2 Posts in 1 Day Makes Margie A Dull Whore
Friday, March 23, 2007
I was bored the moment I woke up today. The very instant I opened my eyes. Was in a pretty irritable state because of it too, but I didn't really do anything about it until about an hour ago, when I finally hauled my ass out of my computer hole to grab more MineShine and menthols at Ministop. The last time I was out of the house was to get MineShine and menthols at Ministop. Days ago. Laugh at me.
It started to rain a few blocks into my midnight walk. It's incredible how everything instantly becomes farther away once it rains. I only had my hoodie, so I ended up sitting for a while in front of a hardware store, crouched like someone about to knife the next passerby. When I finally got to the store, I bought the stuff I had told myself to buy and sat on the stools facing outside. Offered an ample reflection of the goings-on inside. A testosterone-fest, to my enjoyment. Two bayaws were picking on this Jarvis Cocker lookalike, I don't know why, and it got so heated that Cocker boy up and left in his snow white Beetle, and the bayaws dallied by the curb, puffing away on their cigarettes and making jerky, who ya got, motherfucker? motions towards the streetkids. There was an old bum sitting next to the bayaws. He was sipping from a mineral water bottle. Eensy-weensy, conservative sips, as if his bottle contained the last few ounces of water on Earth, the steady rainfall meaning squat. I walked back the moment the rain let up. The edges of my jogging pants mopped the road up pretty well.
But enough of this hackneyed paragraph. Enough of waxing, um, whatever adjective is apt to wax at this moment. How did that term come about, anyway? Wait. Let me Google.
It comes from Old English 'weaxan', meaning the same as German 'wachsen,' namely to grow, to increase in size (like the waxing moon), or to assume or reach a certain quality or state of development.
It is also interesting to note that that the Old English ‘weaxan,’ grow, which is Germanic in origin, and related to the Dutch ‘wassen’ and the German ‘waschen’ derives from an Indo-European root (which I believe is ‘woks-’) shared by Greek ‘auxanein’ and the ‘Latin’ ‘augere,’ to increase, which is ultimately the root of such words as ‘auction’ (increase the bid), ‘augment’ (make larger, increase), auxiliary (additional), and ‘eke’ (increase, enlarge, lengthen) and ‘eke out’ (supplement, add to, to make [a living], support [existence] laboriously).
O, tara. 2 a.m. pa lang. Sound trip muna tayo.
posted by marguerite @ 1:00 AM
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