Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts

Monday, January 26, 2009

Smoothie-goodness

Three satsumas and a banana with a glass of water to emolify (emoliate and mollify - I thought there would be a word like this but no!) - delicioso!

Also: Great organic, fair trade, super-lovely online store: www.simplyfair.co.uk - MASSIVE sale! Boxes of 25 teabags for 10p! AMAZING!

Further ideas for future career - please note that there is no need for me to make any money in this way, as I am lucky enough to be independently wealthy thanks to my very hard-working family, however, I would obviously like them to add happiness and fulfillment to my life as well as improving the world at large:
Clothes designer/manufacturer
Model - either by going to Japan and getting one of those instant contracts all blondes get offered, or by signing myself up for speciality shoots - maybe torsos, or necks for showcasing jewellery - maybe those 'ordinary model' agencies...
Flotilla Hostess/Captain
Guide on holiday/clubbing trips with deafblind or deaf people like Mandy
Sensory foster carer/Sensory respite care centre manager
Academia and book-writing - this is actually the one to which I am heading right now
Dancer/entertainer, or hostess at such a venue (bar, club, restaurant, cafe)
Corporate or government advisor
Speed-dating/matchmaking service for disabled people
'Religious' minister/vicar
Marriage celebrant
Security consultant
School headmistress
Palliative care consultant

Oh, and whilst channelling the Bard, I was thinking many deep cod-Shakespearean thoughts:
Where dost thou go? T'is nearer to trek the world's width than to ask favours of thine children. Never was it necessary, when seed did care for the flower in its autumn days. But with each new moon the fervour increases; A fever in the breast that compels to obtain for thine own use that which is destined for thine fathers. And on the day when the well runs dry, and strong hands abandon the mill to fetch water from further afield, the calf will protect and suckle the bull and the steer as they did in their day for the calf.

I also hope to set up the following activities: Best garden in a saucer; Orangery producing own juice.

Movie comparisons:
Erin Brockovich vs. Silkwood: Corporate chemical catastrophe costs lives
Mulan vs. The Worst Witch - young girl having to save the day after being rejected by peers

Words I want to incorporate in my thesis:
abnegate: to deny oneself something
accrete: to grow together; form around/on something
acoupe: to blame, accuse
acrasial: adj excessive, disordered, irregular
adamantine: adj stubborn, resistant to persuasion
adjuvant: adj helpful, ancillary
adonize: to beautify or adorn oneself
adumbrate: vb indicate or describe outline of something
adventitious: adj accidental, unintentional
acolaust: noun Derived from the Greek, the word acolastic(ke) means "a prodigall person" or "one that liveth under no correction, riotous." An acolastic is "incorrigible, not better by chastisement." These are all 17th century usages. The definition given by the OED of acolaust is "One the revels in sensual pleasures (like the prodigal of the parable)," as indicated by the 17th century quotation: "The acolaust loathes the service of that churl, that allowed him no better diet than husks."
tziganologist studies Hungarian gypsies.
euphony
sybarite
voluptuary
prescient
desultory
importunate
fiascoid (fiasco-like)
dilatory
dilotante (S.Plath's spelling - actually, dilettante)
aquiline
phalanx
beignet (type of French doughnut)
provenance
emaciated
faddish
flaccid
imbecilic
verjus (acidic juice from unripe grapes - Middle French = green juice)
ostensibly

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Bling and Bing

Whilst planning my pre-Christmas party for all those lovely people that I wont see again until 2009 (the theme this year is ghetto/grotto fabulous; audacious use of tinsel is encouraged) D-Man was at it again: Scissor Sisters, Shakespeare's Sister and dying a little death... A stream of consciousness not entirely unrelated to his recent pimping efforts... 'Can I watch?' kind of theme...

Moving away from such crudity (which I think you will agree deserved no response), I thought it fitting to bestow festive gifts on the cyber-world. Here then is a list of very fabulous websites for your intellectual delight...

...concerning Gender/LGBTQQ/Queer/Identity/Orientation/Sexuality

1. A journal of awesomeness...art and queer theory, what more do you need?
2. An article on bi-dyke, the terminology that caused D-Man so much befuddlement t'other day
3. Riese's very awesome article at The L Word inspired OurChart site
4. The Journal of Bisexuality for those that want a dip into the warm waters of academic advancement...
5. Helpful list of orientation/gender/sexuality definitions - if these are even possible!

Also a veritable panoply of options for sustaining your inner geekery
1. A fabulous list of weird words I would never have come across if it wasn't for Wikipedia.
2. An amazing application for converting any measurement into any other - nautical rhumbs, homesteads, picofarads, nybbles, kips, scruples-force, kiloponds, dynes angstroms, femtometers, smoots, metric slugs, pennyweights troy, torr, dracontic months, kilderkins, chaldrons...Scrabble championships here I come!
3. A truly awesome bunch of people who for a bit of cash can immeasurably improve your existence...
4. Need to build a robot? No problem, this site has all you need.
5. Tired of your robot, fancy your chances as a megalomaniacal mayor - then build your own city...

Hopefully these tidbits will help while away a few moments of an otherwise monotonous day!

Hasta tarde!
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