Note to HK: “Unconscious Mutterings” is just a blog toy – just for fun. Every week we get this handy list of words – and we just free associate. The first word is theirs, the second, mine.

1. Do-it-yourself:: disaster
2. Pickpocket:: or two
3. Ballet:: tour jeté
4. Resumé:: curriculum vitae
5. Phenom:: fab
6. Love/Hate:: fervor
7. Unusual:: pussycat
8. Intense:: repulsion
9. Interruption:: syncope
10. Not enough:: sample – I mean, ample