Today is Christmas Day. A bit cooler than usual for Austin, Texas. We got surprisingly high tech gifts this year—including an iHome for the old iPod. Having the iPod attached to an external speaker has already made a big difference. I must not be of the headset or the ear bud generation and could never bring myself to use the iPod on my head. It’s fun to have it playing away through the speaker. I feel so iModern.
Don’t have a plan of Resolutions yet. I would like to keep writing on a frequent basis. I did two papers to wind up my semester as a graduate student—a paper on “Olympics as Television” and the other was on “Seinfeld: In the Sitcom Tradition.” I noticed the effort helped me with putting in concentrated effort. I learned some things with both papers—got some sense of how to write a Research Paper with the Olympics effort and learned much about American comedy with its roots in minstrel shows and the Borscht Belt and the evolution into television comedy. I did sweat getting the papers completed.
Learned the word “doozie,” meaning “something outstanding or unique of its kind" came from the Dusenberg automobile. Just checked that on the computer dictionary and they said doozie was of unknown 20th century origin. Does that mean I know something the dictionary does not know? Well, I’m calling it a victory. Merry Christmas!
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