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indeedsir_backupOkay so today i had a pretty Jeevsian day. First off, while taking roll my teacher always has us answer with a certain subject. Flavors of candy and what have you. Today was 'words'. My word predictably, rather than sharing my not inconsiderable lexicon, was 'ooh-jah-cum-spiff'. this received a collective, "Huh?" from the class and an, "Excuse me?" from the teacher (which was rather disapointing, i am in an upper level Rhetoric class, after all). My explanation went, "It's post-WWI slang...um, used in British literature...Jeeves in Wooster?" And of course i got the predictable, "What, the butler guy online?" as well as scathing remarks of, "Oh yes, clearly." Yeah, i just needed to share my grief.
BUT the Jeevsian-ness of my day really centered on a Paramedic Method video on how to pare down student essays from the 'Official Style' to a more concise one, which was made by a student in UCLA in 1982, but LORD HELP ME, he sounded exactly like Jeeves if he was American. I sat there thinking, "I am getting writing lessons from freakin' Jeeves!" It was so distracting. The tape was all, "The vociferous inclusions of relatively useless prepositions are clearly, though thought to be a superior method..." in a low, rumbling, polite tone of all-knowingness and i was just totally driven to distraction. All i needed was Jeeves-voice to correct a Bertie-voice and i would have died on the spot.
That is why i was having a very gay--i mean, Jeevsian day.
BUT the Jeevsian-ness of my day really centered on a Paramedic Method video on how to pare down student essays from the 'Official Style' to a more concise one, which was made by a student in UCLA in 1982, but LORD HELP ME, he sounded exactly like Jeeves if he was American. I sat there thinking, "I am getting writing lessons from freakin' Jeeves!" It was so distracting. The tape was all, "The vociferous inclusions of relatively useless prepositions are clearly, though thought to be a superior method..." in a low, rumbling, polite tone of all-knowingness and i was just totally driven to distraction. All i needed was Jeeves-voice to correct a Bertie-voice and i would have died on the spot.
That is why i was having a very gay--i mean, Jeevsian day.
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