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I have a deadline I have to meet tomorrow morning, but I thought I would take a second to upload some backlogged photos to flickr, just to get them online. In the process of creating the tags, I somehow ended up spending more than half an hour looking for a synonym of “voyeur” with a nonsexual connotation.
I am a world-class procrastinator.
I ended up going with “spy” but I don't like it. It's too dry, not scandalous enough. On the other hand, while I can use words like “voyeur” in prose and can be mostly confident the context will prevail, I don't think I should be tagging photos with a word that brings up nothing but adult content in a google search. Just saying.
“I use big words because I'm trying to sound smart. You use big words because you are smart.”
Once again, for some reason, we are discussing my vocabulary in the office, and this is Neil's suggestion to me:
“You should do like a Jenna Tollerson word of the day.”
Bryan (our manager) is walking by and interjects, “Doesn't Merriam-Webster already do that?”
Me: “And dictionary.com.”
Neil: “Yeah, but I mean compare those operations—compare dictionary.com to jennatollerson.com!”
Bryan then deadpans, “I understand the value added there, for sure, but it's quite a bit a work.” He turns to me. “Maybe you could do weekly instead of daily, so you'd have 52 instead of 365.”
Neil: “You could use your crazy stories!”
“My crazy stories?”
“Oh, you've got some crazy stories.”
“You know, when I was in third grade I did win an award for the best spelling sentences. I came up with some crazy stuff.”
“There you go!”
You are reading the life, times, and general musings of Jenna Tollerson. I am an independent web developer living in and around Athens, Georgia, USA. [read more]
