Pessimism

I must admit, I had to look up how to spell pessimism. It just isn't in my vocabulary, and any who know me know that I love my extensive vocabulary.

I decided to try pessimism this past semester. As you can guess, it went dismally wrong. I'd have something to be pessimistic about, like not doing well on a quiz or my dad loosing his job, but then I'd come home at the end of the day all sad...and to be quite frank I didn't like that. I've just never really had the opportunity to have so many things to be sad about really...

So you're sad...all the time. Me, I love to smile and try to make others do the same. So I began to think that I was putting up a facade. Why should I act happy when I'm sad? But really, I just turn out to be a happy person. I guess what I'm trying to say guys is that it's not worth it to be sad or overly pessimistic. I've always wondered if by allowing myself to be overly sad I'd be forever condemned to stay so. But no, I think I've come out the better. Cause now I can see how to make the sad things better. I say better instead of happy because you're never going to be happy about loosing an expensive textbook; but there are ways you can go about making it a better situation than sitting there feeling sorry for yourself. Because then you realize the next day when you find that text book at the lost and found that there was no real reason for you to be pessimistic. And if you didn't find it and didn't have the money to buy another? There are ways around that if you just think about it instead of dwelling on being sad.

FW: Crashing the White House

My Aunt sent me this and I sadly must echo  the sentiment about sarcasm. Oh it is glorious, glorious sarcasm!!! :D -Strawboat

 

: Fw: Crashing the White House

 

Ah, the sarcasm in this letter to the editor--Wish I could claim it:

 

I don't understand why the White House is so upset about the two party crashers at Barack Obama's steak dinner the other night.
Is it really appropriate and politically correct to call them party crashers just because they trespassed on Mr. Obama? Does that make them criminals? Isn't that discrimination? Shouldn't they be rewarded for such bold and brave behavior? Maybe they were just trying to feed their family?
I would suggest that it's more appropriate to call them "undocumented guests."
Just because they weren't officially invited doesn't mean they should be treated like criminals. Maybe they should get free health care, free housing, free legal services and free White House green cards so next time they can enter legally. And they should be able to bring all of their relatives and family members, too.
How can Mr. Obama be mad at them just because they crossed over some arbitrary man-made border? They were there only to do the things that regularly invited guests didn't want to do. (Like hang out with Joe Biden.)
How can the White House punish these undocumented visitors?

Husky?

Welcome to Cargo Data

If you followed that link like you should have, I am sure that you would NOT have felt very welcome. I'm doing research on cargo data right now and had to share this website and the abnormally eerie dog that is its mascot. As far as dogs go, huskies are on the list of dogs I don't hate. But this one might just be an exception. Just remember that he can go the distance!

really?

So I've decided that I finally need to make fun of save the words.com. Yes, I love them, but this time I just found too many words that I could make fun of! I'll still do 10 though to keep with tradition.

• pregnatress-female power that generates or gives birth to something

This is the winner to the "Really?" Contest. I mean, WHO would use this word? Hi, I want to be awkward so I'm going to use a word that refers to being pregnant in reference to something I'm talking about. "You, woman, you are a pregnatress of weirdness." I just...could never adopt this word into my vernacular. XD Though it would be hilarious if someone did. Quite hilarious.

• boscaresque-alluring; scenically wooded

Can a word have two oh-so-different definitions? I guess a scenically wooded area is alluring...but it just seems so odd to me. Silly english.

• phoenigm-reddening of the skin

This will now be in reference to a boy who blushes in my presence. Albeit I'll say it, but no one will get it. I'll have to get all my really close friends to sign a waiver saying they will laugh when I use this in the off-situation that a boy blushes in my presence. If I can even say it without sounding like I'm saying phlegm.

• operiment-a covering
  

eh? I think a better definition for this word is combining the definitions of an operation and an experiment. A.K.A. medical trials XD

• rogalian-of or pertaining to a great fire

Maybe this word would be better used in reference to "of or pertaining to a great baldness." Doesn't it just scream rogaine?

• adnascentia-root-like branches that sprout into the earth from a plant's

a plant's what?!?! A PLANT'S WHAT!!!! yeah...they cut off the definition but I'm pretty sure they are in reference to these.

• odynometer-instrument for measuring a pain.

I always wondered what that machine on The Princess Bride was called...

• saburrate-to put sand or gravel in a ship as ballast

O...K...sounds like a captain was drunk when he was giving instructions to his crew to put sand or graval in a ship as ballast.

• secability-capability of being cut

I've got nothing for this one. Just makes me think of Harry Potter... "Sercumceptra!" at least I think that's the cutting one in book 6...

• vacivity-emptiness

This word kinda makes sense actually. I think of vicinity and vacivity as opposite now though even though it doesn't quite work. "Is he in the vacivity?"...Meh!