06/08 greatest.

Hooray(!) for
1. Red grapefruit halves sprinkled with sugar
2. Old people shuffling down the sidewalks sporting full-body sweatsuits in electric 80s colors
3. Boyfriends who regularly pick wildflowers and cook dinners for their ladies, even after years and years being together (like mine)
4. The newest Wilco album (sub-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot but super-A Ghost Is Born, with upbeat, retro hooks)
5. 1940s-era phrases and exclamations ("Holy mackerel!" "Okay, you mugs!")--and the funny old coots who still use them on a regular basis
6. The silent ferocity of cacti
7. The human-like curiosity of cuttlefish
8. The festivity of blooms in the June sunlight


Additionally, because I'm both strange and verbose and have a penchant for colorful expressions, this month I will attempt to incorporate the following British slang terms into my regular vocabulary. Please join in. Standard American dialect could use a bit of a brush-up.

Sixpence short of a shilling: a term to describe someone who's eccentric. Always useful.
Spitting feathers: thirsty, or fretful/agitated/frantic. (Appropriate for when I begin graduate school this summer term--it will be both hot and stressful, undoubtedly.)
Stonking: impressively large. Also used in place of 'extremely' or 'very,' as in "We had a stonking good time."
Mint and minted: excellent/wonderful, and wealthy, respectively. "The new Woody Allen was mint"; "the guy living up the hill from us is obviously minted..."

Most excellent.