maffick

maffick: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior; "Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900

Ugh. These feelings I am having, they are abstruse at best.  I should be rejoicing, celebrating the accomplishment of getting into grad school, relishing the opportunities that now lie before me.  But in all honesty, there is something missing.  The same "keep your nose to the grind stone" motivation that got me through my undergraduate program seems to be exhausted.  I used it all up during the last four, no, the last sixteen years of my academic life.

Now I'm in Seattle, on the UW campus for orientation. It's grey and everything is so...underwhelming...so underwhelming, in fact, that it seems to be overwhelming. That's paradoxical, I know, but I'll go with it anyway. The golden question is, how long will it take me to make it though this degree? Double ugh.

see? Grey, I told you, everything is grey, stupid Puget Sound

This is my future: cat-eyed glasses and a beehive!

Okay, sometimes it's not grey

On the upside of things, Nancy and her husband, Colin let me stay with them for the extended weekend.  I ate chicken curry, spoke a little Spanish, went to rainy soccer practice, and got lectured in a British accent (Colin is verbose, quite like myself, and it was less of a lecture and more of advice, I suppose). I bought them a stunning orchid as thanks for their hospitality.

neologism

neologism: a newly coined word or expression, rising in use

I started reading my first assignment for LIS (Library and Information Science) 510 this morning, and already, I have reservation, contestations even, with the first sentence. THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE of my graduate education, and I already have issues. Oh boy, oh bother. Here's my rant, hopefully, getting it off my chest will allow me to  move on and finish reading this stupid article...

Yeah okay, we get it. You are smart, and are a doctoral student, and wrote this fancy pants article. But seriously?! "Necessitatean" is not a word. Probably never will be. I mean, what the fuck does it even mean? You could have just said "made necessary." I even looked in the latin dictionary. It's not in there. You can't just make up words! What merit badge allows you to do that in a scholarly article? Only children who are confused about the past tense and grammatical structure of modern English do that. You are being a child! Or are you? Fine, make up your own words. Go right ahead. Maybe I'm just jealous. humpf. Whatever. "Necessitatean" is not a word! bottom line.