsthand experience and anecdotal evidence. Hell, I was doing that, back before there was IM, even - I totally used "btw" and the quotative like when I wrote letters and postcards to people back in high school! That was like, 1993-1996, people! Everybody always told me that reading one of my letters was just like listening to me talk. I was a decade or more ahead of that trend, motherfuckers! Too bad it is only in hindsight that I can tell I'm a trendsetter. ;) Ah, well.

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