/lit/ - Literature

It's late autumn now, the leaves have all fallen and it's cold enough to need a real coat to go outside, a sweater won't cut it. The sky is that very pale blue you get when the clouds are exceptionally thin. The whole world looks cold. It'll be winter soon, in a couple days I guess actually. Doesn't make much sense to drag autumn into December. I miss fall already, it's very nice here in New England but it doesn't last. I don't like the winter much, it brings out the worst of my sadness. I'll be home with my parents for most of December, so hopefully that helps. Last year was pretty unpleasant though, it was really unseasonably warm but everything was still dead and lifeless. I had some really unpleasant things occur in my social life, and trudging through hills of dead, pale brown grass and leafless trees thinking about it made it all the more awful. I hope this year is more comfy times, but I'll probably be forced to confront some people I don't want to and I worry what it will do to me. This is also my last year of college, there's always this great sense of finality with everything I do here now (last time taking fall mid-terms, last time going home for christmas, etc), so I've been thinking about that a lot. I don't know what's next for me. My life has always had a fairly certain trajectory and for the first time I'm really quite lost.

That's what's on my mind.

Post about weird things you've noticed in language.

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I and many people I know use the construction "yeah, no" as a substitute for a leading "yes" in a phrase. For example:
>yeah, no, I really enjoyed the movie (meaning: yes I enjoyed the movie)
"no, yeah" also occurs with the same meaning but is less common, I feel. I noticed this construction made little to no sense when I kept confusing my mother by using it. I suppose it must be a millennial thing, but I can't imagine how it started.