I had one class Friday, and three yesterday. Tomorrow I’ll have four, which is going to be one hell of a day. The first course starts at 10 am. I get out at 2:15, run home to get the girl…
Distrait
Another new word! Word of the Day for Tuesday, January 4, 2005 distrait \dis-TRAY\, adjective: Divided or withdrawn in attention, especially because of anxiety.
Any Latin Readers?
I found free online translation stuff, but the results aren’t very good. Could someone pretty please translate this quote from Catullus for me? Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior Edited to add…
Skookum
I subscribe to several different “word of the day” lists. Some are technical, like the whatis.com list. One is from Buzzwhack. Several are just “normal” lists. Every time there’s actually a new-to-me word on one of them, I get all…
Netflix Queue
wordweaverlynn was talking about Netflix queues a while back. I meant to reply, but at this date, it would be weird to reply to the post. The list is also just too danged long to put in a comment. Amazingly,…
Ick. Requesting Help.
I’ve never, ever done this before. It’s very hard now. However, the data recovery on the hard drive is $600. I am not going to be able to finish my coursework without that data, which will mean losing my financial…
An Explanation
I’ve identified one reason that many documents produced by “technical communicators” are so unreadable. Our professors consider someone who uses “foregrounding” rather than “focusing on” in an article to be an authority.
More Feedback, Please?
One of my other assignments is to create a patient information brochure about fibromyalgia. I’ve uploaded it to my website as a PDF and would appreciate any constructive criticism you care to give me. It’s designed to be printed as…
What Do You Think?
One of the assignments for my medical communications course is to write a feature article about my chosen topic (fibromyalgia), to be submitted for publication. Feedback, please? Edit: Reworked to include some of your wonderful suggestions. Thank you 🙂
Weekend Report
Well, it was a busy weekend, and I was looking forward to a quiet Monday. I didn’t get it, but it could have been much worse. Friday night, my marvelous family hosted a birthday party for me. curiousmay9 and I…