Hah. I'm a total sucker for PBS science shows. Especially astronomy ones, because, as I remarked on fb, there is a 90% chance I'm going to know some of the people or sites or whatever. I'm in a small business, and I have connections from birth.

(Suicide Tourist is on the .2 pbs channel right now, but I wasn't up for it.)

I am also very over the rain, and even more over the fact that it can be sunny enough for me to wear my sun glasses when I leave the office, but the minute I hit Belmont, it starts pouring, hard enough for my wipers to have trouble keeping up.

Hallo to you all from Mexico. Turns out vacation with nothing to do but lie by the pool or ocean, by yourself? Pretty boring. Sigh. I'm only on the first of six days!

Also the names "Sean" and "Geoff."

I TOTALLY read-and-mispronounced Sean as a kid. My sister was infamous for saying she wanted a "cuh-NOPEY" bed. I think I also may have pronounced it "epi-TOME". There's been others, but I've forgotten.

I'm similar with February and Wednesday. I know how to pronounce them correctly, but I mis-pronounce them in my head for spelling purposes.

Oh, this too! If I ever have to spell those, I have to pronounce them funny in my head, to do it.

Right, on Mad Men? "Sinjin"? Who the fuck is that? Is he a genie?

HAHAHAH! This is totally what I always thought when reading ridiculous romance novels. WTF kind of name is Sinjin? Sounds like he ought to be out with Aladdin.

Hallo to you all from Mexico. Turns out vacation with nothing to do but lie by the pool or ocean, by yourself? Pretty boring. Sigh. I'm only on the first of six days!

Heh. I discovered that last year in Cancun. Find some good excursions and you'll be much happier.

Right, on Mad Men? "Sinjin"? Who the fuck is that? Is he a genie?

I believe I learned that one from View to a Kill.

Ooh! Scion. SKY-un.

Fortunately neither of those really ever came up outside of novels.

Oh, that just reminded me of my Trixie Belden word -- jalopy.

Scion. SKY-un.

Ooh. That one often trips me up.

I just heard on the news a mispronunciation that drives me crazy, that I hear in some locals around here: Fustrating for Frustrating.

I think I must have picked up seneschal from fantasy novels. I just looked up how to pronounce it earlier, and have already forgotten.

Brenda, shame you can't be with me! Even more annoying--I'm sitting on the steps (which are pebbled, and OW) because the advertised WiFi doesn't reach my room. Hrmph.

...I do rather prefer this weather to Seattle's current weather, though! I just wish I had someone with me to talk to.

You know, meara, this is why I've never gone on vacation by myself! Exactly this fear. I vote you hang out at the bar until you make friends.