Urban Poly Princess

Choir was good. I'm glad Cindy came today. Following her is easier for me than following Rachel who is our only other strong Alto. We didn't have much of a turnout. I know Domoina is out of town with Amphay, Yuri, and a couple other Asian girls I don't really know in the ward. They keep posting their pictures from their roadtrip. Nice but not something I could or even want to do. I think that's alright, at least I feel alright with it. Lulu wanted to plan a trip. I want to get married and go on a trip with my husband. Forget the girlfriend thing. I'm not into female-bonding. I can do that with the women in my family. I wish I could say I met someone gorgeous or that someone amazing spiritually was there that I can be interested in even a little BUUUT NOOO NO ONE!!!

I did see Jason who really impressed me at first. I still like how he treats people. I have seen him twice go out of his way to include someone in a conversation. He is just really close to this girl Caleen in my ward and she is freaky into Steve. Whenever I saw them hanging out it felt like they were conspiring to take me out of Steve's orbit. Weird but true. Why someone would do something like that is beyond me but I didn't like it at all. They never did anything it's just a feeling I had. It did not support my good opinion of Jason. Jason has inserted himself into my orbit lately which would be great if I didn't feel like it was some sort of calculated move just to turn me away from Steve.

I have 3 more hours of this Korean soap opera I'm watching in-between going to Facebook and then coming on here. Steve posted something about how people are using nouns as verbs more now and used epic fail vs. failure as an example. Darcy wrote an entire paragraph trying to explain the prescriptive/descriptive argument and even went on to describe the their use as singular instead of the formal he or she - I wrote that I always tell people grammar is descriptive not prescriptive and that the meaning of words are constantly changing AND I like that. Steve's friends all seem to be entirely in his camp. IT IS how I feel however and I'm not going to change that for Steve or ANYONE.

YES clarity is important to me and I've edited more things than I'd like BUUUT so is communication as a whole and knowing as many second-language English speakers the way I do, it gets on my nerves when people are impatient with them or correct their errors maliciously AND this is done quite a bit. I was a freaking English major and I've done more than my fair share of editing so much that I see mistakes everywhere and wish I could fix them with a glare. That is why newsrooms and stations use vocal AND written style guides. It is why I used to teach APA writing where format is EVERYTHNG even where and if you put a damn period in a certain place in the references. It is for clarity and publishing when editors should be able to understand something right away when they have to comb through manuscripts.

If someone is going to use a superior arrogant tone when they exert their grammar-nazi muscles they are better off shutting the hell up. I hope Steve isn't like that. I don't think he is - he is kind enough to that special needs guy in my ward that he'd go out of his way to spend time with Steve. Slang is often used by people from a disadvantaged or lower socioeconomic class too. Criticizing the way people speak and demanding that everyone conform to a certain "correct" way of speaking is NOOOT something I will ever support. I always suspected Steve and I held very different political views. I'm glad he's posting more so I can learn more about these even if we will never spend any time alone together.