tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932682.post-56756511494781521292008-03-18T07:33:00.000-05:002008-03-18T08:00:43.222-05:00Despite my lack of posting on this blog, I actually do write a lot. In my professional career, I write proposals and policy papers and all day long I'm sending out emails and thank you notes. When our Board asked us to add a blog to our website, it was all I could do to not roll my eyes because despite assurances of mass participation and copious content, guess who's going to be posting to said blog 99.99% of the time? That would be me.<br /><br />More words. More writing. More creativity.<br /><br />All good and important things and yet, it takes time and inspiration to be creative. Most people think you can pull together a proposal in a few hours but if you want it to be a successful proposal, it takes hours and days and weeks and sometimes even months. I think that people who think writing isn't work just don't know how to write.<br /><br />But that's not the point...<br /><br />I've been thinking a lot about words for the last few weeks. I have words that I don't care for or always misspell. "Their" never looks right, no matter what the spell check function says. I don't like the word "moist" either, it sounds hollow in my ear and also, ew.<br /><br />There are words though that make me think, make me smile, make me remember. I love those Word-a-Day calendars and have a few on my Bloglines. Unknown words are the best - earlier this week one of the unknown words was "<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&amp;q=peripatetic">peripatetic</a>" which I knew from <a href="http://www.theatredance.com/aclly2.html">A Chorus Line</a>'s "peripatetic, poetic and chic". And then there were two more words that popped up this week... <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=10&amp;q=nefarious">nefarious</a> and <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ersatz">ersatz</a>.<br /><br />Three unrelated words, yet tie together completely to describe a situation in my non-work life. In a world where words rule my show, these three sum up a part of my world that I'm struggling with. So now the real question is.... what do I do about it? Maybe three more words will pop up next week with the answer.mensch71noreply@blogger.com