December 18, 2009

coruscate: v.

• sparkle: reflect brightly
• sparkle: be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity

coruscation: n.

1. a coruscating; sparkling 2. a flash or gleam of light 3. a sudden brilliant display, as of wit


I like this word.

December 18, 2009

Yeah, so I'm not doing very well in keeping this updated. Sorry about that :P.

Today is my first day of winter break! I'm home and it's been snowing pretty much non-stop since ten or eleven last night. I woke up this morningslightly after-noon and started listening to music on my computer on random setting. The song "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Sufjan Stevens came on and it occurred to me that I didn't really know the lyrics and I should look them up since I usually don't have the time or ability to do so when I am busy at school(where for some months now I have had limited internet access). So I did, and sang along, and decided to check it out on songmeanings.net because I wasn't sure I understood what was going on. So I did and proceeded to learn that the song is based on a short story of the same name by Flannery O'Connor about a grandmother and her family who encounter an escaped killer while on a family car trip. I really didn't want to waste the beginning of my very first winter break day reading some depressing short story about faith and lack thereof and killing people but after reading several accounts on the songs page from people who had read it, analyzing along with Sufjan's song, I couldn't help myself, I went and read the thing. And it wasn't that bad. Very interesting. Sad sure, but not all that sad, though perhaps my experience was skewed from having read analysis of it beforehand. At any rate, if you too are curious you can read the story here and you can see the page on Sufjan's song here.

And now I shall return to what I should be doing, which is joyfully wasting my time on inane activities while the snow flurries outside my window and the music blares.