Word of the day: echt (pronounced "ekt")
Hello. This here's my webjournal. I have an art blog and an English blog, but those are for pictures and assignments, respectively. I felt a need to TALK, and, iDunno, I felt like making another blog (let's hope I won't prove my mother right; that I WILL be able to work 1+ blogs). This is where I'll share my feelings and my views on events, random things, and life in general (my life, anyway). Like the title says, I'm just thinking to myself. If you are a person who has somehow found this needle-in-a-haystack of a blog, you don't have to read it. It's a journal. Leave this page and Google something, if you want.
But all that aside, it's ten minutes to 2 a.m., and I just wanted to get my brilliance of the day out there. For one thing, I had a Eureka moment yesterday: "Duh! It's a chinrest!" That was regarding my viola and the mysterious pain in my jaw. Don't worry. I fixed it.
About that stuff up there @ the top of my post: I thought it would be cool to have a quote of the day and word of the day for every post. It'll keep me interested in my daily activities, as I'll have to be more alert in order to find cool sayings and words. I made up that quote for a character of mine who's gonna be blind...The moral of the story is, basically, almost everyone (if not everyone) will be blinded at one point. They'll still be able to see, sure, but what they see will affect their judgement, cloud it. I think it's a subconscious thing. Like unintentionally discriminating against someone. We probably don't mean to do it, but we'll take something that makes a person different and use it as a reason to push them away, be it to a large or small degree. I'm sure I've done it without knowing it. But the quote describes assuming something about a thing, event, or person based on sight or observation. Don't do it so often. Keep an open mind.
The word is something that I came across by pure chance. My computer's screensaver displays random words and their definitions, and "echt" was on the screen when I looked at it (OK, auto-spellcheck, "echt" is SO a real word). It is an adjective, and it means "authentic and typical" (real and um, typical of). It can also be used as an adverb, "authentically and typically." I had a hard time grasping that concept, but I'm gonna try to use it a lot more; I needs ta build up mah vocabulary.
Listening to: unidentifiable music, courtesy of a class blog.
Currently plotting: a small project due Monday.
Trying to finish: several pictures; Curse of the Blue Tattoo
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