Pointless peeve.

I've seen this misspelling quite a few places and on several different LJs. The word is:

froufrou

Sometimes it's frou frou or frou-frou, depending on the dictionary, but not frufru or froofroo.

It's not a surprising word to misspell. It's heard more than it's seen, and it has an onomatopoeic quality that makes people believe that it's a baby word or some such thing that wouldn't be in a dictionary. And yet, it's over one hundred thirty years old.

So now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

FriNYTX: 13. Grrr, 58A. FriLATX: 8:30.

Goth Poetry

An odd meme has been going around among kissaki and her slashfic friends about Goth haiku. This is fun so far as it goes, but joke haiku is for wussies.

Now here are some limericks lyrical
About subjects dark and vampirical
They may involve Magick,
But they aren't too tragic.
In fact, they are rather satirical.

A young Anne Rice fan was ecstatic
And watched TV in the west attic
Because a friend told her
An antenna holder
Would help the girl to get "Lestatic".

The Vampyres rejected a Goth
Who'd draped herself all in black cloth.
She was built like a wisp,
But she had a bad lisp.
She left saying, "Hey, it's your loth."

The Potter-slash Goths are much worse, see.
They always use words that sound curse-y.
They hate Sleater-Kinney
And cloned little Ginny
To listen to "Sisters of Percy."

Maybe I'll try some Goth clerihew next.

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( Disney Villain Quiz )

A Noble Spirit . . .

I bought pants today, fancy pants, for a wedding. Looking at myself in the mirror, putting on pants, I really understood what it means to be Big.

Not big meaning "grown-up," big as in, well, Big.

In high school, I was 6'3" tall. I weighed about 130 lbs. That was about the same weight I was three years earlier and five inches shorter. I was skinny in high school. Beanpole skinny. Skin-and-bones skinny. Ichabod Crane skinny. By the time I'd graduated I managed to gain about five pounds. I always wore a coat. My coats usually enhanced my tallness, while cloaking my skinniness. My four years at college gained me another fifteen pounds. Each little bit made me that much more excited, but I was still very, very skinny. So I always thought of myself as tall, not big. Guys shorter than I could be big, they filled their frames and looked like they were rooted in the ground. I always felt like a strong wind could pick me up and blow me away.

Today, two years out of college, I still stand 6'3", but I weigh 215 lbs. Most of it isn't muscle, but there are changes all over my body. My chest and gut are convex, not concave. I can feel myself connect with the ground when I jump. It may not be the perfect body, but having weight, having mass, is something I've wanted for a long, long time. And I like it.

It's weird to look at myself in the mirror and see that I'm Big. If I had more practice, I could probably Intimidate people with my mere presence. It makes me feel a bit more normal, more able to relate to certain things. Feeling clothes around one's body, rather than having them hanging off and tightly belted. Noticing one's belling expand after a large meal. And my face looks nice and round, like it doesn't need a goatee to fill it out.

On the other hand, I am worried. I enjoy being big, but common opinion seems to be against it. I worry that I may let myself get too Big. But more importantly, I worry about what has brought me to my Bigness. In high school and college, I was constantly walking to and fro burning off more energy than I could deal with. I also had a depression building up nervous energy that I would walk off all of the time. But now, not only does my job have me sitting all day, but my long commute and odd hours tend to keep me indoors or using limited motion. So while I used to rely on my general business I try to exercise daily, but it often gets pushed to the wayside by scheduling mishaps, and if I break a rhythm for two days or more, I find it hard to remind myself to start up again.

But I don't want to lose weight, I don't want to be thin again. I've done that, and I like being Big better. But I do want to be healthy, something I'm not all that used to doing.

Till then, I'm going to go to my uncle's wedding with my Big body in my Big clothes and just be Big. Yeah.