Word Furrows From Emily
glassblower
verdigris
Vermeer
janitor
sedate
charcuterie
folly
forepaw
detox
sometimes i feel like a glassblower. let me rephrase that. i feel like someone took me and placed me in a glassblower’s studio, handed me that long metal stick with some molten globglass on the end and told me to blow real hard. not only that, but i was expected to make a beautiful vase worth millions of dollars.
okay, so maybe i exaggerate a tadpole, but here i am in wordpress (which i truly do love by the way), but it took me about five minutes to figure out where i’m supposed to write. also, i don’t know how to look at my new wordlist while writing. this morning i opted for printing it out on a piece of paper, which i look at while i type. i like to have the word furrow right at top o’ the page so i can just glance up while writing. is there a way, oh studious ones, of making this happen? just wonderin’.
i know, here you are - handing me a bright copper penny, and all i do is spray the fake can of verdigris all over it. sorry.
one great thing about me is i can ask for something while at the same time accepting the fact that 1. i don’t deserve it really. 2. it’s o.k. if i can’t have it, already solved the problem in my own way. and 3. who the hell do i think i am.
wow, and i only had to go to sunday school on sundays, not monday through friday like the rest of those catholic kids!
no wonder i’m going on 3 years in that same torture chamber of a job, where i’m paid no more than a janitor. i need catholic detox real bad. the super weird thing is, i feel okay about everything most of the time, safe in my alabaster chamber, so sedate.
inside my heart lurks vermeer. i scratch at the 70’s fake wood paneling of my soul with my injured forepaw, struggling to get out - while vermeer taps my shoulder and says “what folly! there’s a gaping hole behind you - did you not feel the wind in your hair?”
vermeer and i turn around towards the opening, walk out to the streets of paris in the rain, and head to the nearest charcuterie for dinner and champagne.
meanwhile, back in my reality - my “problem” is now solved. i merely have to copy and past the furrow into this document wherein i now am writing. however, a new problem has erected itself upon me, i just hit spellcheck and it told me something fatal.which did not include checking for spelling errors. something like could not execute ajax server did not retur valid xml.
guess what my pals, i’m buying a new computer, which may or may not be related. this one only has 19% left on the hard oh so hard disk. and i really want some massive gigabytes to satisfy me. stephane and michele are helping me find a bargain on the internet. but fer sure i need miss emma to help me pick a softyware with a very slippery user interface so i can scan my crap up to cafepress. i’m thinking about paint shop pro or somesuch. something EASY.
i didn’t know tarballs existed.
IS THERE ANOTHER PLACE TO PUT THIS WORDLIST BESIDES HERE?
NEXT WORDLIST:
TAMERLANE/ZINC/DIPTYCH/ORNERY/SCRAPPLE/COMMODIOUS
Responses to “sometimes i feel like a glassblower”
January 13th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
I just open Word or Notepad next door to my Wordpress window and then can see my words while I type. Or keep my email open in same manner. That means having the two windows side by side though and maybe your screen isn’t that large?
You may also appreciate the tip about making the writing box in Wordpress longer by pulling at the lower right-hand corner of the box (your mouse pointer should turn into a little double-sided arrow). Then you could have a longer box to write in and maybe could still see the words atop it.
I don’t know how to create a centralized way of putting in the words for tomorrow, because not everyone will be using the same words. BUT I have been toying with the idea of creating a word-generating tool that will come up with the 5-7 daily words for all of us (and each of us will add to the wordpile from time to time to make sure it is always flush). But that would mean we all were doing the same words as each other each day. Right now we are doing some kind of mix cause I’m doing Emily’s words, Emily’s doing Lily’s words, Lily’s doing Emily’s words, but then this weekend I sent Emily some words too, did that mean Emily is going to do two today? Hmm so ambitious.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I looked briefly for a scratchpad plugin for the admin but didn’t find one that would do what you are wanting. I’ll look more in a bit (need to get outside while the sun is still shining).
January 14th, 2008 at 12:24 am
i did lily’s words this morning but then ran out of steam for your words. now tis evening and the words are less bountiful, my brain less commodious.
so i like the idea of all of us doing the same words every day. and the source of the words could either be automated, or, authors could provide words in alternating fashion. i like the latter idea best; however, i think there’s something to the magic of words provided by someone else; i never really feel like doing my own words. not sure how to solve this, if indeed solution is needed.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:38 am
I was imagining my wordspewer tool would work like this: there would be a wordpool of cool words. Every day or so all the spewers would contribute some words to it. And every day the wordspewer would spew out 7 words picked at random for everyone to use that day. So you might get one or two of your own words back (depending on how many you contributed relative to other contributors). The more people we have contributing the less likely you will be to get your own words each time. However at the beginning, if the three of us contributed equally, we’d get 1-2 of our own words back each time. So that would be sort of lame, but I’m not sure how to fix it without tracking way more things, like who the words came from and who they were given to.
Once a words has been used as a Furrow word, it is nixed from the wordpool as an active word. And we’ll have a duplicate checker. How does that sound?
(I think it will also make it much easier for people to join us, because they can jump right in and have their words for the day and not have to find a buddy first.)
January 14th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Of course I’ll have to figure out how to program all that and make it work with Wordpress, hmm.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I’m currently dicking around with ‘diptych’, but want to comment quickly that your feedback is very appreciated, and will be taken very seriously by Management. And secondly, I found that I could copy/paste your new word seeds into the *title* section in wordpress, so I can see all the words while I write. But I’m sure Emma can come up with a more clever solution. I like the idea of a little notepad on the side containing the day’s words; and another way to put in the words for manana. Manana rules!