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Stream of Consciousness Saturday
This post is part of Stream of Consciousness Saturday!
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “pick a number.” Choose a number—any number—and write about it any way you’d like. Have fun!
C house a number, any number. I have always thought that, since I was born on Hallowe’en, that black cats, walking under ladders, and the number 13 are all lucky for me. That is, I would if I believed in luck. Which I don’t. Unless it suits me to. If something good happens, it must be luck that made it happen. Bad? Well, that’s just par for the course.
But if I were to tell you what number I really thought of when this prompt came up, it would be this one:
Stream of Consciousness Saturday
This post is part of Stream of Consciousness Saturday!
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “collar.” Use it as a verb, a noun, or metaphorically. Bonus points for using it in all three ways! Enjoy!
Bruce?
Yeah, Steve?
Call her up, man…I tell you, don’t mess this up!
Uh, Steve?
Yeah, Bruce?
The word today is “collar”, not “call her”.
Oh…never mind…
Stream of Consciousness Saturday
This post is part of Stream of Consciousness Saturday!
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “coffee, tea, or me.” Find a flirty phrase of your own or use “coffee, tea, or me” in your post. Have fun!
Coffee, tea, or me? Ah, your siren call beckons and I can no longer resists…
Stream of Consciousness Saturday
This post is part of SoCS (https://lindaghill.com/2019/12/13/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-dec-14-19/).
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “loud.” Find any word that means “loud,” and use it any way you’d like in your post. Enjoy!
I don’t know if this word means “loud”, per se, but the line that keeps coming into my mind thinking about this prompt today is “the tintinnabulation of the bells…bells…bells….”
Seems appropriate at this time of year, but also makes me think of a nightmare movie with bells that just won’t stop ringing…make it stop!!
Stream of Consciousness Saturday
This post is part of SoCS (https://lindaghill.com/2019/09/20/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-sept-21-19/).
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “wrap/rap.” Use one, use both (for bonus points), use ’em any way you’d like. Enjoy!
I had a dream last night that I was woken up from a deep sleep at 2am by a rapping on my window, the second story window. Then I woke up…to a rapping on my window, a second story window…
Stream of Consciousness Saturday
This post is part of SoCS (https://lindaghill.com/2019/09/13/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-sept-14-19/#like-13113).
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “blue.” Talk about the first blue object you see when you sit down to write your post. Have fun!
This is the view from my laptop as I sit and read blog posts, and add to the blogosphere myself. Yes, I confess that while I do have an “office” space, my laptop (and indeed Kevin’s as well) sit in the living room where kitties and fire and tv all meet in perfect, relaxing harmony. The blue chair? An old Ikea purchase by Kevin when he was in Optometry school. Sans Jasper at the moment, as he is currently relaxing behind me on the sofa. And now, to get back to my Saturday!
Stream of Consciousness Saturday
This post is part of SoCS (https://lindaghill.com/2019/09/06/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-sept-7-19/).
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “weigh/way/whey.” Use one, use ’em all, bonus points if you do that last thing. Enjoy!
Way-to-go, weigh-ing less eating only whey.
Stream of Consciousness Saturday
This post is part of SoCS (https://lindaghill.com/2019/07/19/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-july-20-19/).
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “frame.” Use it as a noun or a verb or any way you like. Have fun!
Hmmm. Lots of things come to mind when I think of the word “frame”. I was framed, picture frame, framing for a house – you know, it’s a construction thing – well, I guess three things come immediately to mind. Kind of like when a faculty member tells me that something in our learning management system didn’t work for all their students, and it turns out it was one student who was upset at first, and then figured it out on their own later. Panicked exaggeration I call it. Well, I do now, cause that sounds cool. Not that I panic-exaggerated when I started this post. It just felt like I should know more expressions with the word “frame”. But it turns out I was wrong.
And here’s how I like to use frames in my photography!
Stream of Consciousness Saturday
This post is part of SoCS (https://lindaghill.com/2019/05/31/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-june-1-19/).
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “silent/silence.” Use one or both in your post. Have fun!
I, like others answering this prompt, was thinking of the question – if a tree falls in a forest when no one is around, does it make a sound?
This then reminded me that, at work this week, while we were all waiting desperately for the day to be over (I don’t remember which day – probably all of them), someone was wondering – if a workplace is empty, does the work still exist? Well, it was something like that….
These are the kinds of thoughts that reign freely at work at this time of year (well, not just at this time of year, but it does seem to be more frequently expressed now), when the sun is shining, there are gardens to be gardened, and much wine to be drunk on decks and patios.
Just Jot it January, 2019: January 5
“Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “sap/sep/sip/sop/sup.” Use one or all of these words or find a word that contains them, but most of all, have fun! Wondering what to do with “sep”? This is interesting: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=SEP Enjoy!” (https://lindaghill.com/2019/01/04/the-friday-reminder-for-socs-jusjojan-2019-daily-prompt-jan-5th/) Except, of course, NOT one-liner Wednesday for me because these Jots are not only my 500-words a day challenge, but also part of my Ultimate Blogging Challenge challenge (http://ultimateblogchallenge.com).
I will also reiterate that, according to the prompt link from Linda, that this is also a Stream of Consciousness Friday post. Which will work out well, since my Just Jots are pretty much all SoCs too!
Ok. Does anyone here know that my Masters degree is in Linguistics? Yes, it is. I even taught for 10 years in post-secondary Linguistics programs. No, my current job (and the main “career” I have had for 25 years now) has absolutely nothing to do with linguistics, but it was my degree. My first university degree was Music Performance (double bass), but that’s a whole ‘nother story.
Anyway, I digress. As a linguist, and yes, I still call myself a linguist although I am a bit rusty, I was this list of words like this and wanted to tell you that they are called minimal pairs (here are some more examples: http://www.tedpower.co.uk/minimal0108.html). Because they are almost the same, beginning with an “s”, ending with a “p”, but having different vowels in between these consonants. There are, however, a few missing. That is, if I assume “sap” is pronounced like the sap of a tree, “sep” is pronounced like “unacSEPtable”, “sip” is pronounced like what I am doing with my coffee right now, “sop” as in what I had to do when I spilled my coffee because I wasn’t sipping it, and “sup” is pronounced like “what’SUP?!?” What about “soup”? Or “seep”? Or “soap”? Or “sAp”, as in “homo SAPiens”? Ok, yes, there are a few other English vowel and diphthongs I could add, but I can’t think of some good “s-p” examples for you (not enough coffee yet…still sipping…)
I could also go into the whole English spelling thing, and talk about the Great Vowel Shift and how this had a large impact on the English spelling we are stuck with today, and why it doesn’t always seem to match with how we pronounce things. And it gets a lot more complicated when we examine all the many dialects of English that exist today. Suffice it to say, it’s complicated. I do, however, get a bit snippy when people tell me how crazy “English” is – it’s not the language, it’s the spelling system! And when some people complain about how English is “going downhill” or being “bastardized” by the way people speak it. It’s a language, and languages evolve and change. People in England don’t speak English the way they did 200 years ago, nor do people in France speak French they way they did 200 years ago. Maybe instead of complaining, we should embrace it – wonder why people are saying words they way they do, or using words in different ways. It’s actually kind of interesting when you learn more.
Ok. That took me someplace I was not expecting. I should probably stop now because I am sure I have pissed somebody off – people take their English very seriously! Time to get back to my coffee…
