How Many People Can Say This

Having coffee with a friend and former thesis advisor this morning resulted in perhaps the quote of my young life:

"Wait a minute: We're talking about different Skopje's!"

That's right, American University's Scholar in Residence really thought I was coming to gush and pick his brain about a possible move to Skopje, Illinois. I'll admit, it's half my fault because at one point he did write, "Skopje, Ill," with two L's, and I assumed he was referring to a suffix "FYR" replaced. Wow.

No props for us today! And then there's this close second, posited by another good friend Nick. (Prefaced pause of reflection...)

"You seem like a blogger."

I gasped. It's embarassing to say that I wanted to be embarassed! Without meaning to sound snobby, judgemental, Parisian (lol) - you name it - I took it as a dis. Hopefully someone's way with words can attend to this wound. Change my mind, people.

This post for all of it's punctuation calls me back to a day when a very gifted, if not generally baked Professor of mine presented us with an article arguing that punctuation is unnecessary; semi-colons and exclaimation points especially!

The theory goes that word choice should speak for you. I vehemently rebutted his arguement if for nothing else than the fact that his tone was superior and dismissive... (Parisian? No really I'm just kidding).

But since I'm not recalling his name, which I could google, were I not at the office (hehe), I'll chalk all of mine up to my 50% Italian heritage. We're loud and we express ourselves vigorously through gesture. My hands gesture via punctuation, so there! ;)

This post isn't particularly intellectual, more just for fun - but also to announce that soon I shall very likely be departing from the states. Woo hoo! Top two intended destinations, based on offers and finances are Skopje, MA and Brussels, BE.

Thoughts, anyone?