Every time I try to write something about School Shooting Week I get too angry/sad to succeed in making it coherent, so I'm ignoring that for now and moving onto the light-hearted stuff.

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Nevermind PunkAssBlog's innuendo contest. These are just yucky in so many ways. I wonder how long I have before my ( Read more... )

I missed in round 7 on this crazy French word, cointise (/,kwahn-'tees/, I'm pretty sure), placing 14th. And, Samir Patel missed! In the same round as me! Kerry (Katharine) Close of New Jersey won, on ursprache. She and Finola Hackett of Canada dueled for a while, Finola missed weltschmerz. She missed it by one letter, putting a "v" where the "w" ( Read more... )

I'm trying to think of witty ways to say this, but my mind is failing me ( Read more... )

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Today the Paideia came in the mail!!!!!!! I'm going to spend all night memorizing the new sections, or as long as it takes. Even though I have a test tomorrow. I haven't made it through all the Audio Paideia sections, I've only made it through one, for my Internet signal is so dysfunctional it only works when I'm within three feet of the Airport ( Read more... )

In the context I am using it in, blackout does not refer to a power outage. It refers to the first new word I heard in Audio Paideia. (!!!) It came out yesterday, or maybe the day before yesterday. But my computer loathes me with the fire of a thousand suns, so it converted the four new sections I downloaded (Thumbs Up & Thumbs Down, Adversity and ( Read more... )