June 2009
5 posts
…it’s bizarre finding out through facebook that one of my favorite teachers just passed away.
and literally seeing pages of facebook statuses about him.
and then, one of my closest friends from home telling me that he knew now that he too was going to be a history teacher.
50 most looked-up words on NYTimes.com →
wordjournal:
via bmichael:
sui generis
solipsistic
louche
laconic
saturnine
antediluvian
epistemological
shibboleths
penury
sumptuary
schadenfreude
peripatetic
abstruse
parlous
enervating
adenoidal
feckless
solipsism
ersatz
fealty
sanguine
sartorial
hagiography
pandemic
hagiographic
dauphin
antebellum
paroxysm
risible
interlocutor
swine
apotheosis
comity
...
…only here would night before exam preparations include bow ties, black skirts, and carnations.
it’s a funny place.
...omg!
I VOTED TODAY!!!
…in Britain! (I love ‘belonging’ to three countries). But. I voted. For the first time ever.
I guess I’m so used to being disenfranchised, that this is just…bizarre. and cool. COOL.
It’s always the stupidest little things that remind me that I’m in England, not America. Often, now, the difference is intangible.
But today I’m writing an essay on democracy. And I went to google, looking for an Abe Lincoln quote. As I typed in Lincoln, Google tried to guess/predict/suggest what I was looking for; Abraham Lincoln was not on the list…but there were...