Miscellany

I just got "Schott's Miscellany 2008" in the mail today. I ordered it last Sunday after seeing it on the CBS Sunday Morning show. I had forgotten that I ordered it, so it was a welcome surprise.

So far I am really lovin' it! Although I do not agree at all that Chipotle should be on the list of words to banish. I love that word. And I love chipotle! Every time I hear it or see it I absolutely must say it. Maybe I'm not the only person who has to say it all the time like that, and that's why it made the list. (The first time I heard of it and ate it was in Tucson. There was a chicken shack on campus and they had a chicken sandwhich with chipotle mayonaise and I was intrigued. I quickly became addicted to it, and haven't been able to find a chipotle mayo that tastes anywhere near as good).

I think my favorite part so far is the words of the year. I will be highlighting and using quite a few of them. Like "Gorno" - those pornographically violent gore fest films... I love horror films, but I draw the line at a point. "Wolf Creek" was the most disturbing film I've ever seen. My husband quit watching it pretty early on. I watched it to the horrid end. And now (a year and a half later) I really wish I never would have finished it, because that awful Head on a Stick part will disturb me forever.

Ugh. On a lighter note... I like the word "Peerents". Parents who aspire to be like their children's peers. Its such a current issue - I see so many parents behaving that way, and its just not right. My mom was way ahead of her time when she started acting that way in the late 80s.
The most interesting thing so far is the affidavit of Lt Haut affirming the existence of a crashed UFO with extraterrestials... so was it the truth, or was it some kind of final joke?

Anyway... sorry for the punctuation and lack of quotations - i'll fix it later - posting by email does not favor some characters...

~~Fixed :) but I may have missed some... posting by email kind of sucks... for some odd reason sometimes the email gets sent 2 or 3 times...