Welcome To My Hyphenated-Phrasal-Adjectives Extravaganza

Someone please remind me that I don't NEED any more media to suck up my time! I already have beaucoups of RSS feeds over on the left, tons of buddies/contacts on the right, an e-mail inbox that overflows on a nightly basis, and thousands (literally, thousands) of songs in my reduced library iTunes (reduced on this computer). Yet, I cannot... CANNOT, I tell you... keep myself from subscribing to additional podcasts and RSS feeds. I'm a clicker. I've told you this before. If it's got a catchy headline or hook, I'm on it. In today's notable viewables:

• Seinfeld's Productivity Secret: What a good idea... a tangible don't-break-the-chain reminder to work, write, play, exercise, practice, etc. every single day. By the way, if you didn't notice (or understand) my previous post, I get to start my own unbreakable chain I-ran-today calendar. Kudos to me for actually doing what I said I was going to do. If only I could do that all the time.


• Another notable quotable on Back in Skinny Jeans: "The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself" (Anna Quindlen)... I should really go back to reading some Anna. I had it out and halfway read when I got bored or distracted or something.


• Jay Bakker has a church: Revolution NYC, and it's probably not what you'd expect from the son of Jim & Tammy Faye. But I'm a fan. Jay strikes me a a good guy; and from the one "sermon" I listened to (via podcast, which got me started looking for other interesting podcasts that I won't have time to listen to), he's a good minister, too.


• OH YEAH, and the one site I probably spent the most time exploring today (I know... don't worry, Haley has already explained to me how much of a nerd I am for loving on this... of course, she's just as guilty!): The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Okay, so I don't use Chicago style all that often (I think I have my own style, truth be told); but most of you know how much I appreciate the rules of style. My colleagues sure as heck know... I'm known around the office for my maniacal editing. If you need to know Chicago style for writing out numbers, abbreviating degrees, italicizing/underlining/whatever titles of published works, making collective nouns singular or plural (with appropriate verb agreement) based on whichever trait (group/individuals) you want to emphasize, or (my personal VERY-fave) utilizing hyphenated phrasal adjectives, I'm your girl. I'm SUCH the fan, by the way (as, of course, you already know), of hyphenated phrasal adjectives. I'm sure the good folks over at the online CMoS would call me a too-obsessive over-user. I love that my random join-these-words-to-make-an-adjective tendencies now have a super-scientific enjoyably-lengthy name: hyphenated phrasal adjectives. It just sounds so pretty!

So, I have an idea for Blogger. I tend to keep Merriam-Webster up in another tab/window of my IE browser as I'm writing a post. It's kind of a badge of honor for me that I use at least one hard-to-spell (or should-be-looked-up-for-proper-usage) word in each of my posts. I enjoy expanding my mind by writing with a decent vocabulary (and yours by reading it). Anyway, why doesn't Blogger have a built-in spellcheck and set of reference tools like the Microsoft programs do? I love my M-W.com, but built-in would be BONUS! Have any of you used the Google Docs online apps to know whether/not they have such added blessings? I can't tear myself away from Word and Excel to find out for myself. Anyway, just a thought.