Juxtaposition.

For some reason it was really hard to come up with something for the letter J.  Partly because I was really searching for something, then I'd get distracted and forget my latest brilliant idea. (Don't be surprised if this post gets edited quite a few times.)

Juxtaposition is a word that I really like.  I probably overloaded on it in college a little, via endless discussions of juxtapositioning of character motivation in narratives, images in visuals, and sound versus pictures.  But that was a long time ago.  When I was looking for a name for my blog and my little company, I ended up with Flibbertygibbet (which is normally spelled with an i rather than a y) from a list of words that have gone out of fashion, which suits me fine.  A flibbertygibbet is, according to the OED, 'a frivolous and restless person'. Again, suits me fine.  The OED has just been declared an Icon of England, along with fish and chips, Punch and Judy, the routemaster bus, and many others.  Just some of the things I love about my adopted country.  Surely someone will nominate the tube map, and the red post box?

Again with the forgetting, I know I went to twelve22's lovely little blog to fetch something for here.  Now I can't remember what it was.  Perhaps that J is for jealous - as well as being a crafty goddess, she works for a very exciting publishing house.  Read their blog here and their thoughts on the publishing industry here - with hindsight I know that this sort of thinking is a little bit of what catapulted me out of mainstream trade publishing.  Mind you, straight into the stagnant pool of freelancing, aka unemployment, but things are bound to turn soon. 

Time to eat the frog, finish the paperwork, start piecing the quilt and then later I'll be popping down to Broadway Market for a cup of tea with a friend.  Sadly I will be avoiding Fabrications as I'm broke.  I'll also be ploshing down in the rain, from the looks of things.  Come on August - surely you can squeeze out a little more sunshine?