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I like daisies. Are they classed as weeds?

I love my new windows.

You know your anxiety is bad when...

You're stressing out about eating the last of the bacon before leaving the country for two weeks, worrying about the timing to allow yourself to eat an entire pack of bacon in the next 11 hours and to allow yourself time to throw out the rubbish from the packing on the bacon...whether to do this before you go in the bath so you've no need to handle trash after bathing, after you eat later in the day (in the AM when cooking and walking out the building just to throw out a bacon packing would be both mental and disturb the neighbors), or wait until you head downstairs with your luggage to wait for the taxi.

...this is half of what my brain is dealing with, yet still the least mental my brain gets when I'm allowed to overthink things...it's really tiring.

Have you got any eggs?

I think a few dandelions are very pretty on a lawn... but a lawn taken over by them no longer looks nice - and the rest of the lawn looks dead and ragged. Similarly, a weed in the garden or farm means space and nutrients being stolen from precious food!

America's culture is fascinated with power and violence.

I hate anxiety.

For the 2nd day in a row while driving home from work, I encountered some pidgins using the bottom of a local onramp as a birdbath. And they WON'T MOVE even if you drive right into the middle of them!

Today I drove into the middle of them, and then honked. That got them to move.

I don't know how I pulled a muscle in my neck, but it's awkwardly painful. I'm going to ice it a bit, and feel old.

i googled the phrase "going too far into the weeds' and i found no reference to your usage of the term (also, you should have placed the comma outside of the quotation marks).

as far as assuming that what i say may go "over someone's head" is concerned, i do not think they are too stupid to understand. i am elsewise disappointed at my inability to communicate what i find easy to understand adequately.

nothing is difficult to conceive if one views it from a certain perspective. if i find that perspective, and i suddenly understand a great deal about what i am interrogating, i should be able to relate what i have found using the same simple perspective with which i viewed it in order to understand it.

the smartest people are the ones that can enlighten the uninspired with very simple descriptions of the underlying details of the world in which they live.

i never look down on anyone. if what i say "goes over their head", then i was incorrect in my communicative trajectory.

it does not matter how intelligent a being (any animal) is. their reality of experienced existence is as colorful and as complete as any human regardless of their intelligence.

"smart" means nothing when compared to complexity of the entirety of existence.

i avoid cutting dandelions with my mower. i see bees dancing around them from my window, and i become extremely reticent to end their routines,

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I will never know why every single couple in this town chooses to have their wedding ceremony on Windmill Hill (basically a little reserve overlooking the ocean). There is a bunch of ribbon decorated cars parked there ever weekend. I would have liked to have my hypothetical wedding at Roto House but that appears to be too popular too. Dinky Rollands Plains chapel it is

I ain't cutting my hair for two years and seven days.

Finals are coming up, and I'm nervous.

(From "Word Detective", see link below.) "Of course, some tasks actually require 'getting into the weeds,' dealing with small but important details, such as the minutiae of financial or legislative analysis (“A panel of lawmakers is starting to ‘get into the weeds,’ as one state senator put it, and are hoping to write first drafts of possible new laws by the end of the summer..." It seems to be used a lot in political policy discussions, which is where I have repeatedly heard it.
http://www.word-detective.com/2011/05/g ... the-weeds/



I agree completely about the comma/quote-mark use. But for many years, including all the years that I was in school, in the US the grammar standard required that comma position to be inside the quote mark. It totally was not logical, and the reason they always gave us was that it was due to the limitations of the early printing presses in England. That's what they always said, anyway. In recent years the grammar standard has more or less changed to outside the quote-mark, but I sometimes forget that.

I'm really tired of hearing all about a former president's entire extended family. Not news, people.