Comments:

Kell - 2003-09-26 02:54:06
If you want to turn off that dang annoying MS Word grammar "helper", do something like this (My MS Word's old, but yours will likely be similar): Click on: Tools Options Spelling and Grammar Uncheck "Check grammar as you type". Help Desk Ticket No. 6.7/8 is: resolved.
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BrianO - 2003-09-26 13:24:25
Ahh, the Valley. Like everyone who grew up there, I hated it and wanted to leave. But I feel very close to it now and I'm sure I'll be going back some day. It is changing though. It's becoming much more suburban, which I don't like. Keep my Valley the same antiquated, backwards place it's always been! As for not being Aimee the Survivor anymore, now you're Aimee the Builder, Aimee the Self-Creator, Aimee the Autoenabler (although that sounds vaguely Onanistic) or Aimee the All Powerful. You now become whatever you will yourself to be. And you write about it so the rest of us can find out. I'm not sure if I'd recommend you writing about the Louse for Nanowrimo. You're going to be spending the whole month writing about this, spending all that time with those feelings. Are you sure you want to do that? And no, you're not shallow if you base your feelings about somebody on a conversation. For godsake, that's what you're supposed to do. You don't like him because he didn't hold up his end of a conversation. Not because he was fat, or skinny, or blond, or brunette, or a little person, or cross-eyed. You based your feeling on his reactions to you in conversation. That's perfectly legitimate. (And talk about rambling. Who needs transitions between paragraphs?)
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BrianO - 2003-09-26 13:24:58
Oops, or paragraph markings. Damn HTML. Damn memory.
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Aimee - 2003-09-26 22:53:46
Thanks for the Word advice, Kell. Let's see if the stickler in me will remember to do that come writing time.

Brian, thanks so much for your (as always) thoughtful and considerate and constructive comments, I really appreciate it!!

I had a feeling you would get my Valley ramblings. It's unlike anywhere I've ever known. It's backwards and antiquated, like you said, but I feel entirely too loyal and defensive about it, even though I only lived there for six months when I was five! Although I was born in Derby (which, I didn't know until last night, is the smallest city in CT - who knew?)

I've gotta think about NaNoWriMo - I'm stuck in that I can't think about anything else to write about, although I am perfectly happy to let the words take me where they will, and abandon the idea if something better comes up.

Aimee the Autoenabler - I love it!
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