Vocabulary Lesson

There was this about vampires: they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were ... what was the word ... déshabillé. It meant untidy, but with bags and bags of style.

Monstrous Regiment, pg. 145

I like this one better.
The danger of colouring something while having a conversation is that one tends to ... overdo it. (Line version)

3:15 pm
Gmail is great. It has many exemplary features. Some may mention the ability to search your letters for keywords, others may point out the way correspondences are grouped into "conversations," and many will rejoice in the seemingly limitless storage space.

My favourite thing, however, is that when the "Spam" folder (which has an excellent automatic filter) is empty, it says "Hooray, no spam here!"