I feel like I say this every week, but my gosh I love this book! It's intelligent, quirky, and Fey's voice really comes through. One passage that I - and I feel everyone - can connect with is:
'I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means "Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum." I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.' (156).
I think that I relate to this because senior year, especially first semester, has been so stressful. Now that the second semester is beginning to wind down, it is getting easier, but I know I felt "blorft" on more than one occasion, between college applications, college classes, high school classes, work, internship, and then time to relax. Although I am known to express my emotions easily (my mom always says that I get upset, I cry for a couple minutes, and I'm done; I get it out of my system), I know that I have felt "blorft" - which I think is a very good word for the feeling.
Have you ever felt "blorft"? If so, when?
~Adi
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