Wedding season is upon us, children. Congratulations to my dear friend Karla and her new husband Karl, and to the fantastic couple Rup and Patricia!
Semi-related, it turns out that Target has started carrying a line of wedding dresses (and bridesmaids ones, too), online, ranging in price from $99-$129. Also of interest is a recent wedding picture of the bridal party being ambushed by a t-rex. Kelly AT and i are doing the photography for Rup and Patricia's wedding; i am strongly considering photoshopping a sea monster into Lake Monona in the backdrop of theirs. Hmm. i'll see how Patricia takes it. i'm also open to suggestions for sea monster pictures.
Dictionary.com reports charm as the power of pleasing or attracting, apparently for the middle English from Old French from Latin for carminen, for 'magical song'. There was a recent post on NPR's Monkey See blog regarding the charming-ness (and apparent lack-thereoff) for modern men, particularly actors as featured in a recent Atlantic article. The Monkey See article references a princess phone ("Why, if I had a nickel for every time I called up one of my girlfriends on my Princess phone and said, "There I was, alluding to a perfectly good quotidian absurdity, and he wasn't lubricating our exchange at all!" Well, if I did, I would have enough nickels for another Princess phone, that's what."). My dear friend LZ and i thought it was a made-up thing, a very frilly, girly appliance. Turns out, it was a best-selling, very popular model of phone for AT&T, sleek instead of frilly, and discontinued as late as 1994. Huh.
Something else i had to look up today, definition-wise, was the term 'nebby', used as a descriptor. Urban dictionary did not disappoint, and it is a Pittsburgh word for nosy/snoopy/inquisitive/annoying. LZ referenced it, and she is from Pittsburgh. Okay.
Regarding the Pope Emeritus' current footwear (no more red shoes, remember?), looks like he's sporting a handmade pair from Mexico.
My current university in the NYTimes today, "“Your mother or father doesn’t come up and tuck you in at night and read you equations,” said Geoffrey Borman, a professor at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin. "
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