Everybody fancies Fay. It's been a rule since forever.
Go me!
jiggles pompoms.
Tho, if bad grammar and spelling keeps ya from hooking up, it might explain my long drought.
See, if dashing young persons of wit, integrity and hottitude sidled up to me and gave me a quick grammar and spelling test in the bar, I think I'd stand a decent chance of pulling most days.
So...in the world of me, I'm thinking another year in Thailand, probably, despite the lack of pulling opportunities. And then...well, I'm sort of wondering about sub-Saharan Africa, to my surprise. After talking to a colleague who lived there for 16 years. Botswana, apparently,
is
very much like the vivid depiction in
The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency.
I confess myself intrigued...
My father, a Scorpio has married three Scorpios. Not as cosmic coincidency as meara, but still...
Speaking of my father, he just called and offered to take K-Bug back east to checkout Northeastern and University of New England.
Fay! You gotta stay in Thailand another year so I can accrue enough vacation to come visit!
Oh! Well in
that
case...
(meanwhile, I've just discovered that a dear friend from Cairo will be in Singapore week after next. And I have the half term holiday then! Cue frantic travel arranging!)
jiggles pompoms.
By which you mean ... porn?
Botswana, apparently, is very much like the vivid depiction in The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency. I confess myself intrigued...
Oooh. Huh. Also intrigued.
I really want to spend a year or two abroad. I've been looking at some sites with postings for math jobs at universities in other countries. The vast majority of them either require knowledge of Mandarin or are in countries where my American passport with several Israeli stamps would cause problems.
I wish I spoke more languages. I think that my French is good enough that, with a bit of practice, I could get by in a French-speaking country, but other than that, I've just got English.
But Fay! You must come to Seattle! Must, I tell you.
ION, I have just made an LJ entry about three different corsets I'm selling. Wish me sale~ma.
jiggles pompoms.
smiles at the thought of any part of Fay jiggling.
Bad spelling doesn't ping me nearly as badly as bad punctuation does. English spelling is hardly fraught with consistent rules - "I before E except after C" is about it. It's too illogical, and truly good spelling requires far too much memorization for many excellent minds to be successful with it. The rules of punctuation are much more consistent, and vastly easier to deal with. Minds that can't manage good punctuation, are minds I judge to either not care about the rules that make society work, or are actively rebelling against them (gawd, that e e cummings fellow was such a HOTT li'l rebel). But the thing is, I try to be charitable with evidence of either issue in chat, in email, in places like this. It's communication between friends. To heck with being perfect and prim and proper. As long as it isn't too hard to figure out what is actually being said, it's ok. It's on finished documents that these things can be dealbreakers for me.
By gum, I hate it when someone posts fan fic, begging for people to read and review, can't be bothered to run the thing through a spell-checker, and showing utter contempt for conventions of grammar and punctuation. Then they get all angry when my review includes links to punctuation tutorials "because it will help you put your best foot forward".
