Or Coke (to refer to any soda/pop generically).

Yeah, Coke is the normal version (well, we are talking about the South here...), but I was going for the rarer regionalisms that might included under "other".

I feel like "Can I get you some tea? Maybe a cold drink?" was a common offering, but that was a long time ago.

Ditto for me, and maybe it really was just a choice between Coke and Dr Pepper at her house.

about how I was SO ACCOMPLISHED for my AGE. I was like, lady. I've been in this field for almost 15 years. I'm not as young as you think I am.

Hah. I've been thinking about this lately--I work with a lot of older folk (because the traveling is good either as a young person without kids, or once the kids are gone), but then when I do things like read Corporette and they're talking about sixth or seventh year associates being super experienced and I'm like "OK, so not quite the same thing since I didn't do law school and all that, but...I have 11 years experience in this field! I'm like, a mid-career professional or some shit. How did that happen??" (But because so many of my coworkers are in their 50s or 60s, I'm still seen as young. Sigh)

I call it all Coke. Or at least, used to. Now maybe soda or soft drink.

What could "other" be? Sodapop?

Soda pop was pretty common in King County when I was growing up.

We used to say coke when I was growing up, but we were in Germany at the time. When we moved back to Delaware, I started saying soda at some point. In college I liked saying sodapop, because I thought it was festive and inclusive of my newly formed associations with Mid-Westerners. Now I say soda, or, actually, I rarely say soda, because usually I'm specifying what I want by brand. Phew.

You know, I have Southern relatives, and I realize now that when they asked whether I wanted a cold drink, I took it to mean any cold drink. I wonder whether they were being specific, and I just didn't know? Anyway, I always got something cold and drinky, so there you go.

I'm actually thinking I won't get any responses to Q&A. Except from Tim, but you know, love and stuff.

It's been less than a week and I sort of want to throw in the towel before I get too invested to the point of lighting things on fire.

This day will not end. It just won't.

I was thinking of Plei today, after a long Batman conversation.

Okay, you know phrases like, "Holy crap!" or "Holy cow!" or "OMG!"? Used in the sense of, "Holy crap, that was a great movie!" Or "Holy cow, that dog just spoke to me!"

What is the term for those phrases? "Exclamation" isn't quite right.

Also, my launch was delayed. Did I tell you guys about my GRAIL launch? [link]

TO THE MOON.

Blasphemy

Okay, you know phrases like, "Holy crap!" or "Holy cow!" or "OMG!"? Used in the sense of, "Holy crap, that was a great movie!" Or "Holy cow, that dog just spoke to me!" What is the term for those phrases? "Exclamation" isn't quite right.

Interjection, I think.

I am singing Schoolhouse Rock in my head as we speak. "Interjection! Excitement! And Emotion!"