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Mar 9, 2005

I just wanted y'all to know that I got a hit from somebody searching for "Barry Manilowe photos". The world becomes a stranger place every day.

In a little while I have to go down to the Georgia Center for continuing education and journalize a boring-ass university council facilities committee meeting. In order to do so I have to miss a review for a test I'm taking Friday, which is lovely. I don't even know what the fuck the meeting is about, because they inconsiderately don't have agendas available online and I'm waaaaay too lazy to call ahead.

I guess it's good that I don't have any plans to become a civic journalist.

I've been trying to develop my own shorthand to take better notes for stories, and it's actually kind of fun making up letters that represent larger morphemes and words. Have you ever tried making up a letter? My favorites so far are "-ity", which is a plus-sign lowercase T with the tail of a Y hanging off the crossbar, and "-ent", which is a lowercase N with a tail that loops around and skewers the rest of the letter.

Man, I'm such a dork. Maybe this will renew your respect for me: the reason to develop your own shorthand rather than using the standard version (which looks sort of like a child's drawing of a lawn) is so that if your notes get subpoenaed, no one can read them.

OK, fine, I'm still a total dork.

Thought of the day: hooray for grading errors. I can't reveal more - I think this blog may be tapped.
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