18 November 2009

Define "Retreat"

So. Only one of these scenarios really happened in the really really world.

You might not know this, but I spent the weekend at a monastery while His Nibs and the kids stayed at home. And do you know what happened there? A whole lot of sex. Serioulsy. Couldn't get away from it. A staggering amount of sex. What's the collective noun for an awful lot of copulation? There was a nuzzle of sex. (Wait; can you *have* a collective noune for a verb? It does seem rather counter-intuitive, doesn't it? Maybe it's a collective adjective then.) There was nuzzling and caressing and humping and fucking every time I turned around. I am *totally* not complaining. At a MONASTERY (and yes, the Benedictines are Roman Catholic).

Now, in the dream I had last night (yes, that first part actually happened), Neuba and her J and their gorgeous baby, and Darth Xander and *his* J and *their* gorgeous baby, and a bunch of people who haven't any gorgeous babies at all were all staying in a hotel of sorts. It seemed to me that Neuba and her J were living in this apartment/condo complex, because they had a bathtub in the main room. It was a large clawfoot tub with coloured water and jets. And Yours Truly was about 5 months pregnant. (**sigh**) I mean, lots of other things happened, but that was the real salient point. Oh, and my mum showed up. She and I and my grandmother had a *really* long conversation last night (thank you, mugwort tea!), but I wasn't expecting to see mum again tonight. She was disdainful of all the crap I'd brought to the hotel/apartment (with good right). She also told me to lose some weight (she's been telling me that since I was eleven, and she's right).

So a big hey to Neuba and her J and their wee wiggler, and to Darth Xander and his J and their wee wobbler. You guys seem to be doing great!

Also, babies and toddlers from now on shall be called 'wigglers and wobblers', and in the store I own that has toys, handmade clothes, and other kidstuff, that's how their section shall be labelled. Make it so.

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8 Comments:

Blogger depthless muser said...

Copulation is also a noun, you know. I think that context would allow it to be a collective noun in an unmodified state. Of course, that doesn't stop me from wanting to call the collective noun coitulation... but maybe that's just me.

18 November 2009 09:36  
Anonymous Smarty Pants said...

Orgy? That's pretty collective.

18 November 2009 12:56  
Blogger cenobyte said...

Smarty Pants, an orgy in and of itself is collective, but it's not a collective noun.

I'm thinking along the lines of a rumination of owls and a fluster of floutists and a pride of lions and an angst of goths.

18 November 2009 13:00  
Anonymous Smarty Pants said...

An orgy of grammerians?

19 November 2009 09:58  
Blogger cenobyte said...

Perhaps an orgy of porn stars?

I would go with a grumble of grammarians, myself.

19 November 2009 10:05  
Anonymous Der Kaptin said...

The question is, did you finish the story with all the acts of congress in it? And where have you submitted it?

20 November 2009 05:31  
Blogger cenobyte said...

DK - I have not finished the story yet. The blasted thing seems to think I'm a novel writer. Bleah.

20 November 2009 18:42  
Anonymous Dour Kaptang said...

Yes, I agree that stories who dream themselves novels are indeed a grievance to those of us whose attention spans typically achieve gnatlike proportions. The horns of a dilemma indeed, to either serve the work like a practicing artist should or SQUIRREL!

23 November 2009 04:31  

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