My brief random thoughts about Tuesday's episode. If I didn't discuss gender fluidity and sexual orientation, I would be completely remiss.

( 3.12, The Spanish Teacher - Here be spoilers )

So two trips ago to the university library, where I occasionally go to do research for my Real Work, I rewarded myself for a job well done by having a peek in the Oxford English Dictionary to look up the origins of "glasz."

At the time, I decided I should make consulting the OED a regular reward for my work. But the last time I was at the library, I ( Read more... )

I was perusing the internet today and ran across the quote behind the cut, which had me laughing so hard that snot shot out of my nose. But you know how when someone tells you something is going to be so funny, it's less funny than it would be otherwise? So yeah, you're not going to think it's funny at all, now. Oh, well.

( Awesome and potentially blasphemous - though I sure don't think so! - quote about a certain sex act that lots of folks like to write about in Klaine smut. )

I have decided that every post containing my mental masturbation about meta must now be tagged with "metabation."

Because it's the right thing to do.

Okay. I have a multi-chapter fic that I want to post this week and it's pretty much done thanks to the amazing verdandil, but I need to decide the answer to this question before I start posting (and I'd like to start posting Monday):

Would Kurt Hummel make a grammatical error? (when he's not drunk, drugged, sick or in the throes of passion)

The type of ( Read more... )

Since encountering the word "glasz" for the first time last week while perusing fan fiction, and after failing to find it in the Merriam-Webster or the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, I've been curious about the etymology.

I went to the university library today and it occurred to me that it would almost certainly have the complete Oxford English ( Read more... )

verdandil tipped me off to this beautiful bird.


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