Nothing’s measured by what it needs

Today, Lola was challenged to speak in the third person. For the whole day. And so she accepted, which is why she is now writing her blog post in the third person. Lola learned a lot today. She is one who fairly often opens her mouth and regrets not thinking through her words first. Well, speaking in the third person got rid of that. She had to think so much about what she was going to say and how before she said it that she wasn't half as compulsive. The slightly irksome thing about speaking in the third person though, was that she continually had this feeling that she was just saying facebook updates (i.e. "Lola thinks that she will go out and get some pizza now." "Lola thinks Joe Biden would be crazy if he acted like a 7th grade girl." etc.). But she got over that, and found out some pretty cool stuff. She realized that this was the most she had really ever said her own name, because, think about, most people don't use their own name often. She found that it was an amazing brain exercise, that she had to think that much harder in order to say things, instead of just blurting them out. And that no matter how hard she tried, she could not get her own mind to think in the third person. She wondered if possibly, there was some language that spoke of everyone in the third person,t hat they would think in the third person. She thought that if there wasn't one, there should be, for that would be interesting. So she thought about animals, and now she is wondering if animals have grammar in their languages, and she assumes they must, which is very very interesting. She now thinks back to a book she read, long long ago, for younger children,but still good, called music of the dolphins, by Karen Hesse, she believes. It was about a girl who had been raised by dolphins, and "rescued" and taught to speak and all. And Lola wondered, did she still think in dolphin? Could she translate, perhaps? I wonder, because that would be incredibly useful to have someone who can speak in an animal's language and a human's so they could translate. Wouldn't that be interesting? There are always fairy tales like that. Lola wonders what we would find out... She bets that they find that dolphins or porpoises are smarter than humans, hah, then the joke would be on them...

Anyways, that's all Lola has for today, she has to go update HoneyFuggler, and she's sorry because she was meaning to post some other parts of her vacation, which, yes, she knows was weeks ago, but she hopes this will interest you for now, instead.

Goodbye,

Lola

Title Quote: Already Dead, Beck