March 19, 2005
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Topic: quick hi
One day this week, some of the people I’m working w/ were having a conversation about language. Palandrome, Onamatapia, Abbreviations…we were talking about all these words that describe other words when, here’s how part of the conversation went
Me: “Wow…there’s really a lot of words that describe other words,”
Co-worker: “You mean adjectives?”
Me: “Hmmm…that was ironic.”
That might have been a “had to be there” moment, but it was quite hilarious.
Anyways…i haven’t written in a week. I want to write about all the things i’ve done, thoughts, etc., but right now I just want to say hi. I feel like when I don’t post…i’m leaving one of my lives behind. I just got an e-mail to write another article for my school’s political paper…apparently there was some postiive verbal responses to my last one. It’s tough to not be there, to not have consistent feedback, to begin something, and then set it aside. You know what…enough mental blubbery:
So…I just arrived at the Outward Bound Philadelphia office, we finished 2 weeks of training now, spent the last 2 days canoeing on the Patomic River, warm days, freezing my nuts off nights and mornings. Overall…a lot of fun, and good times bonding w/ the other staff.
This week is our last week of training, and it’s our urban training. I think this will excite me the most, because we’ll be exploring a civilized environment, and are basically free to come up w/ anything to do that might be educational. Exciting!
Oh…and I finally shared a personal “trick” that I’ve been doing for years I think, w/out really acknowledging or knowing that it was anything at all. I have an ability to unscramble words and put the letters in the word in alphabetical order in a shockingly quick way.
ex) I’m going to type radom words and immedicately type the letters unscrambled
dolphin – dhilnop
leopard – adelopr
donkey – deknoy
wonderful – deflnruw
Kind of a weird autistic thing, I think, I literally unscrameble the letters in my head as fast as I acn epty ehmt. Deirw!!!
