Normal Is What's Normal For You

[copied from dland]

I'm back to normal, whatever that is for me. I feel tip-top, for me. I slept somewhat better last night, and have not had a re-occurence of the panic-sparking problem of yesterday. (Was that only yesterday?)

My current peeve of the moment is either grammatical or a matter of intellectual snobbery; I'm not sure which. For one, I've been listening to these Grammar Girl podcasts every morning while I walk, and I generally agree with her traditional stance on most things grammatical. (Sometimes it's all I can do to keep from walking through the school hallways and raising my fist and saying "Yes! Yes!" because I Am A Grammar Nerd.) Anyway, then I drop in over at the WW message boards, which yes, I'm still reading despite my insane experience there last week, but they've changed and are much better, however ...

They are mostly morons over there.

I'm sorry. That wasn't nice and was all kinds of insensitive and -- I'm sure -- politically incorrect to say for some reason or another. And I know that these are message boards and not academic treatises, and that typos and spelling and capitalization and even bad punctuation are common and to be expected. But here's the one that got me. Regarding a certain kind of food, someone wrote:

I have cut them out all together and walla!!...back to losing again.

It took me a minute. Then another one. And then I said it out loud: walla! Holy freaking crap. Voila. (I can't type accents in with the program I use to type my entries.)

Is it just me? Am I being a word snob? You can tell me. I can take it.

Here's an odd bit of information. That project that I'm doing with the history classes, the one where they have to write their autobiography in website form and link it to other historical sites, I got the first of their mini-assignments in today to grade. What they had to do is use a graphic organizer called a web and use it to show the relationships between themselves and members of their family, or places they've lived, and so on. This would be the place to show, for example, Grandpa, and list under his name Was in WW II, or something like that.

So I'm reading one of the last ones, and I glance up at Grandpa (fought in WW II) and above that, for great-grandpa, it says William, and listed under William, it says Ran for president and Scopes Trial. And I look at the last name of the kid whose web it is and her last name is Bryan! I don't know if she's for real or not, or just using the coincidence of the names and making it up, but I wrote on her paper: WOW! William Jennings Bryan was your great-grandfather? Because how cool would that be? She would win the prize for the best personal link ever in all the time I've been doing this project.

Today's Good News/Bad News is that the audiologist knows why my new hearing aid keeps turning itself off (the good), and that the problem is mechanical within the device itself, and not the programming, and he has to send it back to the company to have a teeny tiny little part replaced (the bad). So I had to leave it with him, and he think it will be back Monday morning, and until then, I'm wearing my old hearing aids. I am sad. :( But I'll be very happy if this fixes them and it works and it's only a few days untl Monday. So I am not devastated/sad. Just a wee bit deafer for now.

And now I'm off to the dryer, as Boo had a bad Boo night last night and I was up and down the stairs with blankets and towels and things that he was pooping on, poor little thing, and he seems fine today, but I have the last of the things in the dryer to bring up. Best get on that.

P.S. Old-timers will recall that "Normal is what's normal for you" was the tagline of a laxative commercial that was shown endlessly in the 60's.

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