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March 26, 2004
the word of the day...
I am ashamed to say I am so stuck in the early 80's that I can't think of a word other than "gaylord" to describe myself today. as in "that girl? she's a total gaylord. like, to the max? word."
mind, the word, to me, has always meant "self-consciously open with unnameable emotions over which people who are totally cool (and utterly unlike myself) seem to be able to keep from embarrassing themselves"
and yes, the only real reason I have to use the word today is because I realized that every time this one fella calls, and every time I call back, and every time I talk about the whole weird awkward first-date-and-beyond-dance, I do that totally gaylordian shimmy (sometimes for real, sometimes just in my head) that...wassname...laura linney.....her character does in the Love Actually trailer. You know, the stupid little full-body spazz out that you simply must perform, just so you can get out of the totally uncool awkward overload of surprised-happiness and can get back to being the smooth and sophisticated aloof person you normally are?
yeah. total gaylord. that's me.
have a good weekend, folks.
Posted by Heather at March 26, 2004 04:14 PM
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oh my god: what a fabulous word! how did I miss this one? Gaylord! Now I know how to refer to my wackadoo ways. Thank you so much oh learned word guru :) (you are so good with those language nuggets) (and nice to know that you are a fellow gaylord too, because you always come across as soooooooooo together and righteously cool and stuff. ahem.)
Posted by: Katherine at March 27, 2004 06:25 PM
yeah...my doctor found one of those language nuggets of which you speak, catherine. it was imbedded in my nuts and had to be surgically removed.
i named him jake.
Posted by: Alejandro Aguas at March 29, 2004 10:00 AM
I think the word "gaylord" is making a comeback:
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=126&story=6420&page=2&sort=&limit=
Way to predict the trend. Word.
Posted by: Brenda at March 29, 2004 01:01 PM