Huh. I just realized that I've been using the word "bemused" totally wrong. I was reading a book by a British author that used it to mean "confused," which wasn't what I thought it meant, so I figured it might be a British/American difference, and I looked it up in the dictionary, and it turns out that no, I was wrong, and I've been using the word wrong my entire life, and apparently this discovery has made me lose the ability to end a sentence
Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!
River ,'War Stories'
Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
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Hil R. - Sep 08, 2007 2:38:31 pm PDT #4740 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Laga - Sep 08, 2007 2:41:10 pm PDT #4741 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
hurm. I thought it was a synonym of amused. I'm heading over to dictionary dot come right now.
edit: gah! What other words have I been misusing all this time?
Hil R. - Sep 08, 2007 2:43:05 pm PDT #4742 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I thought it meant kind of sarcastically amused, like a milder form of smirking at something. But the dictionary definitions are "confused" and "lost in thought."
Laga - Sep 08, 2007 2:43:49 pm PDT #4743 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
right. I read "bemused expression" as smirky. Now I'm all bemused.
meara - Sep 08, 2007 3:05:03 pm PDT #4744 of 10001
I thought that about bemused too! Like, it was kinda confused meets amused? Quizzically amused?
Their hivemind suggest west of Broadway (which is the main drag) and (maybe) south of Olive.
That sounds about like what I was looking for (though not anythign I've found yet). Possibly near Olive, since it seems the bus that goes near work passes down that street, I think.
I got a tattoo!! [link]
amych - Sep 08, 2007 3:17:07 pm PDT #4745 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Love it, meara!
Pix - Sep 08, 2007 3:29:26 pm PDT #4746 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Great tattoo, meara! Looks like it was owey, though...eep.
Glamcookie - Sep 08, 2007 3:53:47 pm PDT #4747 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
That is a kick-ass tattoo. I'd like to get a pretty cursive M in that same spot. As usual, GF says NO to any and all tattoos.
meara - Sep 08, 2007 4:09:08 pm PDT #4748 of 10001
Yeah, owey indeed! Especially in certain spots where I think it was over tendons or something. But pain is wearing off now (um, five hours later) and eek!
meara - Sep 08, 2007 4:19:19 pm PDT #4749 of 10001
A random friend of mine just texted me "What are you wearing?" I'm amused, wondering if he saw me on the street, or if he accidentally sent the text to the *wrong* person!