I finally cracked open the GRE study books tonight in hopes to finish my vocabulary flash cards. Did I manage to make a nice stack of flash cards? Yes. Did I even make a dent in the vocab list? No! I've even been skipping words that are familiar to me and words that I can remember quite easily, so this is just quite a process. The way I look at the situation is that if I have to take this test again in my near future, then I suppose it will be nice to have the flash cards already made out.
An interesting thing happened while I was studying, though. Have you realized the "high" language in Disney films? Well, I don't know if you would call the vocabulary list for the GRE high language, but then again, I suppose that is dependent on the individual. I was making out cards tonight, and I ran across a word that seemed quite new to me: boor. A boor is someone who is rude and inconsiderate (just in case some of you out there are also prepping for your GRE, but also to move along with my blog). Immediately, I realized that Belle sings this after Gaston insists she marry him. I believe she says to the chickens, before breaking out in song, "Can you believe him? That boorish, brainless." These words have been sitting right underneath my nose! Well, needless to say, I won't be forgetting boor on the GRE if it is presented to me. Or the word clandestinely (meaning to run away and hide something or one's self) because I realized it was in a song to the musical Wicked. Glinda sings it in the song "Popular" when she says she knows that Elphaba (Wicked Witch of the West) will embrace her popularity secretly. Now, if I could just attach all my words to pop culture icons...
But let's face it; do we really dislike Gaston that much? I sure like him better than the GRE. Sure, he needed an attitude adjustment, but when he ripped open his shirt in the pub to reveal all that magnificent hair on his chest, I knew I was in love with a cartoon. Oh well, smile and say, "Churl!" everyone.
There are few moments in life that make you feel as gross as when you go number two after a walk that has made you sweaty in your "no-no" area.
They aren't kidding when they give it that name... I used to lovingly refer to my addiction as "BlackBerry Fever," but I might as well just refer to them as crack, and I can only see my addiction getting worse once this little bundle of awesomeness reaches me in the mail later this week. 
Today I thought about hair--a department in which I've been blessed. But I've always had this uncanny ability to notice when people have changed theirs. It isn't that I think this is some kind of a trait with which I was born; I just think I'm quite observant when it comes to hair. And you know that people love this. They always say things like, "You're like the only person that noticed my hair." Yeah, that person is me.
Have you ever had one of those mornings when you're so tired that things just happen? They happen without any explanation at all--almost as if by magic. Maybe it will be more clear after I explain:
I finally cracked open the GRE study books tonight in hopes to finish my vocabulary flash cards. Did I manage to make a nice stack of flash cards? Yes. Did I even make a dent in the vocab list? No! I've even been skipping words that are familiar to me and words that I can remember quite easily, so this is just quite a process. The way I look at the situation is that if I have to take this test again in my near future, then I suppose it will be nice to have the flash cards already made out.
This is the most amazing phone that I've ever owned... and I still want a new one. BAH!
