Okay, so I'm a nerd and proud of it. I unabashedly claim my nerdiness to my students, and encourage them to embrace who they are as well.
Tonight my nerdiness is being rivaled....
My roommates and I are just sitting around, talking, watching Rocky, laughing, emailing, reading, etc.
I picked up my book, thinking I might actually be able to read a few pages. From the couch across the room I hear, ooohh!
I looked over...in astonishment, I exclaim: Are you reading the DICTIONARY???
Uhhhh...yes, I am!
No way! No one actually reads the dictionary! Sometimes I tell my students I do, just because I know they will believe me, but no one actually reads it!
Other roommate: She does this all the time.
Here are some things I have been hearing since I picked up my computer:
A heifer is a young cow. Other roommate chips in: usually a female.
Fussbudget means one who fuss or is fussy about trials.
Did you know a flock of geese is called a gaggle?
Other roommate: Do you know what a flock of crows is called?
Me: a craggle, obviously.
No, a murder.
Well, she is still flipping through the pages of her Miriam Webster Pocket Dictionary, but hasn't been sharing for awhile. Maybe she is in the X's....
Tonight my nerdiness is being rivaled....
My roommates and I are just sitting around, talking, watching Rocky, laughing, emailing, reading, etc.
I picked up my book, thinking I might actually be able to read a few pages. From the couch across the room I hear, ooohh!
I looked over...in astonishment, I exclaim: Are you reading the DICTIONARY???
Uhhhh...yes, I am!
No way! No one actually reads the dictionary! Sometimes I tell my students I do, just because I know they will believe me, but no one actually reads it!
Other roommate: She does this all the time.
Here are some things I have been hearing since I picked up my computer:
A heifer is a young cow. Other roommate chips in: usually a female.
Fussbudget means one who fuss or is fussy about trials.
Did you know a flock of geese is called a gaggle?
Other roommate: Do you know what a flock of crows is called?
Me: a craggle, obviously.
No, a murder.
Well, she is still flipping through the pages of her Miriam Webster Pocket Dictionary, but hasn't been sharing for awhile. Maybe she is in the X's....
Oh, I miss those days!!
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