so yesterday at work my boss carl, who i finally realized looks similar to ben stiller in happy gilmore and his voice sounds like beetle juice's voice, says to me i notice you keep looking at my hat (which is black and ugly and covered in harley-davidson pins). now this is partially true because i tend to look at the head and face of the person who is talking to me, this must be a weird habit. any way then he makes me follow him to see his motor cycle. he then is like this is my riding hat. of course the first thing that comes to my mind being the safety concious freak i am is that his riding hat with the pins on it will only grind into his head more with the pavement if he should get in an accident. he was not wearing any leather either. people today, just muddling through. how will he enjoy his great motorcycle if he is dead or a vegetable?

so uhhhh yeah

this is rich:

chagrin shuh-GRIN, noun:

Acute vexation, annoyance, or embarrassment, arising from disappointment or failure.

transitive verb:

To unsettle or vex by disappointment or humiliation; to mortify.

He ran away to the recruiting office at Ottumwa(WHAT?), a river port where Union soldiers were transported east--how he got to the town, a good half-day journey by wagon, isn't clear--and to his chagrin, he found his father waiting there. --Allen Barra, [1]Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends

He noted with chagrin how little hair clung to his head. --John Marks, [2]The Wall

Rich Moroni was earning $20,000 a year as a cook and was chagrined to discover that he couldn't keep up with the style of life and spending of his preferred reference group -- the lawyers and executives who shared his passion for squash and belonged to the same health club. --Peter T. Kilborn, "Splurge," [3]New York Times, June 21, 1998

Chagrined to find that her current boyfriend has become best pals with her ex-boyfriend Hank, she goes to her ex with the problem. --Stephen J. Dubner, "Boston Rockers," [4]New York Times, July 26, 1998

Chagrin is from the French, from chagrin, "sad."

Synonyms: vexation, mortification.

"Vexation arises chiefly from our wishes and views being crossed; mortification, from our self-importance being hurt; chagrin, from a mixture of the two." --Crabb.

if those were not good enough these are even better:

derring-do (DER-ing DOO) noun

Daring acts, often tinged with recklessness.

[From Middle English dorryng do (daring to do) misprinted as derrynge do and interpreted as a noun form.]

"Kids and mice -- can't beat the combination.(WHAT? again) That's what the creators of children's entertainment seem to think, since they're forever casting versions of the adorable mus musculus domesticus (that's house mouse, since you ask) in tales of derring-do for the younger set." Zofia Smardz, Watch Your Whiskers, The Washington Post, Mar 31, 2002.

"David McTaggart, founder of Greenpeace, died on March 23rd, aged

68. ... Their raw material was publicity, much of it gained by derring-do exploits of Greenpeace's front-line `soldiers'. Mr McTaggart would be first over the top. He continued his war with the French over nuclear testing, again visiting Mururoa. The angry French retaliated in 1985 by blowing up a Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, in Auckland harbour, killing one person aboard." Obituary: David McTaggart, The Economist (London), Apr 7, 2001.

and

zenith (ZEE-nith, ZEN-ith) noun

1. The point on the celestial sphere that's directly above the

observer, opposite of nadir.

2. The highest point, acme, culmination.

[From Middle English zenith, from Old French cenith, from Old Spanish zenit incorrectly copied from Arabic samt (path), in the sense of "path over the head", opposite of nadir.]

"Unlike Huntington, I therefore maintain that clashes of

civilizations reached their peak in the age of imperialism, the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Europe's world dominance was at its zenith." Sato Seizaburo, Clash of Civilizations or Cross-fertilization of Civilizations?, Japan Echo (Tokyo), Oct 1997.

pretty cool, huh

so yesterday on my way to a grad party and little shop in down town hudson a man who looked very much like hulk kulkin(sp?) ran infront of my car carrying many bags. i was confused.

today i went to 5 graduation parties and my parents bbq. i never want to eat food again. i would like to do and finish shadow puppets now. good bye.