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June 16, 2005
Canker Sore
I have a canker sore forming in the bottom right corner of my mouth. It makes me sad, because I hate them so much. They hurt so much, and it hinders my eating. That's the bad news of the day I suppose.
I'm actually doing much better today with Lucy and Stephy being gone. I still can't look at her picture for too long with out tearing up, but I am doing much better. I don't think about them all day long. I have to watch myself though, because I have Lulu's picture on my computer desktop, and they are almost lifesize. So I am always tempted to kiss her picture, therefore kissing my computer monitor. I think my cube area mates wouldn't appreciate that. I think they already think I'm pretty strange. I haven't had that much time to actually chat with them. And actually, I have a lot of hatred for the guy on the other side of my wall. He talks so LOUD, about weird stuff...Like golfing, and his son's basketball team, and all this personal stuff that I really don't think is necessary for me to overhear. Unfortunately, he is so loud. Even through my head phones I can hear him yapping away. (And they always say that WOMEN talk too much!!) In addition, he is kind of disgusting. He burps all the time, and supposedly farts according to another co-cube mate. (I hope to never wittness that). Not that I should say anything, because anyone who's worked near me knows about my tendancy for hiccups, and occasionally a burp slips through before I can control myself...but whatever. I still hate him...and his damn phone. In my own way of retribution, I keep "forgetting" to turn my phone ringer to vibrate in the morning. So two days in a row, the Asian Jingle has been reverberating throughout the office :-)Too bad he wasn't at his desk for that. :-) All I can say is thank god for LaunchCast Radio - powered by Yahoo IM! (And just as I typed that, it crashed). OK the guy is cackeling now. HOW ANNOYYYYINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!
So last night, my mom and I went to sign up for Knitting lessons together, but the store was closed (What the heck are summer hours?!?!?!)...so we were unsuccessful in that endevour...Because I decided to drive out to Irondequiot first, I missed the early window of opportunity for dinner before Maki's conference call with Japan. Instead, I had to hang out at hom until 8PM, and then headed back out to meet with her and Seymen for dinner. Her call didn't end until 8:45, and by that time Nate, Ed, and Johnny returned from golfing, so we spent another 45 minutes gathering people and deciding where to go eat. We didn't get to eat until 10pm, but it was worth it. We went to Olive Garden, and it was soooooooo YUMMMMMMMMMYY.
Tonight is my dinner with night with Maureen, my new friend from the Literacy Volunteer. We're going to meet at Shiki and eat there. Double YUMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYY.
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OK, random change of subject. Janet just sent me a few informative e-mails that I think is knowledge that ya'll should read and add to your knowledgebase.
At the risk of sounding as if we have nothing better to talk about, today we undertake an investigation of the word drivel. The noun drivel is another word for "nonsense or inarticulate or foolish utterance"; used as a verb, drivel means to "talk stupidly or carelessly without due thought, knowledge, or consideration"; or "to be silly in manner or content of speech."
The verb drivel is as old as English itself; it dates back to before the 12th century, while the noun drivel came into being in the 14th century. But where does drivel come from? Believe it or not, it is thought to have ancient kin in the Old Norse word for malt dregs, the damp remains of malt after brewing.
Does this get you thinking driveling might have some association with negative effects of drinking? You might be right. The verb drivel has one now-obsolete transitive sense, "to let trickle like saliva from the mouth"; it also claims a now-archaic intransitive sense, "to trickle or dribble."
But while drivel still enjoys the literal sense "to let saliva drip or run in a thin stream from the mouth or mucus from the nostrils," most of us use it in its figurative sense. Which sense did Thomas Beecham intend in his blistering characterization of music critics? You decide. The 20th-century conductor dismissed critics as "hopeless drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips."
So, is it better to spat food from one's mouth while speaking with a mouth full, or is it better to sit in a catonic state and drivel?!
do you know what "pedagogy" means? can you pronounce it correctly?
how 'bout "morose"? meaning? pronunciation?
pedagogy (pe da GO gy) the art, science, or process of educating or being educated
morose (mo rose) sullen, depressed.
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What else? Well...let's see...We have a new addition to our family! We are going to get a new puppy this week. My mom went to Dansville to check out a litter of yellow lab puppies. She of course fell in love with them today, and is planning on picking her up sometime this week. We're very excited for Cheasapeak (that's her name) to join us, and we hope that Bayley will love her too :-) Now Bayley gets to be a mom!! Well actually, more like a grandma...she's turning 91 this year!!!! She's soooooo old!!!!! But still sweet. And my mom keeps emphasizing that Bayley is TOP DOG. Now all we have to do is teach that to the puppy...and Bayley :-)
OK, well I better get back to assets. (Yes I'm going to poke my eyes out from being sick of reviewing assets...but don't worry. I'll be fine. I wouldn't REALLLLYYY do that! (Seymen would kill me because I just spent a "FORTUNE" <--According to him... on my contact lenses, and then I wouldn't be able to use them!!!
Posted by beth at June 16, 2005 01:49 PM