Of course, not all is as bad as it seems, no matter what some jumpy analysts think.
"When she starts to menstruate, there is a perception in our culture that she has left childhood and now she may get jumpy jumpy," (Teacher, referring to girls generally) "Please tell me what you mean by jumpy jumpy".
That's what the giant jumpy castle of parenting does to you: it makes you expect more from yourself, but it also forces you to compromise those brand-new ideals early and often.
Boyle has created what looks like a jumpy, hyper-edited commercial for poverty — he uses the squalor and violence touristically, as an aspect of the fabulous.
Maybe only the regulars realize what makes Koko so jumpy: In March 2009, the men sitting where he sits now, Yemeni father and son Mohammed and Abdul Abuzaid, were dragged into the basement by robbers and shot dead.
And how can a city that's so jumpy about what's going on in the sky that an Air Force plane snapping pictures for publicity in lower Manhattan created a general frenzy not extend that sense of concern a little further?
Indeed, part of what makes people feel so jumpy and excited during "Hamilton" is its unbridled masculinity.
The road is full of huge potholes and I get a little jumpy, and wonder what it takes to fill them up.
Even the Chicago Board Options Exchange's VIX volatility index, which is derived from the prices of options on the S&P 500, is still near the bottom of its long-term range, despite having hit a three-year high this week (see chart 2).So what else is making investors jumpy, besides growth and inflation?
Ask him the question most often put to hedge fund jockeys by jumpy institutional investors: "What's your edge?" And he replies, "We're long-term investors".
