Of course, "January" is one word for January. It's name, based on Janus, I suppose, the two-faced god of doorways and thresholds and beginnings. (Except that some folks think the month is named after Juno, goddess of marriage and childbirth - and how did I not know that when the movie about a pregnant teen named Juno came out, but I digress ( Read more... )

It's something I often wonder, as I get notifications of entries on ancient posts, where I arrive to find that someone is trying to sell me knock-off shoes or medications, but with their plethora of links "cleverly" hidden among random strings of text. Sometimes I find there is one spam message on a post, sometimes (quite literally) there are ( Read more... )

Monday marks the start of a new week (work week, school week, week in general under the calendars used by most of the world). I know that Mondays can come with a "back to the grind" sort of feeling to them, but they also mark a new beginning.

That's what I'm thinking about today as I head off for the revision cave with the gnomes.


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Got this from my lovely friend David, who sends me amusing bits from time to time ( Read more... )