- Sorry that these are late but I am a mother of two now as u know.
- Womp womp. E had a temperature yesterday so now we have to isolate until we get a Covid19 test. As we donāt have a car we have to get the postal one. I know E just has a cold and even as I type this her temperature has gone away and sheās just a bit snotty, but the guidance is what it is. Have a temperature? Isolate and get tested.
- We had several plans for this week that will all have to be changed until we have a negative test result. My dad was going to come up for his birthday and meet his grandson for the first time, Registering Cās birth, BCG for C, long awaited haircut for me. Anyway. If weāre lucky, weāll know by Wednesday and some of those plans will go through. (PRAY 4 THE HAIRCUT PPL)
- This week I watched The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind on Netflix, which was great and based on a true story.
- We watched A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood which I also really liked, although it has Tom Hanks in it and there was something about his slightly pudgy face that I found a bit distracting (Sorry Tom). This film was based on a true story about the writing of this article. This film made me want to try being a really nice and good person who says slightly weird things to people but only because they so forcefully believe people are important.
- At some point, I have started starting sentences about something I think with āI meanā. The skit in the Kanye song āGet āem Highā has a good impression of someone who says āI meanā a lot.
(You mean Talib, lyrics stick to your rib?) I mean (Thatās my favorite CD that I play in my crib) I mean (You donāt really know him, whyās you lying?)
- Previously I would have said āItās likeā, or āIām likeā. I remember being a teenager and my dad making fun of me for starting sentences with ālikeā as if he had never picked up any kind of linguistic affectation but only spoke completely grammatically conformant english.
- This follow up interview with the original writer of āCan you say heroā - the article on which that Mr Rogers film is based, says āI meanā 14 times.
- I suppose āI meanā is just one of those linguistic trends along with ālikeā, āvocal fryā and high rise terminals that are prevalent in some groups (of young women?) and annoy others (older men?).