I seem to have accepted the "summer cold" that some of my co-workers have been offering. Or maybe it is just from breathing too much dust (I've been cleaning boxes and corners that have gone untouched for close to a year -- the church yard sale is coming soon). Whatever it is, I am sneezing and sniffing and moving slowly this morning. I plan to ( Read more... )

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I thought for sure "premorse" would describe the feeling of planning to do something and beginning to imagine all of the terrible things that could go wrong.  But no, here is premorse:

premorse (pri-MORS) adjective

Having the end abruptly truncated, as if bitten or
broken off.

[From Latin praemorsus, from praemordere (to bite in
front), from prae-
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... is MUCH better than the second one.  Lots of strong female characters.

Here's a heads-up:  There's nothing after the credits.

"Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering." Tara Brach

noun      A method of training, orginally developed for runners, that involves intense activity interspersed with low effort.  For example, sprinting and walking.
From Swedish fart (speed) + lek (play).
example from the Brisbane Sunday Mail:  "Within a single fartlek session you can also vary the duration of the fast bursts."

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The "assignment" for last night's meeting of the writing group was "laundromats."

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This eleven years (well, counting the think-it-up and cook-it time, twelve years) has been more fun than I ever imagined possible.

I was just looking for Chimfex, the product that looks like a highway flare and is used for extinguishing chimney fires, and I discovered that it is no longer available. Seems there was a fire at the factory.