Oh, I received my favorite kind of compliment the other day from a Beanhouse customer:
Wow. You’re really beautiful without your glasses.
Ooooh, thank you, thank you!
But without my glasses, how ever will I see that I’m spilling scalding coffee on your pants whilst swooning deliriously?
I adore that you just said “whilst”.
hahaha! I love the word “whilst.”
Speaking of words like “whilst” – it’s Charlotte Bronte’s birthday today. All hail!!
Oh, my gosh! Leave it to you to know that!
WE LOVE HER!!
By the way, I rented that Jane Eyre with William Hurt as Rochester. Ugh. UGHHH! What was I thinking? What were THEY thinking? I hated him — HATED him in that part. Have you ever seen it? I need to rant with someone!!
No – I didn’t see it … I don’t approve of that casting AT ALL. But … I can’t imagine ANY real live person living up to the Rochester in my head.
Oh, it was dreadful. Dreadful, I say! I felt like I was dying, but then I just had to watch it til the end.
It was nothing like the book — and Rochester isn’t BLONDE, for God’s sake!!
No. No. Blonde-ness I will not and cannot accept.
No. Must have memory erased.
I wouldn’t have thought of Rochester as a blond. That just seems wrong. He’s a dark man. Not Heathcliff dark, of course, but still… Wasn’t St. John Rivers fair haired? I don’t remember these details, but I remember he was more or less the polar opposite of Rochester.
And even though I’ve never seen you, Tracey, I bet you’re really beautiful WITH your glasses.
Haha! Thanks, Bruce!
K. Didn’t know you wore glasses. Interesting. I love factoids about people. I sometimes just go to the mall to gape at everybody and wonder about their lives. It’s sort of a full time hobby. Or obsession… whatever.
And “whilst” *is* great… Have you noticed no one uses “leapt” anymore? All I ever see is “leaped” — which just doesn’t have the same punch. And leapt is a perfectly acceptable word:
as in a “past tense and a past participle of leap”.
GEEZ…
Gotta take the bad with the good, I guess.
I guess.
WG — Sometimes they’re on my face — sometimes they’re not ….