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conuly's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6
Average number of words per sentence:	11.28
Average number of syllables per word:	1.43
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Okay. Since when has "the number of syllables per word" been a reliable indicator of ideal grade level? Banal, irony, smite, these are not words your average 6th grader can use correctly (much to my unending shame), but any 5 year old can say "supercallifragilisticexpiallidocius" (incidentally, the book was better. Much better). Continuing that, I can have very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long sentences without making the sentence harder to understand... that says nothing for the complexity of the sentences, etc. It also goes without saying that this says nothing about the content of my journal, only about the alleged writing style... we can all come up with very short and simple porn that would give me a low grade rating. Hm. That's pretty funny, actually....

Anyway, so, it's interesting, but not worth paying attention to. Yep.

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Can you believe I just found this?

I think I've finally decided on Seth and Ana's christmas presents...

I'm posting here to warn Jenn and Lizziey.

One set of blocks
The second set
The third set
And one of these

I can afford them, they're well reccommended, and they look moderately interesting for the six month old mind. I'll have to order them online, though, which is a pain, but they're more expensive in the store.

I'm a mod.

Yay.

Urg. I'm not sure what happened...

I went to bed at 10 last night, slept until 6. I was up until 8(am), then I went back to bed and slept until 5. I'm still not sure how that happened. That's well over the RDA of sleep. Am I sick or something? If I'm sick, I shouldn't visit Jenn tomorrow, I might make Seth or Ana sick (it's Jenn's birthday).... But I wanna see the babies!!!!

Christmas carols are stuck in my head...

Which would be fine, but one of them is Rudolph, the Rednosed Reindeer. I have some serious problems with this song.

1. Quite a few people say "none of the other reindeers", something which will very quickly drive me into a homicidal rage.
2. More importantly, I don't like the message of the song. I know many people think it's such a good song because first he's teased, then accepted because of his difference, but I don't know if they hear the same song I hear.

First the reindeer tease Rudolph for being different. Instead of realizing that they're not worth his time, Rudolph apparently is quite sad about this. Then, because his difference is useful, they decide to be friends. What if his difference hadn't been useful? They would've kept teasing him? And poor Rudolph, how long would it have taken for him to realize that such shallow people aren't worth his time?

There's also Santa Claus is Coming to Town. I'm not sure which is scarier, Santa as a substitute deity, or Santa as Big Brother. Either way, I hate that song. HatehateHATE it. "he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake". Perv. Does he also see me on the toilet?

*le sigh* Mostly, I like christmas carols... I just don't like the secular ones very much. They're so... wrong.