Randomness

So, remember that book I was reading last week?  Yea.  Pretty much as bad as I anticipated, but not for the reason I expected.  In my opinion, it's not the best idea to write a fluffy chick-lit book and include sentences like "the ability to oscillate between obstreperous conviviality and sententiousness was one of the prerequisites for being elected class president."  Um, I'm sorry but are you serious?  Who talks like that?  It's one thing to need a dictionary when you're reading literature or a textbook or something, but a $4.98 clearance girlie book?  No wonder it was on the clearance shelf, lady.  Yikes.  I mean, I'd like to think that I have a fairly respectable vocabulary, but here are the words I had to look up in order to make sure I knew them in just that one sentence (courtesy of my American Heritage Dictionary which I have a large degree of fondness for):

obstreperous: noisily and stubbornly defiant

conviviality: fondness of social pleasures

sententiousness (which I would like to point out that firefox doesn't recognize as a word):  1. Terse and energetic in expression; pithy.  2. Given to pompous moralizing



It would be one thing to use these in an ironic way in this one instance, but it was like this for the WHOLE BOOK.  Ugh.  It wouldn't have been a terrible story if the author wasn't trying so hard to prove she was smarter than most of the people who would be interested in reading her book.


Labor Day was lots of fun, there was an abundance of badminton.  Which I'm pretty sure I haven't played in years, but I forgot how much I love it.  It might be one of the funnest games ever.  Sadly, my feet may be permanently grass stained.  After two days of scrubbing I've got most of it out, but there is still a greenish tint to the bottoms of my feet.  Yuck.  Also, I'm sore in places that haven't been sore since I quit softball due to all the diving and falling and tripping and sliding.  Yea, when I play badminton it's a very physical game.  Or I'm just really uncoordinated.  You choose.


I'm so excited about the return of new TV, but can we discuss the new 90210 for a minute?  Um.....wow.  I did not enjoy it.  I didn't watch the original when new episodes were airing (because I wasn't allowed, my parents were very mean ;) ) but during college and various stints in unemployment I became a fan.  When the only bit of dialogue that stands out is this:


mean curly haired girl: are you breaking up with me?


emo lacrosse player boyfriend: I'm breaking up with us.

You may have some problems.  Now, I'm willing to give it another week or so because the guys that are writing it have done good work in the past (Freaks and Geeks) and I'm hoping they can step it up.  I try to keep an open mind, because if you go back and watch the very first few episodes of lots of popular series they aren't very good.  I'm hoping they just need to find their flow or something.  Also, can I just say seriously?  Could the girls on that show be any skinnier?  I don't think they could.  Yikes.  I'm afraid that most of them are going to fall over due to the disproportionate weight of their hair.


Gossip Girl, on the other hand.  Excellent season premiere.  It's good to know that I can get my over priveledged, unrealistic high school soap opera fix somewhere this television season. :)  Last season I totally hated Blair, this season so far she is my new hero.