Library Leaves - 9
Published on 26 May 2021
Wiyabu.
This edition of Library Leaves is brought to you by the words ‘whippersnapper’, ‘cheugy’ and the number 6,000.
It is also my travel edition. Covering, in just over two weeks, more than 6,000 km in a big loop through southern NSW (including Lake Mungo) out as far as Port Lincoln in SA, via Kangaroo Island and the wine region) back through Broken Hill (via the Flinders) and home, via Menindee Lakes. Some folks like to go somewhere and relax, all power to them. I take the life-is-too-short and the-world-is-so-big approach. Taking my library with me (ebooks, downloadable audio) of course.
We changed our itinerary quite a few times, including doing it in the reverse order, because it turns out half of Australia is travelling locally and nicking the accommodation. Mostly grey nomads. First time in a while that I’ve felt like a whippersnapper.
16 day’s holiday may not sound much, but it’s 16 lifetimes for a mayfly. Always good to have perspective and it makes the trip feel that much longer.
If a birthday milestone is ‘significant’, does that make all the others insignificant?
Thank you to the reader who contributed the following misquote. An elder female friend of hers said her doctor told her she was suffering from mascular degeneration.
I came across the word cheugy (pronounced chew-ghee) this week. It’s a Gen Z word coined to describe a millennial who thinks they’re on trend while being blissfully unaware of how uncool they are. Apparently you should think skinny jeans, knee-high boots, framed cursive text saying “Live, Laugh, Love” and corny Instagram captions, like “Wine flies when you’re having fun”. Or guys who like energy drinks, cargo shorts, getting tattoos of compasses, quoting Friends and Gucci belts.
The term isn’t meant to be malicious. It recognises everyone can be a bit cheugy at times, and why not? Guess I might put away my knee-high boots though.
Dad Joke #1: what do you call a man with a shovel on his head? Doug
Dad Joke #2: what do you call a man without a shovel on his head? Douglas
French phrase: ‘Pourquoi marchez-vous partout alors que vous pourriez courir?’ (Why do you walk everywhere when you could run?’)
‘Avez-vous déjà vu un coureur sourire?’ (Have you ever seen a runner smile?)
Djurumi. Gapu.