you guys! i totally just completed a goal without even trying! #81 = done. i was so busy this week that i literally not once sat on my couch until just now, when i turned on the tv and realized how foreign it felt. sweet! i wonder if some time in the next two years facebooking will become just as easy to stop wasting time on. here's hoping!
in other news, a bit of advice to anyone who happens to be reading: don't set up subscriptions for three magazines in one day unless you seriously love junk mail. it's like i can't throw it out fast enough.
i also finally caught up on my word-a-day calendar today by cruising through three months' worth of word origins. here are my favorite lessons:
subaru - japanese word for the constellation we call the pleiades, six of whose stars are visible to the naked eye. subaru was the name chosen when, in 1953, six japanese companies joined to manufacture the now popular line of automobiles.
gauche - i only started hearing this word recently, but i've gathered it means something like socially inept. apparently it's derived from the french word meaning "left," as in the left hand, to which many languages attribute bad things. ha!
the zip in zip code comes from the bureaucratic phrase "zoning improvement plan," coined in 1963.
the devil in deviled eggs refers to the red spice paprika. well, ok, duh...
bit (as in computers) - the condensed form of "binary digit." what!
aaaaaand finally, turns out my good friend liz has plans to sell her london flat. that flat was the impetus for goal #68, but now it looks like she and her husband will be yacht-dwellers instead. i get pretty seasick pretty reliably, so it's time to come up with #68's replacement. i welcome suggestions, but am currently leaning towards getting my motorcycle endorsement. that's how awesome riding in kauai was.
in other news, a bit of advice to anyone who happens to be reading: don't set up subscriptions for three magazines in one day unless you seriously love junk mail. it's like i can't throw it out fast enough.
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i also finally caught up on my word-a-day calendar today by cruising through three months' worth of word origins. here are my favorite lessons:
subaru - japanese word for the constellation we call the pleiades, six of whose stars are visible to the naked eye. subaru was the name chosen when, in 1953, six japanese companies joined to manufacture the now popular line of automobiles.
gauche - i only started hearing this word recently, but i've gathered it means something like socially inept. apparently it's derived from the french word meaning "left," as in the left hand, to which many languages attribute bad things. ha!
the zip in zip code comes from the bureaucratic phrase "zoning improvement plan," coined in 1963.
the devil in deviled eggs refers to the red spice paprika. well, ok, duh...
bit (as in computers) - the condensed form of "binary digit." what!
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aaaaaand finally, turns out my good friend liz has plans to sell her london flat. that flat was the impetus for goal #68, but now it looks like she and her husband will be yacht-dwellers instead. i get pretty seasick pretty reliably, so it's time to come up with #68's replacement. i welcome suggestions, but am currently leaning towards getting my motorcycle endorsement. that's how awesome riding in kauai was.
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