five foreign words

that cannot be translated into an english equivalent.

1. Fremdschamen - German. Noun. Feeling embarrassed on behalf of another who is ignorant that he or she has any reason to feel embarrassed; vicarious embarrassment.
2. Iktsuarpok - Inuit. Noun. A person who goes outside often in anticipation of expected visitors.
3. Pelinti - Buli language of Ghana. Verb. To move/roll hot food around the mouth.
4. Schadenfreude - German. Noun. Satisfaction with, or pleasure from, the misfortunes of others.
5. Tartle - Scottish. Noun. Hesitation in recognizing a person or thing; the panicky pause immediately before introducing or meeting someone whose name you cannot remember.

got r' done

Untrustworthy

1. attorneys
2. pockets with holes
3. statistics
4. spys
5. fox news

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Spaces

Via: OnlineSchools.org

five things that fade away

1. the fear itself
2. flashlights when you need them most
3. that "new car" smell
4. yellow highlighters
5. 80's haircuts

list idea no. 273

What am I LISTening to? .... dot com.



Geared towards the people who like "discovering" new music but don't have time to do the discovering, whatamilisteningto.com is an up-to-date synopsis of the 30-second or less infectious choruses and instrumental snippets you have heard but probably can't recall where and when you got them stuck in your head. Essentially a digital cliff note of soundtracks to Scion and i-Pod commercials, the most recent montages of Grey's Anatomy and Glee, head bobbing window gazing in your friends' cars on the way to work, or intoxicating beats you have to scream-talk over during the few parties you find time to attend. The website would be complete with ratings on how "new" each song is, full lyrics, embeded youtube music videos, downloadable mp3s, and links to the wikipedia pages of the bands/groups behind it all. Hell, maybe even links to band websites and upcoming shows and/or ticketmaster.

If you are reading this, please take my idea and make it real, or show me where it already exists.

five names I would give my eyeglass retail store

1) Opto-Mom
2) Lookey Lou's
3) Sight for Sore Eyes
4) Up in Frames
5) Lens Stay Together

ten thai restaurants investing in a clever name rather than tasty food

1) Thai it is
3) Nick of Thai
4) Thai Like
5) Thai of Your Life
6) Thai-tanic
7) Thai Thyme
8) Thai-light
9) Thai, Thai Again
10) Please Eat Here!

ten random band names for my fictional five-man band

It's lollapalooza time in Chicago, which always makes me think of (1) what it would be like to be in a band and (2) what I'd convince my band-mates to call ourselves.

1. Crowd Zero
2. Full Facial Fallacy
3. This is What You Were Missing
4. seven day week. end.
5. chairperson
6. fire proof bridges
7. paws play
8. Tangent
9. dance like this
10. the phil ists

five things to do besides study

1) Stare out my window into a high-traffic alley. I saw a car side-swipe a trash can earlier and knock off its mirror. Now I listen to the crunching of glass and plastic every time another car drives over it.
2) ... facebook ... damn you.
3) Look up lyrics to the (not so) large pool of music that keeps repeating on pandora.
4) Be right back. My girlfriend just asked if I wanted to go for a walk.

::: 20 minutes later :::

5) Post to a blog that I have neglected for the past ten months.

five things that have happened since my last post

1) moved to chicago
2) finished my 1st semester of law school
3) reevaluated my goals, dreams, fears, and love for coffee
4) got engaged on an airplane
5) suffered approximately 3 dozen panic attacks

six professions I will never have, but once wished I would

1) blimp pilot
2) test taster
3) documentarian
4) arson investigator
5) captain of a deep sea fishing boat
6) wienermobile driver

five idioms that would make great autobiography titles

what's an idiom?

1) to make a long story short
2) son of a gun
3) no room to spin a cat
4) let bygones be
5) like a chicken with its head cut off

five things to beware of

1) dog
2) doug
3) greeks bearing gifts
4) shamwow imitators
5) advice

five new names for my book that hasn't been written

1) no (dust)jacket required
2) because i could
3) this is about you
4) platitudes with attitude
5) clever title

listograph

This is what you shall do; find pride in what and who you are, respect experience, love conservatively but care generously, devour knowledge, communicate, remember truth, recognize lies, know the difference, organize your thoughts, question every answer, hate all kinds of hate and nothing else, take what is offered, give what is asked, smile in your sleep, create, forgive those who ask to be forgiven, forgive those who do not, provide solutions, seek improvements, use information, help, recognize everyone and everything around you, humble yourself before greater things, contrast but never compare, breathe deeply, speak openly, see clearly, and your head shall be heavy and your thoughts will live longer than your life.

five questions I'd like to ask barack

1) who's your speech writer?
2) are we there yet?
3) do you have change for a dollar?
4) nervous?
5) can we?

five interesting words

1) megalomania
2) andiron
3) chautauqua
4) oubliette
5) aglet

twenty-five would be far too many

another response to one of my sister's facebook notes. only shorter.

five records that changed the world as I know (knew) it
alt-title: albums that I will most likely listen to till the day I die

1) jurassic 5 - quality control
2) pietasters - willis
3) daft punk - homework
4) cake - prolonging the magic
5) weezer - blue album

what's sad is there are albums I left off this list because I'm embarrassed by them...