bluecastle | today’s post is brought to you by the letter G. (Reply)

* Occasionally I am reminded how great the gulf is between me and my co-workers, as was the case this morning when I overheard the following exchange from the office across the hall:

co-worker #1: How do you spell gnomes, as in like for the garden?

co-worker #2: K-N-O-M-E-S? Is that it?

I can’t make this shit up. (These same co-workers recently had a discussion about how to pronounce “pedagogy” … Coworker #2 was astonished it wasn’t “ped-a-goggy".”)

* Sort of thankfully, I get to escape the office tomorrow as I have signed up for a one day, ‘listen to four learned people talk about stuff’ seminar at the campuses student union. As long as the speakers are interesting it ought to be an interesting day spent discussing the right to information access.

Also, it will look well on my yearly evaluation next spring. We have to account for all the personal development stuff, so there’s a point there to be gained at the very least.

* Might have signed myself into the looney bin last night by signing up for NaNoWriMo. I don’t think I can do the suggested word count, but am challenging myself to 1,000 words a day. I still have no clue where the story is supposed to go, but I have a handful of characters who won’t leave me alone. So if I can crank out 30,000 words, I’ll have better idea of whether this vague idea for a story has any merit. Haven’t dug around for any buddies… but I’m over there as “blue castle” FWIW.