Synchronicity!

My new favorite word is
Schadenfreude: pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune.

Avenue Q has a great song for you, frodo :D

lugubrious

that's my word of the day, I just read it in a movie review! :)

it is an adjective that means: mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.

I thought it had something do do with lubrication, but alas... it's still a cool word tho!!!

Just FYI something funny about LoT - I tried doing a search for this thread under "word of the day" and it said "of" "the" and "day" were too common and/or short to do a search for. So it just gave me every thread with the word "word" in it.. grrrr :P

That'll teach you to memorize the word linguistic ;)

Urban Dictionary
 

A friend sent me this and I though it was too funny not to post

Upon hearing about our latest receptionist issue at work (the one thing we can count on in my office), my husband coined a great new term that I will now integrate into my daily parlance.

"Drama Leave"

I have submitted the term to Urban Dictionary under the name of ***** as follows---

Drama Leave:

Time off work to address---or more likely revel in---the train wreck of your life. You're not sick, it's not a vacation, and it's not really an emergency except in your own head.

Example:

"I heard the receptionist arguing with someone on her cell last night, and she's a no show, no call today. I guess she's taking drama leave."

You people with your fancy words. You must all think you're the Pope's mustard maker.

Bwahaha!


Did I mention I took a sick day today? Synchronicity indeed.