Plan B

[muckefuck]

Friday was a day of frustration turned around thanks to febrile. Five phone calls to two different agencies and I still hadn't gotten my prescription refilled. (Two more phone calls and another visit to the pharmacy later and I'm just as empty-handed, but that's a rant for another time.) At loose ends after a flurry of phone calls in the drizzle and traffic noise outside of Safeminick's established that spookyfruit was stranded in Buffalo by weather at ORD and welcomerain was too busy to go out, I hit upon the idea of making a long-overdue call to Our Favourite Okie for an ever more overdue visit to Konak. Just before I reached his voice mail, my perfidious phone ("Don't worry, I'm all charged up!") died ("Oh, sorry, I lied! I'm really tapped out!").

But it all worked itself out and, a couple hours later, we were discussing cognitivie semantics over beers and pepperoni pizza. I got just about the nicest compliment a body could get when he told me he enjoyed hearing me hold forth on linguistics because of how my love of the subject came through when I did. That alone would've made my night. So would niemandsrose gushing to me about learning the word Idioticon and informing me that it's been used in English as well as German.[*]

Konak was in itself a pleasant revelation.[#] I'd passed it dozens of times without more than a cursory glance due to the impression that it was another uninteresting yuppie watering hole rather than a comfy hangout for theatre people owned and operated by a woofy Turkish daddy.

[*] I had my new word right after all: paraphyletic, which the OED defines as "Of a group or taxon: comprising a number of organisms whose most recent common ancestor had other evolutionary descendants not included in the same group or taxon, and hence excluded from cladistic classifications on account of being defined only by shared primitive characteristics." As useful for linguistic taxonomy as it is for biological.

[#] We were both half-wrong, febrile. Definitions found in an online dictionary: "1. mansion, large and imposing house.
2. stopping place, place to spend to the night [while traveling].
3. bivouac, temporary encampment; billet.
4. [a] day´s journey.
5. scurf [on the head of a newborn baby].
6. biol. host."

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[febrile.livejournal.com]

I had a great time as well, and am always grateful when anyone will allow me to hold forth on my (too numerous) theories about "Like a Rolling Stone...."