a blast from the past: 03.11.04
Well, back at the airport again. Waiting for my flight from DFW to BNA…Nash Vegas, baby!—“wha—what!” any who, I am super duper excited to go back home and sleep and chill out with my dog chip and do some lines.
A few things I have learned from this trip about New Mexico:
1) it can hardly be considered a state
2) all of New Mexico is either Albuquerque or Santa Fe
3) Santa Fe looks a LOT cooler on TV than it does in real life
I am really glad that I came though…in more ways than one. I had an awesome time with N8 and Kate Spade, and it was definitely quite the experience to, well, experience New Mexico and all the wonders than make it this “Nouveau Me-Hee-Ko” if you will. Maybe the state would be cooler if people lived in it and there was stuff to do.
Last night at dinner, Kate Spade pointed out something quite profound:
When you are talking and you are trying to “quote” something, you lift up your two hands in the air, make a pair of bunny ears, and your move your fingers in order to form these metaphorical “quotes,” right? Well, when I talk, I usually quote my fingers at the beginning of my sentence/set of words/word and at the end. For example:
“At Yale, our so-called *quoting fingers* midterms *quoting fingers* are hardly midterms, since we have two of them per semester.”
Makes sense, right?
Other people will quote their fingers every syllable…which is visually more grammatically incorrect than quoting your fingers at the beginning and end of your word or set of words…but, if you think about it, you really only need to quote your fingers ONCE. Yes, ONCE. Each of your hands is one set of quotes, and when you do them together, you are already doing a full set of quotations. I, naively, did two sets which would, ergo, become 4 quotes, and the visual grammar of my sentence becomes:
“At Yale, our so called ““midterms”” are hardly midterms, since we have two of them per semester.”
What is written above is downright tacky and wrong!
So…if you are going to use the “finger quote” method, either:
A) do one set per quoted word and/or line
B) quote with your right hand at the beginning of the word/line, and quote with your left at the end
The following rules, I think you will notice, will increase your regard for American Visual Grammar, and will therefore make you a better, classier person, without the botox and/or plastic surgery.
Was that not the most profoundest thing ever? Kate Spade is so smart.
Anyway, an unnaturally large portion of last night was spent with me and n8, online and connected by the same server at the same time simultaneously instant messaging Norwalk, while I listened to Kate Spade’s drama and eventually made her PowerPoint presentation for work more exciting and visually stimulating.
(by the way, Microsoft Word is really anal about its products. I just spelled *finger quotes* powerpoint and Word made a red squiggly line under it and made me change it to *right hand finger quote* PowerPoint *left hand finger quote*. If that isn’t anal, I don’t know what is…well, besides Norwalk, of course.
I am getting my haircut on Saturday, not that you really cared or anything, but I am getting one. Yay!
A few things I have learned from this trip about New Mexico:
1) it can hardly be considered a state
2) all of New Mexico is either Albuquerque or Santa Fe
3) Santa Fe looks a LOT cooler on TV than it does in real life
I am really glad that I came though…in more ways than one. I had an awesome time with N8 and Kate Spade, and it was definitely quite the experience to, well, experience New Mexico and all the wonders than make it this “Nouveau Me-Hee-Ko” if you will. Maybe the state would be cooler if people lived in it and there was stuff to do.
Last night at dinner, Kate Spade pointed out something quite profound:
When you are talking and you are trying to “quote” something, you lift up your two hands in the air, make a pair of bunny ears, and your move your fingers in order to form these metaphorical “quotes,” right? Well, when I talk, I usually quote my fingers at the beginning of my sentence/set of words/word and at the end. For example:
“At Yale, our so-called *quoting fingers* midterms *quoting fingers* are hardly midterms, since we have two of them per semester.”
Makes sense, right?
Other people will quote their fingers every syllable…which is visually more grammatically incorrect than quoting your fingers at the beginning and end of your word or set of words…but, if you think about it, you really only need to quote your fingers ONCE. Yes, ONCE. Each of your hands is one set of quotes, and when you do them together, you are already doing a full set of quotations. I, naively, did two sets which would, ergo, become 4 quotes, and the visual grammar of my sentence becomes:
“At Yale, our so called ““midterms”” are hardly midterms, since we have two of them per semester.”
What is written above is downright tacky and wrong!
So…if you are going to use the “finger quote” method, either:
A) do one set per quoted word and/or line
B) quote with your right hand at the beginning of the word/line, and quote with your left at the end
The following rules, I think you will notice, will increase your regard for American Visual Grammar, and will therefore make you a better, classier person, without the botox and/or plastic surgery.
Was that not the most profoundest thing ever? Kate Spade is so smart.
Anyway, an unnaturally large portion of last night was spent with me and n8, online and connected by the same server at the same time simultaneously instant messaging Norwalk, while I listened to Kate Spade’s drama and eventually made her PowerPoint presentation for work more exciting and visually stimulating.
(by the way, Microsoft Word is really anal about its products. I just spelled *finger quotes* powerpoint and Word made a red squiggly line under it and made me change it to *right hand finger quote* PowerPoint *left hand finger quote*. If that isn’t anal, I don’t know what is…well, besides Norwalk, of course.
I am getting my haircut on Saturday, not that you really cared or anything, but I am getting one. Yay!
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