dream_note epitome of incomprehensibility Colleen from the Gilbert and Sullivan group sent me a kind note, which I press against a college's hallway wall, next to a bulletin board. When I pen my reply, I want to include some heartfelt comfort for some dream problems my waking mind forgets, but I erase my first draft (in dreams, pen marks erase easily) because I'm worried she might not like the word "shit" in this note. She might want to show it to her daughter and thus be censorious about swearing. "Shit" seems apropos to the troubles I'm comforting her about - it's something like an ongoing aggravation related to her work or volunteering duties. ... In real_life, she was the one who bought the first copy of Fanfiction_Is_for_Teenage_Girls on Tuesday - the official launch is next Sunday, but I had a few advance copies. She seemed happy and enthusiastic to have me sign it, and I was similarly grateful...but when I got home, embarrassment struck me. (Why does everything "strike" me? Hit me baby one more idiom.) Anyway, I worried about the content. Were there too many sexual references? Would the title make her think of her teenage daughter and think "I should not approve of this book - it's inappropriate for actual teenagers"? Why does her voice in my mind sound censorious and stertorous now, and why am I tossing around adjectives like confetti?? 250912 ... e_o_i (Speaking of adjectives, apparently "stertorous" means involving snoring sounds rather than snorting ones, so I didn't quite use it right, but this article is funny: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/obscure-words-for-bodily-smells-sounds-and-egesta) 250912 what's it to you? who go blather from