I'm not sure why, but over the past few days my brain has decided to shut off mid-sentence. Not when I'm just muttering to myself, no ... there has to be someone else around to impress. Phone calls in particular seem to bring out the worst cases. Several times - more than I'd like to admit at this point - I'll be formulating an otherwise perfectly acceptable sentence, and whatever lobe it is that produces adjectives blinks hopefully for a moment, and then sputters to a complete halt. Dead Air. Seconds tick by. It's really quite disconcerting. I'd like to think that my recent jump in Time Spent Reading might have something to do with it. With all of those new syllables needing shelf space for the GREs, one should expect some reorganization along the way. I just wasn't expecting some of the old workhorses like 'toothpaste' , 'redundant' or 'haggle' to get tossed without notice. (Toothpaste in particular caught me by surprise. I spent ten very focused seconds this morning holding a tube of Crest, starting at the blue paste it had produced and totally unable to come up with a convincing noun.) Becca suggested that I write more, surmising that that there might be some connection between blogging and speaking that neither of us were aware of. I'm willing to give it a shot, but if anyone else has a better suggestion, I would happily take them up on it.

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Annabelle (last time i checked)
fyi, very simple things can mess with memory function from lack of water, poor sleep to prescription drugs. there's a cool VSI book on Memory on the Oxford Press website: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780192806758 . if it's any consolation, I've been getting my brothers names the wrong way round for about 21 years. And tootpaste is a much sillier word than "Haggle".

Carla
hey I had a black Russian the other night and thought of you, and that little bar under our room in Greece. Oh! And if you read less harry potter "haggle" may not even be in your vocabulary. What is your favorite Pie?