hey ya'll! I may as well be a full on lurker these days. I'm hobbled by busier job (yay work) and sharing an office and no computer at home (which is changing as of tomorrow I think). (I enjoy parenthesis! And exclamation marks!!! and I over and misuse the word 'AWESOME')
Anyway, I'm lisah and I've been around since maybe the 4th thread on TT? For many a year at any rate. Over the years I've posted inconsistently but I've kept up pretty well.
I live in B'more which, like sarameg, I love!!! I am a technical writer/editor (and, recently, de facto project manager, oi) for a small but rapidly growing software company that does exceptionally boring work for the gov't. I also sing in rock bands. And promote the awesomeness of my city. I run an assisted living facility for two elderly cats and one verrrrry elderly dog. After being single for many years I met an amazing guy at, of all places, a baby shower last year. Sadly, he lived in Chicago. Happily, he moved here a few months ago and now lives with me in my house!!! I'm still pretty freaking excited about all that!
I LOVE olives, am okay with cilantro, really don't understand why you wouldn't use the serial comma, and think an extra space after sentences is pointless.
I love that the extra space has now become a de facto part of the ... de facto Buffista survey.
I had no idea that the double space was so...not in vogue. I wonder if Word corrects it for me because I think I always do it.
I should add to my initial results--I like olives and cilantro, I'd probably like a muffuletta, and I was trained to use the extra space by both law school and the Department of Labor, but my current job has beat it out of me.
I love how the map is blossoming! It's like spring and the flowers coming in! We have points on every continent (except Antarctica). It's so cool!
Hey, I'm Jars. I totally feel like a lurker lately! I've been on the board since... 2001/2 or thereabouts, I reckon. When I was about 17? Which is horrifying. Apologies to all for my general toolishness when young. I'm sure I must be less of a tool now.. right? Right? Guys?
I have recently become a Londoner, am accidentally married to a real live American and have two cats, Pete and Clive. One's a girl, one's a boy.
I've met a decent number of Buffistas and they are never less than interesting.
This is a very cool thread!
olives
No.
cilantro
No.
muffuletta
Maybe, if I ever get to try one.
serial comma/Oxford comma
How can you not love these? Truly, any form of punctuation over which there is controversy is a source of joy. (When it comes to grammar I'm a descriptivist, not a prescriptivist. Socio-linguistics is a god among academic fields, mightily straddling the humanities and the social sciences. Yes.)
And because it's important -
olives
ALL OF THEM IN MY FACE NOW PLEASE
cilantro(or coriander if you're a filthy foreigner like me)
DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN AND ALL HIS NAKED ANGELS NO GOD WHY
muffuletta
still not entirely sure what it is. Sandwich, right? I'll give it a go. Someone make one for me.
edited for my hideous formatting.
Maybe, if I ever get to try one.
If you're a "no" on olives, I'd say the muffuletta is not for you.
