Sometimes Liz Writes

This weekend I learned that the church choir experience is completely revolutionized through the addition of a neck pillow. Reverend Gomes, you are a lovely man, but your sermons are very long.

After years of struggling to pithily describe the majority of my high school classmates in a way that doesn't:

• involve ethnic stereotyping ("guidos")
• inspire the listener to turn the claim back on me ("JAPs")
• sound too douchey / loaded for people who actually know their Marx ("lumpenproletariat")
• seem better reserved for describing the Five Towns ("nouveau riche")
• seem inaccurate since most people do go to college ("townies")

I finally learned the perfect word for summing up my hometown - chavvy.