Category: ramblings

So… this bottlecap from my Nantucket Nectars lemonade says “Christopher and Rebecca Sears, of Bedford, N.H., have collected hundreds of Nantucket Nectars bottlecaps.” I suppose they’d have to be as bored as I am right now. Bored enough to resort to actually posting something in my blog to pass the time. Thankfully, Lauri interrupts me to ask what effervescent means. So, I pull up m-w.com (Merriam-Webster, the best damn dictionary ever), and out comes:

Main Entry: ef·fer·vesce

Pronunciation: “e-f&r-‘ves

Function: intransitive verb

Inflected Form(s): -vesced; -vesc·ing

Etymology: Latin effervescere, from ex- + fervescere to begin to boil, inchoative of fervEre to boil — more at BREW

Date: 1784

1 : to bubble, hiss, and foam as gas escapes

2 : to show liveliness or exhilaration

– ef·fer·ves·cence /-‘ve-s&n(t)s/ noun

– ef·fer·ves·cent /-s&nt/ adjective

Indeed. Like I said, all bubbly an’ shit.

I’m sitting at work, talking to AAl over AIM, as usual, and punching holes in pieces of paper that seem important, but in the long run, really aren’t. Need to figure out what I did this month, so I can bill NIH’s clients for them, and so I can prove I can do the hours that the higher-ups want to see me doing before they’ll get me some new Macs. It’s a dirty job?