Words words words

I am a news junkie.
I had a friend who recently connected to the Internet (more dinosaurs!) ask me what on earth I look at on the Internet as she's finding it all a bit daunting and boring. Aah remember that? Innocence...
Anyway, I told her - I am a news addict.
Hello, my name is Deborah and I am a news addict.
I spend hours everyday on News.com, Perez, The Australian etc etc and I also love to look at other countries newspapers - Israel, UK, America. If you know any good news sites please let me know...I really like the Times Online - and not just because they have Jeremy Clarkson (one of my quirky crushes).
ANYWAY - it is taking me a looooooonnnnnnnnnnng time to get to my point, joy of joys I came across an English newspaper which has a column by Germaine Greer. What fun I had reading an hour or two of her columns. Amazingly she's not a very confident writer - she speaks a lot more confidently than she writes - she had a column where she wrote about favourite words - words you like to hear/interest you/inspire you/make you want to read more. Hers was 'library'.
I agree. I like that word. I also like 'scandal' - if a magazine prints SCANDAL in big letters across it's front I'll more than likely buy it. Shallowness is thy middle name.
Another word I like; cosset - as in 'oh you must make allowances for her, she had a cossetted upbringing.'

I remember a character in a Charlotte Bingham book once declared that 'if you didn't know what it was, 'diarrhoea' would be a pretty name for a girl'
Hilarious.

By the way, first person to leave a comment will have my undying affection forever.