Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

I remember my friend S bewailing the fact that certain pharmacological/statistics parlance was starting to creep in to American English, and one such word was ‘normalcy’. I groaned in contempt alongside him, as it was pissing me off a bit too.

Another weird word popping up now and then (I saw it on Sephora a while back) is instead of ‘addictive’, we have ‘addicting’. I think it’s cute when Asians use it, because English is not their native tongue. But if I’ve learnt one thing from Melvyn Bragg’s fantastic book The Adventure of English, I shouldn’t criticise: it could be indicative of language and its nature to constantly morph, colloquially or formally.

So what’s my rant about? I’m starting to feel…normal. I get up earlier, and go to bed at a decent hour. I’m still not quite settled in my bedroom, but am managing to sleep well. I’m trying to spend as much time at home as possible because every time I put pressure on myself to make it out for something, I let others, and myself down. It’s weird how in not trying, or forcing myself to be ‘ready’ sooner than I am, I actually get better.

Most of the week has been focussed on trying to write some reviews. I sat down to watch the Metallica documentary, thinking that would be good to review, but found it as laborious and as painful as therapy. Plus, one of the band members was a complete tosser. No review.

I also received two books from the States, one of which I’ve committed to reviewing for Blogcritics and have started to read - Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish, by Supervert (yes, that is the author’s name as appears on the book at least). Bit of a brainspin but am enjoying the ride. I wish I could work a bit faster - I’ve 2 blog posts that need typing, and desperately need to do another Blogcritics one, or at least, feel like I need to. I hope they don’t think my slowness to post is about me being lazy, it isn’t.

Yesterday, I had some sort of Adobe Photoshop breakthrough and can now place multiple photos so that they appear in the same workspace. So instead of cropping lots of little images, you can have them appear side by side or arranged however you like. Well, it was a breakthrough for me! Especially as I went from being a complete dumbarse to being able to do what I wanted in a short space of time.

Feels great to be reading again. But damn, I never did find that bloody Jameson essay.