there is something very unnerving about having a "nuclear" family
it seems like an explosive possibility.

ugh ( Read more... )

back from new york.
i think i'm autistic.
i wouldn't mind hiking the haute route through the alps. really.
my list has Nineteen Items.
3 of 19 FINISHED.

use this:

vagitus (vuh-JI-tuhs) noun: The cry of a newborn.
[From Latin vagire (to wail).]

apocope: leaving out the last sound, syllable, or part of a word
ex. math, fab, psych
(from greek apokoptein, to cut off; apo-, from or away, and koptein, to cut.)
by the by, cutting off the first part of the word (i.e. squire instead of esquire) is aphesis, and cutting out the middle (i.e. fo'c's'le rather than forecastle [on a ship]) is syncopei ( Read more... )

antimacassar: a protective or decorative cloth over the back of a chair
(um, this word wins life. here is weird words' explanation:
To find the inspiration for this term, we must go back to the very start of the nineteenth century and to Mr Rowland of Hatton Garden in London, who invented what the Oxford English Dictionary describes as “an unguent ( Read more... )

ansible: an interstellar instantaneous communications device
(invented by ursula k. le guin in rocannon's world, 1967, and borrowed by orson scott card...origin unclear, though possibly of note is its being an anagram of lesbian)

spring break is still happening. that's a definite 65.

anfractuousity: a channel, crevice, or passage full of windings or turnings (adj) anfractuous
(used in the sense of a broken or jumbled landscape, but also to describe the convolutedness i.e. of legal jargon...from Latin anfractus "a bending-around", in turn from Latin frangere, "to break")

anamorphosis: process of creating an anamorphic image [picture that has been distorted so as to appear normal when viewed from a particular direction or with a suitable mirror or lens]
(from greek ana- "back" and morphosis "a shaping")

this quiz told me i should do cocaine.
but apparently not be christian. or, 17% of me. that might be a piece of ( Read more... )

analemmatic: relating to a scale that shows the seasonal difference between time as shown by clocks and that as shown by the sun ( Read more... )

alexipharmic: having the quality or nature of antidote to poison
(from 17th c. english alexipharmac, a noun that, in turn came directly from greek alexein, "to ward off", and pharmakon, "poison"...was used attributively so often that people decided it should be spelled with an -ici.e. you're looking rather alexipharmic today ( Read more... )