Best
Buttinski of My Workday
Giggling
Through Interruptions
Buttinski. What a great word!
A noun, it means someone who butts in or someone who is a troublemaker, perhaps
someone who interferes. The
self-employed, work-at-home-alone life gets dull at times. To stifle my
often-present urge to break up the workday, I spend far too much time online.
It’s the biggest buttinski of my day.
I use a wonderful
program called Freedom to keep me offline.
During those offline hours, because I’m an
editor, I still must look up words but without the benefit of the quick search.
I keep my dog-eared, much-thumbed, dust-jacket-torn Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary at my side and use it
often. While searching for a term, part of the fun of words, and especially the
words in my Webster’s, is spying
those I don’t know. More fun is when a word surprises me. Buttinski is such a word. I marked its entry with a Post-it and
whenever my fingers touch that page, I stop and giggle aloud during my
momentary distraction. It is the best buttinski
of my day.
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