I'm taking a study break to eat a cookie (a BIG one Casey brought from Jimmy Johns - bless him), and catch up on the interwebs. I gotta say, it bothers the crap out of me when bloggers can't spell or use grammar properly. It makes me think that it wouldn't be hard to be a successful blogger, considering how many bad spellers and grammar fools are ( Read more... )

It's pretty well known that etc. is from the latin et cetera or, "and the rest," but I can't believe that I never knew/noticed that "i.e." is id est, "that is," or that ibid is of course from ibidus, meaning like, "in the same place." How unobservant of me as a student of Latin! I take all our little grammatical abbreviations for granted without ( Read more... )

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glasses of water: 3 (i gotta step it up ( Read more... )

I LOVE EVERGREEN! AH ( Read more... )