can I get a witness?

[fflo]

I can, it seems.

Late last night I found myself feeling less crazy than I have in I don't know how long, after good long chat with O.

I love April Fool's Day and feel a tug at wanting to do a bogus entry here in its honor and on the occasion of it and in order to help raise it, by adding my voice, to the greater glory holiday that it should be, but I feel more of a draw to tell this: the news with me is that I'm not so very nuts. Under the circumstances, it'd be nuts not to be nuts, so, therefore, because I've been nuts, I've been not so nuts at all.

If that doesn't make sense, that's okay. Not everything makes sense; to try to make it so doesn't always---well, make sense.


Aside: I often find myself saying "That makes sense" to people in conversation, where others might say "uh-hunh" or "I follow ya" or their own version of an affirmative or indicator of active listening. In response to being thanked for some ordinary courtesy, I seem to go most naturally to "Sure" as another might say "no problem" or "you're welcome." And, after actively affecting the greeting "howdy" as a youth, any more I must actively repress it if the situation feels as if I'll be taken as contemptably hokey, or, say, affected by uttering that version of "hello" which now most naturally comes out of my mouth.

Comments

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, you and I are nearly identical as far as the conversational interjections you listed. "That makes sense"? Check. "Sure" instead of "you're welcome"? Check. Repression of "howdy" after an adolescence full of howdies? Check.

Weeeiiirrrrrrddd.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Clearly a sign of moral superiority! or of _____ [fill in the blank as you like & I'll buy it].

[madush69.livejournal.com]

I've been saying "No Sweat" an awful lot latel...even when I'm completely drenched from the exertion required to complete whatever task it may have been.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

oh, I like the sweaty "no sweat"!

ever say "no duh"? that one always strikes me funny

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

I love that you seem to feel more at ease, psychologically speaking, on april fool's. Like halloween and mardi gras, another good holiday for us freaks and tricksters.

Btw, a. and I have canadian friends, urban, who are really put off by yanks like us who say "sure" instead of "you're welcome." It took some playing that culturally, where I come from, "you're welcome" can make people feel a little put upon. Like they really really *should* be thanking you more than feeling welcome.

And next weekend, yes, we will do fun things taking you out of the quarantined house!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I like to think it's implied that people are welcome to my everyday considerate gestures. I don't give them begrudgingly, and I don't need to certify their welcomeness to them, y'know? "Sure" seems to say "Think nothing of it" or something nice like that.

The only thing that puts me off about Canadians is how they don't seem to wear hats in the winter. At least in Vancouver. I feel like a wimp wanting/needing one, with all those bare Canuck heads around me on the streets.

Quarantine starts Monday the 11th, actually. But I'll want distraction while he's out of town over the weekend, fer sure. And then I'll try to be out a lot the following week. Or quietly freelancing in the bedroom, to which I'll be moving the computer---trying not to let on to him that I'm home too much.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

and yeah---the freak/trickster holiday: dig it. and thanks for the good words. i'm glad of the little boost too, and hoping to sustain it for a bit.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

what's te quarantine about? I close on my house in two days! My Wisconsin relatives would often say "Sure" instead of "You're welcome." So I've done it myself for a long while, too. It's sort of modest, I think. Surprised Canadians wouldn't like it.