figmentation

My thoughts for today: place barrel against temple. say a cheesy line ("Goodbye cruel world" works), pull trigger.

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I'm so ready to be done here so I can go on with my life. I"m looking at schools in south florida. yay team. and am also looking for living space there away from my parents. Otherwize I will be absolutly nuts! Completely! Moreso than I already am. (is that really possible?)

Words of the day:
abominable \uh-BAH-muh-nuh-bul\ adjective
1 : worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable
*2 : quite disagreeable or unpleasant
-Example sentence:
"I imagine it must be a relief to receive another letter from me written on a typewriter, for ... my handwriting has been abominable for several years past." (Alexander Woollcott, Letters)
-Did you know?
The tendency to hate evil omens is a vital part of the history of "abominable." The word descends from the Latin verb "abominari," which means "to deprecate as an ill omen" or "to detest"; "abominari" itself comes from "ab-" plus "omin-" ("from an omen"). When English speakers adopted "abominable" in the 14th century, they used it to express their disgust over evil or truly detestable things and for 500 years that's the way things stood. In the 1800s, the word's meaning moderated, so that Scottish novelist William Black could write in A Princess of Thule (1873), "Sheila had nothing to do with the introduction of this abominable decoration." Other descendents of "abominari" are "abominate" ("to hate or loathe intensely") and "abomination" ("something odious or detestable").


Word #2
causerie \koh-zuh-REE\ noun
*1: an informal conversation : chat
2: a short informal essay
-Example sentence:
After the table was cleared and coffee was served, the dinner guests rose and continued their causerie in the other room.
-Did you know?
"Causerie" first appeared in English in the early 19th century, and it can be traced back to the French "causer" ("to chat") and ultimately to the Latin "causa" ("cause, reason"). The word was originally used to refer to a friendly or informal conversation. Then, in 1849, the author and critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve began publishing a weekly column devoted to literary topics in the French newspaper Le Constitutionnel. These critical essays were called "Causeries du lundi" ("Monday chats") and were later collected into a series of books of the same name. After that, the word "causerie" acquired a second sense in English, referring to a brief, informal article or essay.

Word #3 (I find alot of these)
bromide \BROH-myde\ noun
1 : a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (as potassium bromide) used as sedatives
2 a : a commonplace or tiresome person : bore *b : a commonplace or hackneyed statement or notion
-Example sentence:
"Most presidents like to quote Harry Truman's 'the buck stops here' bromide...." (Michael Tackett, The Daily Telegraph, May 2004)
-Did you know?
After bromine was discovered in 1827, chemists could not resist experimenting with the new element. It didn't take long before they found uses for its compounds, in particular potassium bromide which was used as a sedative to treat everything from epilepsy to sleeplessness. By the 20th century, "bromide" was being used figuratively to apply to anything or anyone that might put one to sleep because of commonness or just plain dullness. Today, bromides are no longer an ingredient in sedative preparations, but we can still feel the effects of figurative bromides as we encounter them in our daily routines.

Anyways, anyone know anything about south florida asside from the amazingly large aids population, (and not incedentially a large homosexual population.) a large population anyways, environemental degeneration and so on? It's been years since I lived there. I'm really excited about going back though. it'll be good. I'll be able to put to rest old demons who have haunted me this whole time I"ve been gone. It's time to go back.

kisses. Hugs.
~Tash.