So I wandered over this morning to have a look at this week's words, hoping a story would come to mind just by seeing them. Sometimes it happens, which is such a blessing for those of us who enjoy our pigritude. Other times, all I find in my imagination is a great vacivity of any ideas at all.
I tried to be patient as Quilly's page loaded, though on my dial-up connection her pixels fill the page as slowly as a zombie's spiscious blood might soak into the back seat of a '78 Datsun B210. No matter: I was filled with the same anticipation I might have in watching a tragematopolist fumbling with his keys to the shop, but... surprise! There are no new words for this Thursday at all. Quilly's letting us choose any words we like from those introduced in October.
Darn.
Now, I'd never ever wish to misqueme such a fine blogger as Quilly, but I'll admit I was disappointed. I'm one of those people who need some direction or prompt, so telling me to choose from a sea of words is like putting me in the pilot's seat on a nubivagant night flight over open ocean: I'd hardly know up from down after a few minutes, overwhelmed by choices.
So to provide some much-need direction, I considered merging my 3WT with Friday Flash 55 tomorrow, and simply suffarcinating all the October words into the 55-word story I've got ready, but alas, no... the result was terrible, like that maleolent concoction my poor husband served up for supper tonight, and if anyone had complained in the comments, it would have felt like being poked with a burning umbrella into particularly tenellous regions that are best left unspecified.
In the end, I gave up. Though I risk certain xenization among my bloggy friends this Thursday for having abandoned the game altogether, I can only apologise, and promise something better for next week.
Provided, of course, that Quilly resumes her Zombie Word-Queen role and finds three new words for us...
Tales of the Zombie War take place after humanity narrowly overcomes the zombie apocalypse... what next, for all the survivors? That's the story you can tell them, and prizes are awarded every six months.
Zombie Zoology is an upcoming anthology from Severed Press that needs short stories of the undead. Payment is 1c/word plus a contributor's copy.
Zombie Feary Tales says, "Take a faery tale, add your voice to it, add zombies to it, hell, add anything to it. No word maximum, but remember ... faery tales are kinda short." It's another one from our friends at the Library of the Living Dead. Before anyone starts, there is no typo.
October's 3WT words were:
misqueme: to displease or offend
tragematopolist: confectioner, sweet-seller
vacivity: void, emptiness of what's expected
tenellous: tender
utible: useful
nubivagant: among clouds
maleolent: foul-smelling, malodorous
xenization: walking as a stranger
pigritude: laziness
suffarcinate: to overstuff
spiscious: of a thick consistency
tristifical: causing sadness
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This was the most eloquent and educated whine I have ever read. Brace yourself -- the first week of every month will be a recap of the previous month's new words.
Believe it or not, this meme takes up a huge chunk of my time every week, so that is my little vacation from having to put together a 3-5 hour post every Wednesday eve.
Why thank you! LOL
I completely spaced on it being the first Thursday; why does it seem like November's been here forever?
(There I go again--my day to whine? LOL)
My head is positively spinning from what Quilly best dubbed as "eloquent whining". :)
I have to be careful or all these new and exciting Things To Do With Words will make me forget I have a "real" job. Yeah, like with today's real boring staff meeting. [insert rolling eyeballs].
But having read Dan's "grump" blog, I'm seriously considering having a Grouch Fest 2009 where we can all unload one day with no repercussions.
My luck, they'd want to make it a monthly event. :)
You're allowed a day off to breathe and let your fingers rest. Me? I've got to go see where I left my "Spare 55". :)
Laugh at Susan the way she composed this post and whined in the most dignified of ways.
"First Star to the Right, Straight on to the Morning" Oops wrong movie.
Spock would not be Amused.
Hope, still waiting for the Grump Fest to Begin.
Hope, a monthly grouch fest is a meme I could get into! LOL I wish you'd do it! Only two more days to the weekend, thankfully; you'll be ok.
;-)
Bill, it's true, I'll never make Captain at this rate. Whining's so unprofessional LOL. You've got me thinking that a Peter Pan/Star Trek merge might be interesting... hey, it happened with Dr. Who after all.
And we could have Thom as Peter, and you could be Tinkerbell :) And if needed I could be Smee. We'd need a Wendy though, any suggestions.
Yeah, Bill, I have some suggestions...
ROFLMAO!
But first I want to see Thom in costume. Oohoo boy.
He'd love his Green Tights :-) thought about Quilly as Wendy and the Amoeba as Spock as his thoughts are so logical.
You just keep digging these holes deeper and deeper. Combine a 3WT with a 55...PFFFFT. Buck up sister! We all go through the same rules and regulations as you do. Word to the wise however, your whine was great, but just don't whine about the words. Q doesn't like that. Dr. John complained a couple of months ago and she just never let us forget it. The Zombie Word-Queen has a mind like an elephant...she never forgets. Speaking of which. You know I almost do a whole post in my comments...PFFFT..can you stand it. Where was I oh yeah in case you have forgotten SHW is a pick your own next week. AND and here's the big one. I have a brilliant idea for POW. Just you wait. And NO NO NO NO NO you can't peter out. That's un-lady like...Crap look who I'm talking to. Tasers armed and ready...FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are totally amazing, Susan. I'd be tempted to write what my students would try to get away with.
The teacher wrote the word tristifical on the board.
Stephen wrote a sentence with the word utible on his paper.
Mary thought the word pigritude was silly.
Too bad you weren't playing this week :)
Dona Nobis Pacem & Thursday Thirteen
Thom, great, I'll do a SHW about you then; I've been waiting for this.
Kay, ROFL!! Stories like that make me wish I'd gone into teaching (I wanted to, years back) but I know I could never make it. But, so cute!
Nessa, yeah it's a shame, but there's always next week LOL
o, lovely words! am going to write a poem! (when I finish work maybe - oops!)
Hayley, ROFLMAO!!!
Hey, now, you don't want to be fired...
Did I tell you that they cut F's SNA? He's in class flying solo at times, and I'm not sure what I think of that.
positively amazing the use of these unusual words. it is just wonderful to learn something truly new everytime!!
A story about not doing a story. Excellent. I love faction :-)
ah, cuts everywhere, I hope F manages ok. Lucky he's in a small school, I guess (though hear statement that 'class sizes could be bigger' today, oh yeah, right.....keep the great unwashed uneducated, that's a real help!
and qu'es que c'est 'ROFLMAO'? Something about Rolling On Floor Like Mad Animal Offspring?
Thanks CC! I love what Quilly manages to find.
Thanks Anthony; I like 'faction' better than 'copout' LOL
Hayley, it is a big help I suppose, if goons like that want to stay in office. ROFLMAO is Rolling On The Floor Laughing My ...Aardvark Off. But I think you can replace aardvark with something clASSier if you like, KWIM?
(know what I mean?)
HTH,
(hope that helps)
Sx.
;-)
You are so funny!
I just love a well executed whine.
I whined last time she did this but it did no good.
My dragons will of course do a 55 word quibble with these words tomorrow. But they don't seem to care how bad it is.
You did good.
Well... aren't you in luck! I just happened to notice Quilly announced NEXT week's words at the bottom of HER post today! Now you have a whole WEEK to work on it! :) That WAS some mighty fine whine though... I'm off to find some cheese to go with it!
Thanks Mama Zen!
Thanks Dr. John! I remember that--and today just couldn't help but be in a whiny mood, we've had five straight days of rain. Poor Quilly! LOL
Melli, ROFL at the cheese!
A very well written whine.
You humans are so quick to whine. It is your nature.
At least you whine well.
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