lassitude epitome of incomprehensibility It's a little thesaurus-y, but I like this word for feeling tired and not wanting to move much. It works when "lethargy" feels too purely physical, "apathy" too attitudinal. It's not that I don't care. I'm just tired. (Nothing serious now, just slept too little for the past few days. And ate too much for supper.) 250413 ... raze here's how warped my brain is: i saw the title of this blathe and immediately thought, "it's like latitude, but as it relates to lassie the dog!" but no. it isn't that at all. and yet a part of me really wanted that to be the case, though i knew it wasn't possible. i shall now start an all-dog band called "canine degrees" as an act of atonement for disrespecting the english language. i realize what this means. i'll have to become a dog myself in order to honour the format. or maybe i can just be the impresario who makes it all happen. then again, i wouldn't think of such things if i wasn't so weary. would i? 250413 ... ovenbird Well... Wandered over here to say I had this weird immediate thought about Lassie the dog only to discover that raze thought that thought first ... So I'll have to pivot to lassi-tude, a judgemental attitude towards a delicious Indian yogurt drink? I don't know, after a way too big meal this evening and a bad night of sleep last night lassitude has possibly eaten my brain. I do, however, think this is a great word. The sibilant center is pleasantly sleepy. 250413 ... e_o_i w00t! I found this in a poem close to the one I quoted in poetic_confetti - Ogden Nash, from a book called I'm A Stranger Here Myself (found in a little_free_library). The poem's called "Nature Knows Best" and concerns getting up in the morning; here are lines 11-12: Some get up energetically and some in lassitude's throes, And I myself happen to love a lassitude, a bonnie bonnie lassitude, but be that as it may, however they rose, they rose; 250429 what's it to you? who go blather from