Note to self.
Write thoughts down when they come to me.
I spent several hours out of the office today, most of them driving. While listening to the radio, several subjects cropped up that I felt compelled to comment on here. In fact, in my head I considered my position in depth, argued with myself a little to make sure I wasn’t being unreasonable (never let it be said there isn’t something positive to be found in multiple personality disorders) and then wrote a long and detailed post about each subject.
I had at least four posts lined up. Four things that piqued my interest enough that I devoted some brain time to them but now; now, as I wait for a very large data set to restore during a server migration and so have a few idle moments, I can remember… absolutely NOTHING about the thoughts previously described.
And so I find myself instead writing about forgetting what I wanted to write. Wow, that’s really interesting.
I just heard a radio interview with the playwright Alan Bennett who has donated his life’s records, scribblings, notes and drafts to Oxford University’s Bodleian Library. In my position as a cultural inadequate I can’t say I’m familiar with his work though I dare say I am but simply don’t know it. I’ve probably watched TV adaptations of his work and just never really noticed. Anyway, the point (while I remember it) is that in describing the grant he received as a result of his gaining a scholarship to Oxford he used the word “munificent“. (In the context that the grant was “sufficient but not munificent”). I like this word a lot. You might say that my liking of the word is itself munificent. It seems like a very fine word and I’d never heard it before today. I intend to use it in the very next conversation that I can’t avoid having.
Well what do you know, I just had a conversation with myself (very very difficult to avoid sometimes) and I used the word. So there you go. Next I shall try it out on someone not inside my head.
Clearly this is a ridiculous title. I was driving. How was I supposed to have written blog thoughts down? Note to self. Make achievable goals.