Comments for Living the Dream

Comment on The Other Katie, Redux by Colleen

Colleen — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:46:05 +0000

These are so funny. I had no idea that you got so many; a few I can understand, but you’re averaging one a week!

Comment on The Other Katie, Redux by Katie

Katie — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:22:18 +0000

I agree that it certainly appears that way. I wonder if it’s a statistically significant peak, though?

Comment on The Other Katie, Redux by Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:23:51 +0000

Re the graph: it does look like the numbers peak every 4-5 months!

Comment on Beautiful Washington by Siouxgeonz

Siouxgeonz — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:26:51 +0000

It’s really hard to convey the plain ol’ fun it is… and something a whole lot deeper. I sometimes wonder whether some people resist because by sort of slowing down the world enough to get on the bike and commute, they are afraid they might see just how fundamentally insane so much of their lives are…

Comment on Mooow by katz

katz — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:45:27 +0000

I think this guy is totally cute.

Comment on Vocabulary Quiz by Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:26:02 +0000

I knew about twenty. Oddly, “Chasuble” is a word I’ve looked up just recently, within the last two months.

Comment on Vocabulary Quiz by katz

katz — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:15:13 +0000

I think thesaurus abuse is generally viewed as a no-no in novel writing, mostly because modern writers rarely have a formal enough voice to pull it off. You can create awful dissonance if your characters usually sound like frat boys and then occasionally throw in words like “plenipotentiary.” How do you know if your voice is too casual to use a word? If you had to look the word up in a thesaurus, it’s too casual.

Comment on Vocabulary Quiz by Lesley

Lesley — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:04:02 +0000

I knew very few of those words! But my comment is kind of a side note – there’s a young girl at the Summer program I’m working at named Oriel. I had never heard that name before, and now I’ve seen the word, all in the course of a week. So crazy! I’m wondering where her parents would have encountered it to decide to name her that. It’s a really pretty and unique name to have though.

Comment on Vocabulary Quiz by Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:19:08 +0000

I only knew a few of the ones you didn’t. (Probably from doing Free Rice vocab quizzes.) I haven’t read the books but was he maybe trying to make his writing sound like it’t set in an ancient, middle ages-type culture?

Comment on An Update by Darren

Darren — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:23:59 +0000

My sister redid her bathroom floor by herself. My impression is that it was quote the project, but it looks really nice.