maunder: /mawn-der/

1. to talk in a rambling, foolish, or meaningless way.
2. to move, go, or act in an aimless, confused manner

how to use in casual conversation:

"i think i'm gonna maunder over toward your side of town and stop at a few bars along the way"
"that homeless guy on the bus just kept maundering to anybody to who would listen, regardless of whether or not anyone was"

not to be confused with:

launder

how it makes me feel:

this word is freaking amazing. it's synonymous with meander which is also a kick ass word but it's also synonymous with gallivant, jaunt, and traipse all of which are excellent collections of letters. i also like the word for it's aesthetics. it makes me think of woody guthrie on his library of congress recordings where he's telling stories about the songs and his travels and how they came to be and it just sounds so goddamn beautiful. i personally have spent the last two years of the verge or dropping everything and maundering about the US (which is how i wound up here). because let's face it, at the end of your life what the hell is a career but a pool of co-workers who are willing to show up to your funeral and say what a nice person you were, assuming you don't live 20 years after retirement in which case everyone has long since forgotten you or died. and what good is rent when all it does is pay someone else's mortgage while the property appreciates, i mean my landlord is the nicest lady ever and she hasn't raised the rent in over 5 years but wouldn't our lives be better spent on the back of a scooter, putting around the south in the winter and sliding up north during the summer? digging ditches when you need to just to muster up enough money for gas and food which would certainly entitle you to 10 minutes alone with the restroom key so you can wash your face and possibly your reproductive parts but definitely your arm pits. why is life only meaningful in the context of being validated by or helping others? what if some of us are born to just move from place to place taking in everything we can and demonstrating that you don't have to do things the way 'they' tell you and just because everyone you went to high school with got married and bought a condo doesn't mean you should try to live up to those arbitrary standards where overall success is measured by how much you've earned and spent and how little interest you managed to pay along the way, because the one part 'they' never tell you about the school-college-marriage-property-babies sequence of life events are the consequences of trying to live that life and failing miserably. not that i know anything about that.