quandary

now there's an interesting word

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can you be out of a quandary?

or sitting next to a quandary, on a bench? can a quandary jump up from behind and scare the living daylights out of you? can a quandary swim lazily alongside you as you splash in a Cambridge water meadow on a hot summer day? does a quandary ever send you a gift, for no particular reason. . . have interesting conversations with you. . . make you feel ever so slightly happier because it's in your life. . . bring a smallish smile to your face. . . make you cringe with awkwardness. . .

what does a quandary feel like? is it gritty, oily, silky, do little shards of it break off into your skin as you touch it and make you bleed

does it have a smell? citrus, with a hint of vanilla that doesn't quite go, and perhaps a bluff charcoal note

it is very quiet, this quandary - it makes no sounds whatsoever: in fact, on the noise front, a quandary is the audible equivalent of a black hole, sucking in murmurings and cracklings and whistlings and hummings and buzzing from all around - at such a force that in their ambient backgroundness these rustlings almost become overwhelming; but the quandary itself is silence

what does it taste like? bittersweet, I can bet - really sharp and acidic, it makes you gasp for breath and yet at the same time you want more of its sickly sugaryness; strangely there is a crystal of salt in there too, melting on your tongue

it is deepest aubergine in colour, part matt part shiny
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. . .or can you only ever be in a quandary?

because that is where I find myself, dear reader

yes, you (you!) (not you at the back, lurking (I know you're there, but I've given up worrying about your presence) ("silence is golden" and all that) (apart from the singing, of course) (you are off key) (way off)

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*sigh*

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(about the quandary, not the lurking hordes)
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what do I do. . .
what do I do. . .
I don't know

so I'm going to do nothing (if in doubt, do nowt); and then, when I get bored of that, I'll have another think about it

SHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. . .(e)

I was s'posed to go see SHE yesterday

I didn't

GUESS WHAT????
the scary woman actually phoned me up instead. . .

now, I don't usually answer my phone to avoid exactly this: having a conversation with someone I don't want to talk to (erm, that would be, like everyone) (anyone) (not that many people phone me up) (on account of noone knowing my number) (my way of avoiding having to answer the phone) (I figure if it's important, they'll phone back) (anyhow)

but I have had to recently (answer the dog 'n' bone) (on account of buying the new abode) (all sorts of people think they have a right to talk you when you are making a major purchase. . .)

anyway, SHE phoned, I didn't know it was SHE, I answered. . .

SHE said SHE'd see me today

I said I'd think about it

so I thunk and when I texted (see, I can do texting, cos you don't have to talk to anyone) to say "OK", SHE texted back saying SHE was no longer available

%-)

but I took her advice and did something constructive instead with my morning

. . .I went OUT. . .

!!

YIKES - it's scary out there. . . I won't bore you with it, apart from to say that the highlight of my trip OUT was the multi-storey-car-park-ticket-machine that said "have a nice day" when I left

hope you
have a nice day!

kilter

whenever is one "in kilter?"

*goes off to look the etymology of the word up*

*returns. . .

. . .a little bit wiser!*

Dictionary: kilter (kĭl'tər)

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n. good condition; proper form: “policy ‘adjustments’ designed to bring the . . . country's economy back into kilter with the Western economic system” (Edward Zuckerman) [Origin unknown.]

(let's assume that that is origin unknown of the word,
I mean we all know who Ed is, right?)

Thesaurus: kilter (noun)

a state of sound readiness: condition, fettle, fitness, form, order, shape, trim; see better/worse

*thinks: sounds like our dave!*
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(and craig, malc, gordie, shot. . .)
(most of you, in fact)

Translations: kilter

Dansk (Danish) n. - i orden
Nederlands (Dutch)goede/gewone staat
Français (French) n. - (Typ) alignement, état de marche (d'une machine)
Deutsch (German) n. - Ordnung, geregelter Gang
Ελληνική (Greek) n. - ευταξία, τάξη, καλή λειτουργία
Italiano (Italian) buono stato
Português (Portuguese) n. - bom estado (coloq.)
Русский (Russian) порядок, полная исправность
Español (Spanish) n. - orden, arreglo, buena condición
Svenska (Swedish) n. - funktion
中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified)) 良好状态, 平衡, 顺利
中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional)) n. - 良好狀態, 平衡, 順利
한국어 (Korean) n. - 호조, 정상상태, 순조
日本語 (Japanese) n. - 好調, 正常な状態
العربيه (Arabic) ‏(الاسم) في حاله جيده‏
עברית (Hebrew) n. - ‮תקינות, מצב טוב‬

I'm sooooooooooooo glad they included the Simplified Chinese, my Traditional being slightly rusty these days. . .

. . .well! that was an education
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how's your kilter today?