Yay! First decent post in ages. To tell you the truth, there's been quite alot going on, but ironically I seem to be blogging when nothing is going on and then I type out pure nonsense. But anyway. News on the farm this week is that yours truly has found a very cosy flat, with 5 female flatmates (oh yes Im feeling the love from all the males out there....) who are all between the ages of 20 and 23. Very fetching. Flat includes huge rooms, two bathrooms, tv with cable (not the wire obviously) and gym equipment. Meh. Guess whose bum is going to be extra firm next year! hahahahaha

Recently Ive been thinking about words and the human tendency to try and conjure up a mental image of abstract terms. Take the word love. I bet when you say it some image of pink bubbles or whatnot fills your mind. Ok maybe not exactly that but you know what I mean. Its human nature to try and put a visual tag on everything.

Now, my grievance lies in some words that are plainly, crappily constructed. (And yes, Im enough of a language nerd to post ridiculousness like this)

Infatuation. If it comes to being in love, people do not want to be reminded of the word fat. Especially not the female variety among us. It sounds like being bloated. "Im so infatuated." "Oooh, sorry to hear about that..." Why couldnt it have been inflituated, which sounds more flightly and airy?

Puberty. Its just too close to pubic. Too....close. But conversely maybe there's a reason why it sounds like it does, because face it, the lifestage in question is about nothing more than writing suicide poetry (read: emo) (no offence mike) , thinking the world is conspiring against you, having bad skin, and mourning the loss of countless crushes that, truthfully, don't know you exist.

Penalize For the imaginationally blessed out there, you can figure this one out, why it sounds wrong, its conjures up images of probing. Of course it depends on how you pronounce it. I have trouble stifling giggles when someone uses it in a serious public speech...

And, like Soffy pointed out earlier , Subpoena. Im not even going to start. Sounds too much like a foreign cousin of a whale that has no blow hole.