uuuuunbreak batman's heeeeeeart

[cimorene]

♠Stone Age skeletons in the Sahara! And to me this is the coolest part: About 100 million years ago, this land was forested and occupied by dinosaurs and enormous crocodiles. Not that that's new, just... GIANT CROCODILES! Crocodiles are cool! I love crocodilians!

♠Has anyone else noticed that the Dictionary.com word of the day is, about half the time, an annoyingly, obnoxiously elementary joke? I don't look at it on purpose: it shows up in the news headlines in gmail. "Blackguard"? Seriously? Anyone who teaches elementary language arts should look into using this site. Or anyone who teaches ESL. Not anyone who is actually an adult and a native speaker of English. "Meticulous"? "Propound"? "Laconic"?

♠I had to turn down the chance to go to Ängisbacka today because I haven't had time to get up and eat and stuff yet. :(

♠I had a disturbing mixture of anxiety nightmares and dreams about cuddling my sweet, sweet little dog. I guess having him sleep snuggled against my legs is good for something.

♠Batman is so brooding and grumpy and emo. Isn't it great? perhael and I had a total crack digression about Toni Braxton in regards to her wip yesterday that will show up in the deleted scenes when she's done unless we forget.

Comments

[special-trille.livejournal.com]

Re. Batman: yes! It's totally great. :D

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Automatic hilarity!

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be honest; I know very few adults outside of fandom who would know ANY of those words.

[aynatonal.livejournal.com]

I was recently on the train, looking over some guy's shoulder as he worked his way through some official GRE vocabulary flashcards. He was putting the ones he knew in the box and the ones he didn't back in the pile. He appeared to be familiar with less than a third of them. I knew every one but one. This is a guy hoping to get into grad school.

Now I will say, if I were dealing with the equivalent math flashcards, I would probably fare worse than he appeared to be doing with the vocabulary, but still. I don't use higher math every day, but I sure as hell use *words*.