{"id":3449,"date":"2011-11-07T13:19:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T18:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2011-11-07T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T18:19:38","slug":"you-say-moleskin-i-say-moleskeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/you-say-moleskin-i-say-moleskeen\/","title":{"rendered":"You Say &#8216;Moleskin&#8217;, I Say &#8216;Moleskeen&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I, like many people who write, carry a small notebook to jot down ideas when they come to me. Two reasons, really: (1) An idea for a post <em>will not<\/em>\u00a0stay with me <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2666\">for more than 30 seconds<\/a>, even if it&#8217;s the most exciting thought I ever thunk, and (2) during Those Dry Times, I can sometimes\u00a0flip through the pages and find something to blather on about.<\/p>\n<p>If I don&#8217;t have my Moleskine\u00ae\u00a0with me, I just scribble on a sticky note, a receipt, a gum wrapper&#8230; and my desk is littered with these little pieces of paper all the time. Here are some in front of me right now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hands smelling like lavender after washing Baby E&#8217;s head<\/li>\n<li>past tense of\u00a0<em>breathe<\/em>\u00a0should be\u00a0<em>broathe<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Things I Don&#8217;t Like: (1) when people pronounce\u00a0<em>amphitheatre<\/em>\u00a0as if it has no\u00a0<em>h<\/em>\u00a0after the\u00a0<em>p<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><\/em>I worry that <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=3154\">Boonie<\/a> didn&#8217;t know how much I loved him.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t eat when I&#8217;m not hungry.&#8221; &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=41\">Kate K.<\/a> Jealous.<\/li>\n<li>Horrifying thought of the day: A hundred years ago, I would&#8217;ve been considered a spinster. A SPINSTER. People get into relationships ALL THE TIME. What the hell is wrong with me?<\/li>\n<li>Liane Hansen pronouncing &#8220;Ghostface Killah&#8221; in Mark Ronson interview&#8212;hahahaha<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of these scribbles will never get written about. There&#8217;s just not enough <em>there<\/em>. But I really want there to be. I practically sprain my brain trying to weave these threads into something meaningful. One I keep looking longingly at is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>B: &#8220;Fly, you fools&#8221; (LOTR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a reference to Christmas 2001\u00a0when my family saw <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0in a tiny theatre in Stowe, Vermont. At the moment when Gandalf was hanging from the precipice&#8212;the hobbits staring, petrified, powerless to stop his fall&#8212;my brother leaned over to my ear and said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=meOCdyS7ORE\">&#8220;Fly, you fools!&#8221;<\/a> <em>one second<\/em> before those words came out of the Grey Wizard&#8217;s mouth. And it was one of the most thrilling moments I&#8217;ve ever experienced. The combination of the emotional intensity of the scene and my brother&#8217;s precognition was too much.<\/p>\n<p>I shouldn&#8217;t have been surprised, of course. My\u00a0brother had read all the books a brazilian times; he knew every slash of a sword and every breath of a Ringwraith. (Now Dan Miller or somebody&#8217;s going to comment that Ringwraiths don&#8217;t breathe or something. Shut it, <em>I don&#8217;t know anything about them because I didn&#8217;t read anything but Nancy Drew when I was little.<\/em>) But it was so awesome. Just an awesome moment in my life.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve wanted to write about that moment for a long time; I just didn&#8217;t know what else to say about it.<\/p>\n<p>And I still don&#8217;t, but there it is.<\/p>\n<p>On the internet.<\/p>\n<p>So. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of Those Dry Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, like many people who write, carry a small notebook to jot down ideas when they come to me. Two reasons, really: (1) An idea for a post will not\u00a0stay with me for more than 30 seconds, even if it&#8217;s the most exciting thought I ever thunk, and (2) during Those Dry Times, I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/you-say-moleskin-i-say-moleskeen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Say &#8216;Moleskin&#8217;, I Say &#8216;Moleskeen&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fambly","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3478,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}