Sometimes I think there’s something wrong with me. Yeah, I know I’m setting myself up with this one, but I really do. For example, I was working on Vengeance Interruptus, and I was trying to think of a word to describe something as translucent . . . except “translucent” didn’t come to mind. “Diaphanous” did. Now I was fairly positive that diaphanous is a word, but I wasn’t sure of its meaning. I at least figured I was using it in the wrong context. So I looked it up on Dictionary.com — which along with Thesaurus.com make up two of my favorite web sites, I might add — and here’s what I got:

1. very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent.
2. delicately hazy.

See? Who the fuck comes up with diaphanous first when trying to think of something transparent? Me, that’s who. It’s like I have some sort of nerd complex when it comes to my lexicon. Sheesh.

JAB