[Linderel]'s diary
Word of the Day for September 16th, 2009
vitriol
1. Chemistry. any of certain metallic sulfates of glassy appearance, as copper sulfate or blue vitriol, iron sulfate or green vitriol, zinc sulfate or white vitriol, etc.
2. oil of vitriol; sulfuric acid.
3. something highly caustic or severe in effect, as criticism.
4. to treat with or as with vitriol, esp. sulfuric acid.
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Joined a choir today - finally! This is the kind where you just show up at practice; no auditions, no nothing, and it is thus a lot less scary than the one I had first thought of attempting to join. Now I can really sing again. <3
Also, Pronunciation 2 begins tomorrow. 90 minutes of Ian every Thursday. Looooove. It's a play-reading course, so it's going to be quite different than the first one... but probably also more interesting. :3
Word of the Day for September 15th, 2009
viable
1. capable of living.
2. Physiology.
a. physically fitted to live.
b. (of a fetus) having reached such a stage of development as to be capable of living, under normal conditions, outside the uterus.
3. Botany. able to live and grow.
4. vivid; real; stimulating, as to the intellect, imagination, or senses: a period of history that few teachers can make viable for students.
5. practicable; workable: a viable alternative.
6. having the ability to grow, expand, develop, etc.: a new and viable country.
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Word of the Day for September 14th, 2009
obfuscate
1. to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
2. to make obscure or unclear: to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information.
3. to darken.
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Word of the Day for September 13th, 2009
perspicacity
1. keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration.
2. Archaic. keen vision.
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Holiday photos, finally.
Trondheim 2009
New description, yay! Tomorrow (or today, really, since it's already Sunday in Finland) is the first 'Writing Day'. I shall probably attempt to put to words at least one of the short stories floating about in my head. Will also try and put some new photos up. Right now, though... bed! Long day behind, must sleep.
Word of the Day for September 12th, 2009
incorporate
1. to form into a legal corporation.
2. to put or introduce into a body or mass as an integral part or parts: to incorporate revisions into a text.
3. to take in or include as a part or parts, as the body or a mass does: His book incorporates his earlier essay.
4. to form or combine into one body or uniform substance, as ingredients.
5. to embody: His book incorporates all his thinking on the subject.
6. to form into a society or organization.
7. to form a legal corporation.
8. to unite or combine so as to form one body.
9. legally incorporated, as a company.
10. combined into one body, mass, or substance.
11. Archaic. embodied.
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Written about Friday 2009-09-11
Written: (5504 days ago)
Word of the Day for September 11th, 2009
percolate
1. to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
2. (of a liquid) to filter through; permeate.
3. to brew (coffee) in a percolator.
4. to pass through a porous substance; filter; ooze; seep; trickle.
5. to become percolated: The coffee is starting to percolate.
6. to become active, lively, or spirited.
7. to show activity, movement, or life; grow or spread gradually; germinate: Interest in the idea has begun to percolate.
8. a percolated liquid.
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Word of the Day for September 10th, 2009
livid
1. having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc., as the face, flesh, hands, or nails.
2. dull blue; dark, grayish-blue.
3. enraged; furiously angry: Willful stupidity makes me absolutely livid.
4. feeling or appearing strangulated because of strong emotion.
5. reddish or flushed.
6. deathly pale; pallid; ashen: Fear turned his cheeks livid for a moment.
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Word of the Day for September 9th, 2009
morbid
1. suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
2. affected by, caused by, causing, or characteristic of disease.
3. pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
4. gruesome; grisly.
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Fancy Lin-stock - because why should I only submit to dA?
Word of the Day for September 7th, 2009
philistine
1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
2. (initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia.
3. (sometimes initial capital letter) lacking in or hostile to culture.
4. smugly commonplace or conventional.
5. (initial capital letter) of or belonging to the ancient Philistines.
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Written about Monday 2009-09-07
Written: (5509 days ago)
As of now, I am dubbing Sunday (as long as there's no gaming) Writing Day. Let's see how long that lasts.
In case any of you were wondering, Word of the Day shall recommence tonight.
Photoshop is stupid. <_<
Having a cold is stupid, too. I was trying to make my first proper manip today but didn't have the patience for Photoshop. Bleh. They should install Gimp on uni computers.
Holyfuckwhat?
Comment before I start liking this more than it deserves. :P
Look, I will say, give me that knife
and I will peel myself like a ripened apple
red-cheeked, bleeding my heart's juice
all over trembling fingers and I will
strip, cut and slice
until there is nothing left
but for a whisper of bare skin and bones
and seeds that will never grow
without the blood of my sacrifice, the ashes
of my core, the heart
that yielded none of its secrets
and kept all of its loves.
It's a beautiful day for starting preparations for the new term. I've now marked in my calendar the dates and times for those classes I'll be taking for sure, and am going to try and talk with some of my teachers about my missing credentials later this week. Tomorrow, if possible. Also going to buy a sports pass for both terms - I intend to start going to the gym, hopefully a tad more regularly than I did in the spring. And then there's a newly opened stack of post-its for daily/weekly to-do lists. This week, aside from the already mentioned items, I'm supposed to do laundry, clean up my room and get another, bigger cactus to replace the ivy I let die last year. Then, if I have time and inspiration, I'll perhaps write a bit and play with Photoshop CS on one of the school computers. I still have those photomanip ideas, see.
Yeah. As homesick as I am inevitably going to be, it's good to get back to studying.
In other news, yay for signing up on courses... finally! I'll have to discuss some courses with their respective teachers because I might lack the credentials from previous ones, but at least I've signed up for those that I need to repeat all of. Plus the Pronunciation course for this term.
...that was horrible English. I'm going back to bed. <_<