Y'know, there's a certain movie preview

Which certain people have already been able to comment on quite intelligently, and which I have finally been able to load... and it still won't play more than 5 seconds before restarting. No joke.

Ponderings from the Eclogues...

(aka Virgil's Bucolics)

Interesting word in the 9th Eclogue, umbracula. Umbra means "shade" and "ul" is a diminuative, so an "umbracula" is a "little umbrella". Which is a nice word for those pocket umbrellas (umbrellae?), especially ones where the ribs aren't made properly because of shoddy construction... then you have a nice vampire umbrella.

And in the 10th Eclogue we get this nice word "minio" which means "cinnabar"... the same wood miniatures were made of. They apparently aren't miniature because of the size but because of the color that they no longer have to be, in the same way that the canary is named after the island instead of the other way around (and the islands are named after dogs).

Anyway, we got chocolate. And now I gotta go. Djusk' a, djusk' a!

*deathglares*

VERY IMPORTANT.

The word is NOT backround. It is backGround. It comes from the word "back" and the word "ground". A small amount of thought should convince you that "round" doesn't come into it at all. If you're ever inclined to say "backround", remember that the Bad Spelling Demon eats little boys and girls for dinner if they refuse to spell correctly. I won't tell you what he does to adults.

B A C K G R O U N D

Get it right!

WTF?

Spending Soars for Children's Behavioural Meds

They're now giving behavioural medication for children under five? Ritalin? For AD(H)D for children under five years of age? What is WRONG with people? At five years old, do you really know if the child isn't just being a little absentminded and hyper? You know, like five year olds are supposed to be? If they're prescribing medication that early, can we really trust people to actually try teaching these kids how to behave and control themselves? More importantly, do we really know what these medications do to young children when they take them for several years?

Of course, I don't really know enough about this to talk. So I'll hush now.

*pulls hair out*

WHY IS IT DOING THIS?????

My livejournal... my precious livejournal... is being MEAN TO ME AND BEING DOWN ALL THE TIME!!! WAAAAAAAA!