giddy epitome of incomprehensibility In older works, this can mean dizzy or overwhelmed, not just happily high on elevated feelings. Does this speak to the societal expectations around feeling untethered, emphasizing the badness of uncertainty rather than the benefits of feeling free and freewheeling? Or is it just standard semantic drift and I'm overthinking things? 250730 ... e_o_i See, despite secondhand_stress around my students' exam tomorrow and the knowledge that I have fewer money-making ventures lined up for August, I feel happily giddy. And when I feel giddy, I use too many big words. My appleologies (in which one studies an apple in a stereotypically Canadian way). 250730 what's it to you? who go blather from