Comments on: For your edermahcayshun

By: lili

lili — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 01:26:19 +0000

(procrastinates and has fun on wikipedia) they're the same thing. 'couch' comes from the french se coucher (go to sleep), and 'sofa' comes from the arabic suffa, which was the raised part of the floor, decorated with cushions and rugs, where a council would meet. and that's what i learned today!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:55:30 +0000

"I can't believe you are celebrating global warming!" heh, it was 34F [blog overlord says: 1.1111111111111112C] today. in texas. in november. in the freaking daylight. i wore two shirts, a hoodie, and a big winter coat, complete with giant wool scarf, and i was still freezing my arse off. i started wondering if maybe i hadn't wandered into new york by accident. i learned that it is not possible to write 14,000 words in one hour. "I have learned that procrastinating only makes you want to kick yourself in the face." Yes. Tomorrow, the Great Homework Crunch of 2006 will begin. *shudder* i think i might wind up in a straightjacket by the end of this semester.

By: Justine

Justine — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:11:27 +0000

Rebecca: I learned that it is not possible to write 14,000 words in one hour.

Hah!

Lili: I have no idea what the diff is. Though “sofa” was a word I learned later than “couch”.

By: lili

lili — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:40:25 +0000

I have never bought a sofa (or a couch for that matter).

what’s the difference? i have been wondering.

By: Justine

Justine — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:52:54 +0000

Lili: 266 on the most placid wicked in the world does not signal an English revival. Neither England nor Australia had exactly spectacular days today.

I have never bought a sofa (or a couch for that matter).

That’s not remotely unpatriotic. All workplace-related deaths are tragic.

By: lili

lili — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:49:27 +0000

and three days after it snowed (here in melbourne) it was 38 degrees! (celcius)

today i learned that:

1. aussies should never get too cocky about english cricketers being crap.

2. buying a sofa makes you feel like a grown up.

3. i am enormously unpatriotic and clearly a bad person for suggesting that _all_ workplace-related deaths are tragic, not just the ones that happen to people working in the military.

By: Katerate

Katerate — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:08:29 +0000

I have learned that procrastinating only makes you want to kick yourself in the face. This I probably have learned many times before but uhhhhhh haven’t really retained. How can people NOT procrastinate (or at least have the urge to)? This is something I would really like to learn about.

By: janet

janet — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:10:53 +0000

I learned today that Ellen Klages’s debut novel, “The Green Glass Sea” is on the shelves!

By: margo

margo — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:28:56 +0000

Hey, it snowed in Tamworth this month – well, technically not this month. In late November. Was bloody cold here, too. Since September it has been one pyjama/bedlinen crisis after another, with several nights waiting for the roof to blow off, too.

Also, (for marrije) I learned about 15 years ago from Marrickville Council that Chinese Tallowwoods are crap street trees, because when they’re not dropping leaves, they’re dropping catkins, or little foot-hurting seedpods, or pollen. All this for a bit of autumn colour.

By: marrije

marrije — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:27:12 +0000

i have learned that you shouldn’t park your car under a tree that has many pigeons in it. because it will make your boyfriend the car washer very sad.

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:21:23 +0000

Oh sure, it snowed in Melbourne this month. As you know it ain’t the snowing time of the year in Australia. Plus it doesn’t snow in Melbourne.

By: veejane

veejane — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:16:44 +0000

I celebrate global warming now, because I will have plenty reason to curse it when it snows in May.

(As far north as I am, global warming comes through not as actual consistent temperature rise, but as completely WTF haywire weather. We take what entertainment we can out of it. And wear layers.)

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:49:44 +0000

I can’t believe you are celebrating global warming! But I forgive you on account of your knuckle injury.

By: veejane

veejane — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:11:59 +0000

I learned that 60F [blog overlord says: 15.555555555555557C] weather on the last day of November warrants celebration, even if it includes rain.

Also, that gravity happens even to scalding coffee, and directly onto the knuckles of one’s left hand.