Apparently the iPad has negatively affected my blogging. That, and work. I'm too lazy now to break out my laptop at home - it takes half a lifetime (okay, ten minutes or so) to turn on, and I'm too paranoid about fires while I'm at work to leave it on full-time. It's too time consuming to type a blog post using the on-screen keyboard of the iPad. It's also been busy at work, with no breaks to blog during. I've also been making a concerted effort to leave my desk for lunch. So. Until I get a wireless keyboard for the iPad at home, posting will continue to be sporadic.
Words have really been on my mind lately. Anyone who's known me for a long time will recognize that I've always been a word person. I love words. It's why I'm fairly good at crossword puzzles. (Hey, I'm up to Wednesday on the NYT puzzles!!!) I love the sound of them, the feel of them, the weight of them as I move them around in my head. I know I don't measure my words as carefully as I should a lot of the time. It's so easy not too in this fast-paced, hectic sound bite we live in.
However, this is something that is really starting to bother me. Especially since our state legislative session has been in full swing. Whether it's what they themselves are saying, or the words in the bills, or the articles and online comments...words have been flying around like crazy. Big words; and I'm not talking syllables. Yet no one seems to be measuring them. No one seems to be weighing them. No one seems to be sounding or feeling them out first.
