"Down in the Valley Lives the Former Talk-Show Host..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

About to leave for class, but I survived my first weekend at college! By which I mean I think I had fun and did some stuff, but I still got all my homework done, which is gratifying. There were some points when that seemed a little overwhelming. But, as I say, completion.

College is definitely messing with my ability to articulate online. I am not sure how to explain this, except I know that I am using words differently and setting up sentences differently, not in ways that are wrong, actually in ways that I think are more formal, but it really annoys me that it's getting harder to speak colloquially. Speaking colloquially is a part of me. I usually turn it off, yes, but then I can usually turn it back on when I want to. This appears to be happening online and IRL, actually. I just know it's going to drive me crazy every time I make an LJ post, which is why I haven't been making many.

On a semi-related note, I still don't like Stephen King's fiction. But having read his memoir, I think it would be really cool to meet him.

Comments

[softerthansound.livejournal.com]

The other day, I said to my roommate, "You seem to have developed some sort of arboreal-induced neurosis." This is what college does, Soujn; we ought to save ourselves, but it's kind of glorious.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*dies* VO TECH SCHOOL. IN A HURRY NOW.

[zero_pixel_count]

I've seen them all and man, they're all the same (my parents have that album on an actual record)

It's over-exposure to formal language, probably... :P (I never had this problem but then I studied engineering and most of my lecturers had difficulty using correct english). More seriously, between lecture-hours and socialising with people who are less casually comfortable with one another ('cos everyones new) you're hearing a lot of formal english and simultaneously avoiding the casually-random speech patterns we all know and love, just 'cause the people at college probably won't follow your skips of logic yet... So it's just rust.

If one eats, sleeps and breathes shakespeare, one will probably start thinking in iambic pentameter... :D

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

That is an astonishingly logical explanation.

[julietveiled.livejournal.com]

I started out really loving Stephen King. Then I ran out of good books. So I started reading the crappy ones. And then I decided I HATE Stephen King. XD

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

XD That's fair. I think.