At a loss with what to do with my post-semester homeworkless life. Well, okay, so I actually have a lot of reading for my class. But I'm done for this week. And have been for a few hours. So I was sitting around, sipping a nice little coffee drink, watching reruns of Friends, and thinking, "Oh what to do, what to DOOOO?!" (with some conviction.) And, well my friends, this blog entry is all I've come up with. Such is my life. I'd like to thank the venerable Amy Schultz, once again, for providing me with inspiration and perfectly apt material for this blog. Amy, we here at Kat'sblogspot salute you.

So Amy sent me this list of words that everyone should know. And we all should! So to help us all on this little assignmnet I have endeavored to compose them all into a short sort of story. Definitions provided at the end for your edification. Bon Apetit.

The sun rose over excavation site R22 one morning only to find one Stanley R. Lewis embrambled over a mystifying piece of thousand year old cullet. An abnormally loud borborygmus issued from Stanley's stomach and intruded upon the perfect silence of the Mecedonian plain. An eminent garbologist, Stanley had spent all night with his new astounding find, archaically refferred to as a "Recycling center" by the extinct breed of hominoids that inhabited the area in the latter half of the 21st century. Reluctantly leaving his place in the dirt to go satisfy his visceral craving for breakfast, he stubbed his hallux on a rock protruding from the earth. Thus Norman Vergosse found him, grabbing his ailing appendage, hopping up and down, and yelping. Norman was Stanley's arch-nemesis. A beaurocrat from the university who was determined to bring down the school's fading department of Garbology bit by bit. A member of the prominent class of new digerati, unconcerned with the past and bent on modernizing contemporary studies. Norman approached the vulnerable Stanley, kicking aside a loose piece of artifact and watching it clatter down the sloping site until it rolled resolutely to a stop. The two men were true antipodes; they stared at each other across a wide gulf of opposites and disagreement. "I've come to tell you that you have finally been weighed, meausred, and found wanting, Mr. Lewis. Your otiose little endeavors here will be called off within the month. Your department's like high heels on a mermaid and you know it." Until this very moment Stanley had always attempted to bear Norman at least some good will, maintaining that perhaps some terrible calamity had made him this way. Perhaps he was lonely. Perhaps his unaffectionate mother had defenestrated him as a child. The world may never know. But at this moment in Stanley Lewis's life something became very clear, one stark, pellucide line had set itself between the two men, destroying all black and white and dividing them into good and evil. Norman was, in fact, a malignant agent, but Stanley was determined that the amicable little Department of Garbology should never be dismantled through the auspices of paper pushers.

1. Defenestrate: "throw somebody or something out of window: to throw something or somebody out of a window (formal or humorous)"

It is quite entertaining to defenestrate paper airplanes.
2. Garbology: "study of waste materials: the study of a cultural group by an examination of what it discards"

Garbology might be a good career choice for dumpster divers. Recycling may make the job of future garbologists extremely difficult--they'll have less to study.

3. Digerati: "computer experts: people who have or claim to have a sophisticated expertise in the area of computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web"

Not too long ago, computer expertise was considered nerdy. These days, many people strive to be among the digerati.

4. Antipodes:
1. "places at opposite sides of world: places at opposite sides of the world from each other, or the areas at the side of the world opposite from a given place"
2. "opposites: two points, places, or things that are diametrically opposite each other"

One could say that Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli and Warren "Potsie" Weber are antipodes.

5. Hallux: "first digit on the foot: the big toe on the human foot, or the first digit on the hind foot of some mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians (technical)"

The ballerina had her hallux insured for $10 million!

6. Otiose:
1. "not effective: with no useful result or practical purpose"
2. "worthless: with little or no value"
3. "lazy: unwilling or uninterested in working or being active (archaic)"

Will e-mail render traditional letter writing otiose? Let's hope not.

7. Cullet: "glass to be recycled: broken or waste glass returned for recycling"

Don't forget to take the cullet out to the curbside, and be sure to put it next to the trash, not in it.

8. Pellucid:
1. "clear in meaning: easy to understand or clear in meaning (formal)"
2. "transparent: allowing all or most light to pass through (literary)"

The police officer's warning was pellucid: drivers must go the speed limit in the school zone.

9. Borborygmus: "stomach rumble: the rumbling sounds made by the movement of gases in the stomach and intestine (technical)"

If you lay your head on someone's stomach, you are likely to hear borborygmus.

10. Embrangle: "perplex somebody: to confuse, perplex, or entangle somebody or something (archaic)"

As Lord Needlebottom attempted to explain the rules of cricket, his American friends became more and more embrangled.