Okay. I used the word "paradigm" completely seriously not once today, but twice. In fact, that word was just about necessary for the thought to make sense. Scary ( Read more... )

For tamias (who is of course traveling at present and probably won't see this for awhile): I thought of another of those words last night. "Lace" - to close, like corsets or shoes - and the lesser-used "lace" - to slice open, like a wound. This revelation came to me late, soon after I had torn a large slice of skin from my pinky toe. I'd been walking ( Read more... )

After eight days of de-carpeting, priming, stripping, painting, and other double-entendre-able gerund (gerundic? Does 'gerund' have an adjective form?) possibilities... The first phase of redecorating is finished, all of my joints and muscles hate me, and I am perhaps irretrievably behind in my schoolwork. With no data yet compiled, much less coded ( Read more... )