enygma81: Is vagarity a word? Do you mean vagary? I think most girls would pt to hold it until they can find a clean bathroom. I know I would.
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have a love for words. I have for most of my life, perhaps because I like to talk. I love jokes and stories and the way words [...]
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azzaC’s plays a game on her site called Truth or Dare, although I wouldn’t really call it a game. It’s more of a challenge. When she announces the game, her readers can accept a challenge: Either a Truth or a Dare. I’ve read some of her previous games and saw what the Dare’s were. I’m [...]
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agarity n. 1. the quality or condition of randomness, the tendency to change one’s mind withoug apparent or adequate motive; whimisicality.
Not that no one would be able to figure out this word that does not exist in my dictionary…
When public toilets are filthy
Hey guys. Have you ever stepped into a filthy public toilet–particularly those porta-potties [...]
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hey just fade away.” This famous phrase–uttered by General Douglas Macarthur after being relieved of duty as head of East Asian military operations after WWII–might need to be rephrased for former WWII Japanese soldiers discovered in the Philipines: Old soldiers never die, they live out their lives in isolations, abandoned by the government they served.
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hey just fade away.” This famous phrase–uttered by General Douglas Macarthur after being relieved of duty as head of East Asian military operations after WWII–might need to be rephrased for former WWII Japanese soldiers discovered in the Philipines: Old soldiers never die, they live out their lives in isolations, abandoned by the government they served.
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don’t really want to jinx myself, but I must say I feel a change in my fortunes. Since last May–and I don’t know why it would start in May–I have been subjected to one disaster after another. For those of you who have been reading for about a year, you’ll remember that it all started [...]
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f it’s not one thing it’s another. I finally finished grading and did what you might expect: I plunged back into Xanga. Actually, that was what my previous tirade was based on. Hungry to visit as many sites as possible–new ones, as well as my regulars–popup ads kept me from moving freely from one site [...]
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ay is a bittersweet time of the year for me. Like many of my students, I celebrate the end of the academic year, relieved that I have once again survived it–in spite of the fact that summer school starts up immediately following graduation. *sigh*
But, as elated as I am, I am also saddened [...]
Grading is Finished!
But summer school has already started…
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I HATE XANGA SITES that have Popup Ads (bold on Barberic’s advice)! It slows down my computer and I waste valuable minutes that I could have spent reading someone’s worthier Xanga. And don’t tell me I should have popup blocker. Why the hell would I need [...]
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he past weekend was graduation weekend and it a busy time. A reception for students on Saturday, which means I had to prepare a dish for the party on Friday. After the reception was the three hour college graduation. On Sunday, there is University Graduation on the Ellipse on the Washington Mall, right between the [...]
