Example: Eminem is TOTAL beast mode, but Green Day is garb.*

What? Emmett is totally garb.

My students still say cool.

I hope cool is still cool.

I should add that I have never heard them say raw, beast, or garb, and I suspect they'd make fun of anyone who did. Maybe it's an LA thing?

I think cool has moved out of slang and is just a part of casual speech now.

Beer bread with TJ pumpkin butter . Two thumbs up. Or eight if you want to count very one at breakfast today. ditto lemon bread.

Also, Happy Birthday to ChiKat and belated happies to Jessica and Hil!

Coffee:

OMG people, I need to be productive today and am SO uninspired. I think maybe I should start a pot of coffee.

I should add that I have never heard them say raw, beast, or garb

I haven't heard these either. Tight, yes. And other things I can't think of at the moment.

Grammar fans should enjoy the training experience I had Friday. I had a training session with one of my doctors for writing notes. I had already noticed that his notes were much more coherent than many of his colleagues when he picked out a single 'were' and declared that he had to change it to 'are' to match the tense of the rest of the note. I commented that his notes were grammatically superior to many I had seen and he took pride in telling me of starting out in an English major before medical school. I then mentioned that he was clearly a fan of the serial comma when he got excited and said it was essential for clarity. A most unusual conversation with a physician for me. They are usually casual to the extreme with the grammar.

Laura, we saw erinaceous today (and her husband) and I told her that you used Wordnik as your first dictionary stop. She was very pleased.

Wordnik is fun! I am doing a lot of writing for work and it helps my insecurity with word usage when I see the examples. Spell check takes care of the simple dictionary stuff. Wordnik reassures me that people really use that word that way.