Best Man-girl

So I am sitting Boston's Logan airport on Friday afternoon. I have spent the week with one of my dearest friends and her new husband. She lives in the South of France with her bf/new-hub and they were planning on coming over for a week of vacation - see some sights, friends, shopping and good American food. We all thought......

A few weeks ago she and I were on Skype - a totally fantastic way to communicate these days - and she told me that while they were over here, she & the then bf were going to get married by her father who is a priest.....I mean really what do you say other then "where do I fly into and when?"

I got into White Plains, NY tuesday afternoon for a whirl-wind adventure of a marriage between my dearest friend and her very French bf. Now, once I told them that I was coming to witness the nuptials, the bf asked me to be his best man...girl. He had never met any of her family in the states and as I was the only one to know him, I fit the bill.

They were married on St. Paddy's day in a beautiful stone church by her father. It really was a fantastic thing to be part of.

We spent the next two days eating, drinking, being merry, drinking and eating. Seriously, I have had it with eating out for a good month and am looking forward to a good detox!!

The new French hub (with the help of my dear friend), for my efforts of being Best Man-girl, let me pick out my thank you/you rock gift. And what did I pick.....a pink flamingo of course which we named Otis.

So here I sit in Boston's Logan airport after seeing them off at the taxi queue with Otis the pink flamingo hanging out of my carry-on bag wondering the best place for it in my apartment. Which is really so much more fun than thinking of all the work I have to go back to.

Spring Break 2010 was really no break at all, but I would not have it any other way.

I learned two new words this week, both pertaining to my current work (or the people I learned these words from say so).

Ovidio to me (paraphrased from memory) -

Ovi: 'Your work has a certain level of fecundity, especially if you......blah blah blah' (I quit listening here because I was intrigued, shocked and in love with this new word.....no idea what it means)

Me: 'Excuse me? What was that word again? Fecunt? Awesome!!!'

Ovi: 'No, no...fecundity meaning fertile, growing, like bacteria....'

Me: 'Wow! Thanks Ovi!'

Now to look it up...and listen to it (my favorite part)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fecund

Main Entry: fe·cund

Pronunciation: \ˈfe-kənd, ˈfē-\

Function: adjective

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin fecundus — more at feminine

Date: 15th century

1 : fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific
2 : intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree

synonyms see fertile

— fe·cun·di·ty \fi-ˈkən-də-tē, fe-\ noun

Prolific, feminine, fruitful, inventive, fertile....what a wonderful word - top 5!

Megan to me (paraphrased from memory) -

Megan: 'That looks like a giant grandma's vagina'

Me: ' Really? You think so? Not quite what I was going for, but I will take it.'

Megan: 'So, my sister just wrote a paper on Islam - (serious paraphrasing) - the idea of the burqa covering the female form because she her entire body is seen as a external manifestation of her genitalia. There is this word...pundenta, punta, pudendal....'

Me: 'What is that word again?'

Megan: 'Pudendal....it is amazing that a woman could be seen as a giant, walking pudendal - I think that is the word.'

Time to look it up -

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pudenda

Main Entry: pu·den·dum

Pronunciation: \pyu̇-ˈden-dəm\

Function: noun

Inflected Form(s): plural pu·den·da \-də\

Etymology: New Latin, singular of Latin pudenda, from neuter plural of pudendus, gerundive of pudēreto be ashamed

Date: 1634

: the external genital organs of a human being and especially of a woman —usually used in plural

— pu·den·dal \-d^əl\ adjective

- especially of a woman and coming from the Latin: to be ashamed

Me: 'Well, I will take the of feminine origin and the external genetaila part.....shove the ashamed part!'

Then begins a conversation about men/women gaze, sexual power, eroticism and ends with a bucket of penises somewhere in the Vatican.

So, two new words this week - Fecundity and Pudendal - to which I say, Juicy!

Need to Transcribe

Well I said I would not do it and here I have gone and done it...blog that is. It really comes down to practicality - typing versus writing, a convenient location for all my rambles (the computer) versus a notebook which is falling apart from over use.

I caved.

Now I need to transcribe all the writings I have thus done in my dilapidated notebook, re-visit the ramblings and figure out if the t is really a f. Take a look at the pages in which I quickly wrote ideas down and see if anything makes sense. What if it doesn't? Then the need to transcribe becomes a need to re-write.

I caved.