November Is Nasty

Saxophone Day
UN International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
Birthday - John Philip Sousa (composer)

 

Today’s topic is: the weather.

 

Seriously, that’s what everyone is talking about. For some reason today looks like November, with the iron-greyness I’ve mentioned in a previous entry, and the rain and the wind, but it’s all muggy. Heavy and warm and humid and kinda ugly. And aggressive. The trees, no longer satisfied with letting their leaves drift gently to the ground, have moved on to actively pelting us with them.

 

And the campus decided to rot.

 

Nobody’s cleared away the fallen foliage, and now that it’s warm and humid, it’s like going to school at a giant compost heap. Especially the fruity trees. God, I have to walk around ’em.

 

Yurk.

Quote of the Day, Mister Language Person's Division

“You just got Strunked!”

 

Today’s quote brought to you by Strunk & White’s Elements of Style, which expressly forbids verbing nouns and would probably burst into flames in the presence of someone verbing one of its authors’ names to mean “called on a flagrant grammatical error.”

 

Delicious, ain’t it?