Oh- I forgot we have a professor named Sharon Stone!

If someone uses a word in a business document that you don't understand but doesn't look technical, don't you just look it up? I'm getting so much flak for my not-business-writing. In a week, I've been called up on:

• thrust
• canonical
• akin

by three different people. Thrust, they damned well knew what it meant. Canonical, he thought was religious, thought he'd caught me out, found out it was actually the perfect word, except no one knows what it means (it is the second time I've been called on it, and the first time, the guy refused to believe its definition--I clearly don't learn, BUT I AM NOT THE ONE WHO NEEDS TO GIVE HERE). Actually, the canonical guy is totally cool. He liked the word, and joked about catching on it. And I just got called on akin, because he didn't know it was a word, and he thinks he's going to forget what it means by tomorrow when he has to explain that entry to the group, and he's sure he's going to be asked by our manager, because clearly no one knows what akin means.

And I have just realised that "akin" and Akin...yeah.

Anyway--he asked why I couldn't just have written "similar". Uh, because akin is shorter, and y'all need to...this is not like when my sister insisted that she should be able to put sine qua non in the speech she was writing for the Jamaican civil servant.

This is entirely different....

Canonical does tend to be either religious or literary-specific and I can vaguely understand someone blinking at it for just a second before it settles in, but thrust and akin?

Thrust and akin?? That's weird.

Sometimes she'll start with her oldest child's name and work her way down until she gets to the right child.

Hah. We always did that, but mom would throw in the dog's name for good measure...

hen, I ended up having to order live pelvic models from his daughter Heather Godown.

Um, forget the name--WTF is a live pelvic model!? Does someone get up and model their pelvis for the class!?!?

Joss Whedon's Master Plan: [link]

Okay, I rather like that.

Tangent!

X-post with Bitches:

ION, I need some critique for my new Wordslinger logo. I love, D, snooty art boy, loves...I just want to get some feedback.

And kind of show it off, maybe.

Profile addy is good!

I actually just went and asked Christine about her mystery sibling, and her older brother is Christian. Christopher is typing away over the cube wall.

My husband, Christopher, once had four variations of Chris in his unit at work--which is why he prefers to go by the full "Christopher" instead of "Chris."

It isn't a visit with my father until I get called by his wife's name and his sister's name. Sometimes K-Bug's name too.

Dentist tomorrow. I'd appreciate some non-root canal~ma. I'm hoping for just a crown. Either way, I'm already anxious about going.

I was on a call with an Ethan this morning. I asked up front if they could over-enunciate so I could be a lazy listener.

And I just finished complaining about the former co-worker Eda. Nothing against her, just her parents.