un·der·whelm [uhn-der-hwelm, -welm]
–verb : to fail to interest or astonish
This is my first post in almost three months. My record to date. It would have been closer to two months if I hadn’t spent the last two weeks pondering my glorious return. Everything I remotely came up with was so underwhelming and certainly not glorious, so I have decided to embrace it.
I figured I would dazzle you with some trivia on the word, or at least an etymology of sorts. The googled results are surprisingly underwhelming. Not really sure what I was expecting, now that I think about it.
In the past three months, I have:
- Gotten my first technical writing job. I am writing procedures in the corporate office of Westpac, an Australian bank.
- Submitted a second round of immigration application which in theory will lead to permanent residency.
- Discovered The Oatmeal
- Sanded and oiled six deck chairs we found in the trash pile of a Mormon church. Surprisingly, this project has taken the entire three months. I put the final coat of oil on this morning. I still smell like turpentine.
All I can do is apologize promise to attempt to be more dazzling, or at least more consistent, in the coming months.
I leave you with this profound quote:
Chastity: I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?
Bianca: I think you can in Europe.
God speed.
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