hump.

Maybe I should say work of the bi-week? llism????

I can't let three weeks go by without an entry here. In truth, I was in a funk up until yesterday. In the least three months, I have sent query after query of whay I deem to be absolutely FASCINATING material to many many publications in hopes that an article would be accepted. Until yesterday, all I had received back was one rejection and one ( Read more... )

funk.

dusty.

(as in, "I got my boots")

Having recently used the phrase "getting yourself into a pickle" more than once with some of my patients at work, I decided to look up its origins so that I could figure out how it ended up coming out of my mouth before the age of 65.

I found this on www.phrases.org.uk:

There are a few references to ill pickles and this pickle etc. in print in ( Read more... )

I want to know what genius invented the popcorn ceiling ( Read more... )

I think I complain too much, but I think I need to at the same time. There have been periods where I tell myself that I'm going to just relax and let things slide, but I get more tense and worked up keeping everything in than I do venting about things. I maintain and maintain and then I just blow my top and everything comes rushing out in this ( Read more... )

popcorn.

The word “grouse” always makes me think of Scotland. There was a whiskey, I think, called “The Famous Grouse” which had a silly little bird on the label. I always thought the bird looked both dignified and utterly silly at the same time ( Read more... )

I ask because I have been conspicuously absent from livejournal as of late, specifically because I have had either too little or too much about which to grouse. And I don't mean the bird. My biggest grouse at the moment is also one of the main reasons I have neglected both this community and my own personal journal: My husband is having an affair ( Read more... )