Virescent: adj. greenish or becoming green (from the Latin verb "virescere," to become green, itself from "virere," to be green).

I'm going to combine wordgeeking here with wishing Green Day would hurry the fuck up and at least tell us wtf is going on. *g* Interestingly, the nominal form virescence has been co-opted by horticulturists to convey ( Read more... )

Should be in bed as I want to get going rather early tomorrow, but I'm only just now starting to feel sleepy around the edges after all the sleep I've had the last two days. Took me a while to work through the sluggish today. But, I have things about as organised as they can get until I get a couple more things. I wish I'd been able to bring my ( Read more... )

You know what's better than sex? A kickass conversation with a friend at a time when you really, really needed one. OMG such a good night. We had no trouble using our tickets and the show was amazing. There was even one dancer who had to be at least six months pregnant. She was in a group piece and they made concessions for her in terms of not ( Read more... )

This entry on the Making Light blog, entitled, "We Give Thanks for Peace on the Border" after the Steeleye Span song, inspires a lot of thought. It's about the USA/Canadian border and the asininity that currently characterises Homeland Security et al's attitudes towards and proposed governance of it. This is a subject I've talked about before, but ( Read more... )

Got my hair cut today (hence the venturing out into the snow, as I'd already confirmed et al) and as the new phone has a camera function with slightly better resolution than the crappy digital camera I have (and how sad is that, really), I took a picture or two. ( Kinda blurry but oh well. )

I suppose the "big gift" - despite it technically being also *free* as it's an upgrade to the very old existing - is my new cell phone. :D It's beeyootiful and it takes pictures/videos and plays songs and has the tiniest memory card in existence that I shall worry about losing LOL. *wriggles excitedly* I already put all my phone numbers in it (I ( Read more... )

Approximately four hours ago, I was on my way to work. It had been snowing lightly all morning and things were slippery, so I was watching my speed (I do speed, but only on clear, non-residential roads in good weather; I'm a very careful winter driver), driving in the left lane of the highway due to the upcoming off & on ramps in quick succession, ( Read more... )

As it turned out, it was $20 more to get a wireless keyboard/mouse bundle than to get a decent keyboard, so I'm now the proud owner of a shiny new matte black set o' Human Interface Devices (according to my "Found Hardware" notification from Windows), hee. The mouse will take a bit of getting used to - it is *really* sensitive for moving around, ( Read more... )

W00t I took my car in today for the annual safety inspection and I didn't even have to get a light bulb changed or nuthin'! Much less expensive than I was anticipating. Not that that ended up meaning anything by day's end as I indulged in a bit of retail therapy. Which ended up being all make-up as the CD I'd decided to get, nobody had! Yeesh. And ( Read more... )

The things you can learn from the newspaper, dude. The weekly entertainment guide has a column by the owner of Sexy Girl, which is a sex toy home party type business. This week's dealt with intimate piercings. ( I had no idea this is where the 'dress left or right' expression came from! )