Groop

I have a cold, I hate colds. I guess I could enjoy the rest that a cold allows you, but I really don't want to rest, I want this damn green yucky crap gone! Why is it called a cold anyway?? There has to be a more appropriate name. I kind of like "Groop," it doesn't mean anything else, like cold, which actually means cold, chilly, not warm. I don't feel chilly, I feel groopy so I think groop is a much better name. I also wonder how new terms get introduced and then become common in everyday language. Like "cool," when did people start saying things were cool? AND if cool is a good thing, like, those shoes are cool, why do we use the word cold for such a horribly annoying illness. Both of them are levels of the temperature gradient. Let me see, the temperature gradient, you have cold, cool, just fine, warm and hot. We use cold to talk about this annoying sickness, we use cool to describe things we like, we use warm to say that we are getting closer to something and we use hot to describe attractive members of the opposite sex. I think we are obsessed with temperature, probably because we are obsessed with the weather. No, I don't want to talk about global warming. Apparently, teenagers today have come up with a new term for 'cool,' they say. 'scene.' I assume it refers to scenic and means that something looks or is, good. It is used just like cool, as far as I can tell. If someone gets a new haircut you can tell them, "your hair is scene!" I don't know if this will ever make it into the common vernacular, I guess only the emo kids are using it. Yes, if you don't know what 'emo' means, you are getting old. Back to bed, I have to get rid of this groop.