Comments on: The Kind of Girl Who … totally cops out of a much-ballyhooed blog entry

By: That Kind of Girl

That Kind of Girl — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:04:56 +0000

hahaha, omg, I love that! Totally been there, dude. Totally, totally been there. Is this a recent blog entry? Digging through your archives to find it…

By: LiLu

LiLu — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:19:09 +0000

I gave up on “Effortless Cool” in the 7th grade.

To the Entire World:

You’re WELCOME.

By: carissajaded

carissajaded — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:16:40 +0000

I am kind of guilty of stalking, both in cyber world and real life. To be more accurate, just take “kind of” out of the last sentence.
I love that you chilled outside the bar to make your fashionably late entrance. I would have done the same thing.

Actually the other day I went to the bar where a guy I like works.. when he realized I was there, I acted like I didnt know he worked there… which he totally knew was a lie. And then I told him i loved him in a text message and then blogged about it, and I just found out he read it. I so went off topic right there but I couldn’t write it on my own blog and had to tell someone!

By: Dhsu

Dhsu — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:13:05 +0000

And this right here is why I read your blog in the first place.

By: That Kind of Girl

That Kind of Girl — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:15:36 +0000

Oh, dude, don’t even get me started on how much people get on me for the way I talk here. I mean, aside from the “like”s and “dude”s. People think I’m stuck up all the time but it’s like, dude, in order to make words do stuff you, um, have to have words at your disposal.

I’m especially taking heat for it right now in the writing extension classes I’m taking, where my fellow students aren’t exactly red-hot with the whole articulation racket. I tend to write pretty closely to how I speak slash inner monologue, which apparently rankles. Last week, a story I wrote got workshopped and I got absolutely mauled in re: the sex scene, of all things. The class gave me a ten minute — a ten-minute — ensemble lecture about how nobody mentally catalogues their partner in four-syllable words in media res. It’s like, dude, do you people even have orgasms?

So yeah. I don’t tone down my SAT words. (Except when I was teaching the SAT, ironically enough. Turns out seventeen-year-olds pretty categorically don’t know what “patently” means.)

By: Francie

Francie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:27:55 +0000

Wait… is “skulking” really that esoteric of a word? I think I use it quite often.

This feeds into a whole crisis I’ve been having lately: Does using vocab past a seventh-grade level make you seem stuck up? Once you’ve left the hallowed halls of Prestigious West Coast University, should you tone down the amount of SAT words in your daily speech?

I’ve been wondering this… just this summer I have dated two boys, one of whom was in law school but didn’t believe that the word “guffaw” existed, another that is in Prestigious State University, yet neither he (nor his friends) understood why I was shocked that they had a friend named Lolita. (No, seriously. None had even heard of the book. What???)

People that have known me for a really short time–like, less than two weeks–always tell me that I am “so smart,” despite the fact that I have already spilled coffee twice down my shirt, knocked over a book table and accidentally quit out of the computer program too many times to count–and it’s not even noon. Is it my choice of words? Am I seeming like a total douchebaguette without even realizing it?

By: Greta

Greta — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:46:26 +0000

After almost 2 weeks away from surfing my favorite blogs, I am glad to be back and catching up on your escapades!

By: That Kind of Girl

That Kind of Girl — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:27:57 +0000

Yeah, I always call myself a Hamlet, and the uninitiated assume it’s because I’m an anxious intellectual. Honestly? I’m usually skulking behind a dang drapery (dagger optional).

By: sandyb

sandyb — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:01:58 +0000

I think it’s solid that you used “skulking” in a sentence. serious.