e. opined that she found the officiant at the funeral mass a bit too "folksy", and I admit I had something of the same reaction when he led off by referring to his concelebrants as the "cast of characters" and mentioning head on the informal Irish tradition of evaluating a service based on the number of priests decorating the altar. (For those keeping score, Butch merited six, though only half of...

Raja's post reminds me that, among the expected pleasures of JP's big party in the burbs (e.g. cheesy decorations, apple cider donuts, large hairy men) there was the unexpected pleasure of rampant language geekery. I mean, it's presence could've easily been predicted given that aadroma and I were on the invite list, since you know that whenever the two of us are in a room together you've...

Some of you have no doubt noticed that lately I've had more trouble coming up with WotD posts than aadroma has had coming up with Multilingual Mondays. The trick is to come up with something interesting enough to post but not so slangy or obscure that I'll have to spend all day trying to find equivalents. I would especially like to include more common colloquial expressions, but these are...

Two months ago I couldn't help whingeing here about being introduced to helluva hot man who ended up not getting the job he came in to interview for. Today I saw him again and thought Could I be so lucky that he got hired for a different job? Indeed, I could! Here's how it works: The internal candidate was working full-time in another department. She's now working half time in that department...

I ❤ Luc Besson. I confess, I don't have much affection for his movies, which with few exceptions belong to the class of slick actioners which are designed to deliver a kind of visceral thrill that I've mostly outgrown. And, yes, he's a great big lovely bear-man, but as recently discussed in aadroma 's journal, there can be a sizable gulf between lusting after a man and loving what he does...

Regev, aka aadroma

DSCN2174 , originally uploaded by leiny1974 . Starting our trip in Peoria. Staying at Carl nytemarewulf and Roger's aadroma place. Adam orious likes Mika a little too much.

Q: Randomly pick 5 friends from your list...and match them up with 5 of your botanical photographs. Explain why you matched them together. How the hell was I supposed to choose randomly? OK, I let this do it for me. And the lucky wieners are quirkstreet aadroma envirobear philbutrin brunorepublic . But just cause I AM a bitter, bitter lawn gnome,...

I have been tagged by stillturning to take part in some memeage. There's no title for this meme, but let's call it 20 Questions as that's exactly what it is... 20 questions to answer. A. LJers who have been tagged must blog their answers and replace any unacceptable question with a new one. B. Tag eight people. Or not. {I choose aadroma , fargonrob , denbear , ...

Directions: Copy the following text and post it to your journal. Then tag your friends that you want to do this meme, too. I pledge not to do any more memes for the next month. Tagging: 2fruition , 33mhz , 50poundnote , _angry_alan , a4s3 , a_lighter_green , aadroma , abearius , ac9dfe7fd , adorable_man , ...