Signs Facebook Is Taking Over Your Life

1.     Generally, it is the first website you type in while surfing the net.
2.     You have specifically taken photos with the intention of uploading them to  facebook.
3.    You communicate with someone either in the same room or in the same house you currently reside in.
4.    You sit on there, even when there isn’t any new news showing up.
5.    You accept friend requests even from people you haven’t met in real life
6.    You’ve been hooked on Farmville, Mafia Wars, Mousehunt, etc… or any other game on there for that matter.
7.    You update your status more than once a day
8.    You are guilty of facebooking stalking (not as uncommon as you may think).
9.    You have more than say 500 friends.
10.  You create events frequently on there without inviting at least some of the people in person
11.    Your facebook messaging has all but replaced your regular email
12.    You hold multiple poking wars at once.
13.    You have albums and albums of photos from everything from your new haircut to your second cousin’s first birthday party.
14.   You have filled out most of the info categories for your profile such as favorite books, movies, and your personal hobbies. 
15.   You have more than 75 listed profile pictures.
16.  Your entire extended family and your goldfish are listed on your profile information.
17.    You are always on facebook chat (or what might seem like it).
18.   You have a daily fortune cookie.
19.    If you ‘check-in’ for all the snazzy places you go around town and on vacation. 
20. You shamelessly  link your blog for each new entry in hopes of getting more page viewers. *cough* me *cough* 
21.  You have liked 100+ pages (such as for celebrities, bands, or foods).
22.  You are logged in between the hours of 3 A.M. to 6 A.M.
23.  You have a facebook mobile app on your smartphone. 
24.  You have listed ALL the jobs you have ever held including babysitting and mowing lawns as a pre-teen.
25. You provide commentary and feedback for your favorite sports team on a regular basis.
26. You like individual comments for almost every status update you either write or comment on.
27. You have listed out your phone number, address, bank account number, and social security number (hopefully no one would do this with the last two).
28.  You update your about me more than two or three times a year.
29. You’ve filled out surveys about yourself and posted them as notes. 
30. You’ve been spammed more than your fair share and you never learn your lesson to never click on something that looks questionable or too good to be true.
31. You log on multiple times a day hoping you will have a new message or notication.

My intention for doing this was not to step on people’s toes.  I wanted to poke fun at the wide-spread popularity of Facebook.   I am a self-admitted Facebook addict so you are in good company if you can answer yes to more than ten of these. 

The numbers I have underlined, I am guilty myself of doing.

The Bond of a Common Language

Recently, I watched a movie called the Grass Is Greener with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.  I am horrible at memorizing movie quotes, but one line stated by the oil millionaire, Charles, went something like this, "The one thing that seems to separate us Americans and you British is the bond of a common language." 

I find this both humorous and true.  Another term from this movie was Anglophile.  This probably applies to me because I really to have a deep-rooted fascination for the British as a whole. 


Evidence:


1.  I took a British Lit. class last semester for Fun.  I am not even an English major...


2.  Even though I'm not very good with accents, I particularly try to imitate British accents.


3.  On a Europe trip to England, France, and Spain, my all-time favorite place was Salisbury, England (like the steak).  There was an awesome cathedral that I fell in love with due to its understated simplicity.

 












4.  Reading books by British authors... One of my favorites genres of literature

5.  I love tea... yes, I am a coffeeholic, but I would love to establish a daily tea time for myself {scones and all :)}


6.  I always wish my last name had something added on to the end of it such as Longsworth or Longsmith... essentially, a surname that was undeniably British in nature.


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Some would say we speak the exact same language just with a 'funny accent.'  I will list below some words used in Britain that would never be used here in America, unless by a British transplant to the States.

I perused through a lengthy list of British slang.  Here are my absolute favorites:

Diddle:  to cheat someone out of money- to short change them

Full of beans:  have WAY too much energy; usually applies to young kids with 'ants in their pants'

Gormless:  someone who is clueless

Wonky:  something that is unstable or shaky


I obtained the words from and paraphrased the definitions a bit: 
http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml

An Uncharacteristic Word to the Wise

Since I claim to be a 'word nerd', I figured I would have some fun with the English language.  To briefly describe what I mean, I will be:  looking up obscure, unheard of words and try to guess what they mean.  Then I will look up the actual meanings, list them out, and see how close I came to guessing them. 

1. cloakatively: 

This should be interesting... 

My Guess:  Someone wearing a cloak that talks way too much.

The Dictionary's Response:  superficially

Example used in a sentence:  These reforms have only cloakatively made the situation better for the poor. 

2. exipotic

First thing that came to mind was Harry Potter... 

My Guess:  A smell from the outside.

The Dictionary's Response:  purgative; cleansing the body of illness

    
Example used in a sentence:  While the medicine was                                              exipotic  to his body, it made a mess of his bathroom. 

3. kexy

Besides the obvious replacement of the letter k with s...

My Guess:  An unorderly personality?!

The Dictionary's Response:   dry, brittle, withered

Example used in a sentence:  The rustling of the kexy leaves alerted the campers to the bear's presence. 

(FYI- This sentence makes me laugh.)

4.   macellarious

My Guess:  A hilarious, masterminding sort of celery. 

The Dictionary's Response: pertaining to butchers or meat markets 

Example used in a sentence:  Some practitioners of the macellarious arts are more humane to animals than vegans.

(I might have been 'slightly' off-base.)

5. mowburnt

This sounds made up...

My Guess:  scorched grass that shouldn't have been mowed in advance.

The Dictionary's Response: of crops, spoiled by becoming overheated 

Example used in a sentence:   The heat wave last August left us with heaps of mowburnt and useless crops.

(I was surprisingly close with my guessing game.)

6. obstrigillate 

My guess:  An overbearing presence or obstacle to be overcomed.

The Dictionary's Response: to oppose; to resist 

Example used in a sentence: I will not obstrigillate the efforts of my opponent to besmirch my good name. 

(Besmirch?  that's another word that I don't know.. oh well)

7. paterophobia 

Yay, I have a chance to guess part of it!

My Guess:  A fear of patterns?

The Dictionary's Response:  fear of the early Church fathers 

Example used in a sentence:  The Romans' paterophobia mellowed over time, until Christianity was fully accepted.

(Interesting... I might have to google this one and find out more about it.)

 

8. weequashing

My Guess:  Quieting down a toddler yelling, "Wee..." in public.

The Dictionary's Response:  spearing of fish or eels by torchlight from canoes

Example Used in a Sentence:  The Scouts went out weequashing, but they forgot to obtain the proper permit.

(I can sincerely say that I would have never guessed this one in a million years.  Talk     
about a random word.)

I figure you have read enough for now.  I need to give thanks where it is due.  I got the words and the example sentences from the website:  http://phrontistery.info/clw4.html

Summer Reading List

~Hundred Years of Solitude

~Lovely Bones

~Atlas Shrugged

~Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café

~A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

~Anna Karenina

~Catch 22

~Doctor Zhivago

~1984

~Mrs. Dalloway

~Heart of Darkness

~The Brothers Karamazov

~Tom Jones

~Madame Bovary

~A Room With a View

~A Farewell to Arms

I think that might be good for now.  I have the habit of reading multiple books at once.  I hope to read all of these by the end of summer, but if that doesn’t happen at least I will be able to have down a list to refer back to. 

The books that are written in bold lettering are those that I have either started or am in the middle of reading.