No, he's our shortstop.

I spent the past weekend in the east bay, with several friends from a folk music and dance camp I attend every summer [website, facebook, brochure]. We spend most of our time dozing and cuddling and talking about stupid, random topics. Below is a the transcript of a conversation between myself, my distractible and flamboyant friend Adam, and our stoic bouncing board, Katie.

A: What am I doing right now?

K: Making baguettes?

A: Oh! Yes. [Laughs embarrassedly] Guess I'm just easily distractible.

G: Easily distracted?

A: What? Oh, yeah. Wait, why not "easily distractible?"

G: I don't know. I would just say distracted. Cuz you can be distracted easily.

K: But doesn't that make him distractible?

A: So they're the same.

G: Yes, it makes him distractible. But not easily distractible. Because it's the fact that it's easy to distract him that makes him distractible.

A: But no - easily is an adverb, so it can describe a verb or an adjective.

G: But think about it in context. Distractibility is a state of being - the state of being distractible. How can a state be easy? Does that mean that it's easy for you to get to that state, or to be in that state, or what? At the very least, "easily distracted" is more direct.

A: So they're the same.

G: Well, functionally. Or I guess, being easily distracted is a pre-requisite to being distractible. But then how could a state be easy?

K: Cuz he's really, really distractible.

A: Yeah! Like right now. What was I doing?

K: Baguettes, Adam.

A: Oh yeah! Fuck.

Adam's little sister: Adam, don't say the fuck word!

A weekend of this.