Brenda: A few seasons ago, he was in love with Neela. There was a whole long back-and-forth thing between them. He saw her with another guy and got really drunk. She realized she had to make a decision. We saw him staggering out of a bar, then cut to her sending him a text message. He gets the message, grins, and then gets hit by a truck.

Today, in the two blocks between my office and my apartment, I saw three cars with Virginia plates and Obama stickers.

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Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels - and it means "beautiful thinking". It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.

Eunoia is so pretty! That would make a great kid name for one of those cruel but adventurous namers. IOW, not me.

I got coffee time with Kristin, though most of my time was spent wrangling a grubby baby.

I'm gonna get all of your saramegs in late November. Pthbbbt!

Now I'm catching up on the interwebs.

Next week on ER... hunh?!

So, eunoiay where you're kind of stabbing at good thinking but maybe not all the way there? Because I can't let go of the "sometimes Y."

Hah, and I get a whole bunches of people!

One of the german words I loved for a name beyond anything I can explain was Ihnen. Unfortunately, it means "them" which would be mean. But I love the sound of it (EEN-nehn.) There were a few other german and french ones I disremember.

Noah? Grubby? Unpossible.

I had a brief sadistic urge to name kids of mine names that mean the same thing as my name. Luckily moot.

I am so trying to convince myself not to go to the ER. I was just there!

Eunoia

That's a fascinating challenge, but I'm not sure how much of that I could stand to read. I think I like some of the comments better than the excerpts. He does seem to have a point about the vowels having different personalities.

Yay for sara in the Southland!

The puppypile is ridonkulous [link]

Kat, I'm glad the books arrived!