Hello? I'm not sure if there's anyone left here. It seems to have become mostly communities, but oh well. I think I need a platform for shouting into the void. So, here we are.

Merry almost Christmas, void.

Or, at the very least, things that I wish I had paid attention to when they were told to me, and some things that I think are truisms, also learned the hard way. These are in no particular order ( Read more... )

Shamelessly stolen and slightly edited from sushispook. I agree with him and please follow the Chicago model of voting, vote early and vote often ( Read more... )

Oh and as an added note, tonight I am going to a Catholic church for a CE class on Wake, Funeral, and Cemetery Protocol. Apparently there are bets going on as to whether or not I'm going to burst into flames when I cross the threshold.

I used to worry that I only had a set amount of words that I could write in my life, and that once I ran out that was it. And that I had wasted my allotment of words writing grocery lists and quick notes to people....

Beans are in flower -- A suggested explanation of a person's stupidity. It was formerly believed that the scent of the flowering ( Read more... )

I know I've been really lax on updating. Sorry, I've been busy, tired, and sick. I'll put something in later this afternoon. For now...

Bathing-Machine -- A covered vehicle used at the seaside resorts of Britain in which bathers dressed.

-- William Whitney's Century Dictionary, 1889

Februation -- Purification; [1650s to late 1800s].

-- Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850

Gawmless -- Within Lancashire, to gawm is to understand or comprehend, and a man is said to gawm that which he can hold in his hand. For this reason, a person is said to be gawmless when his fingers are so cold and frozen that ( Read more... )

Dern --

-- Of action done or proceeding in secret, or in the dark; kept concealed; hence dark, of evil or deceitful nature.

-- Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1897 ( Read more... )

Awblaster --

-- A cross-bowman.

-- John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish LanguageHrm. Short, sweet, and makes no sense at all ( Read more... )

Coach-fellow --

--A horse employed to draw in the same carriage with another. Hence, metaphorically, a person intimately connected with another, generally applied to people in low life.

-- James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855 ( Read more... )