For the record, here’s the words I ended up learning this month: ana: the collection of memorable sayings, writings, or other information of an interesting person. brumous: misty, foggy capax: legally competent daggle: to soil by dragging in the mud deosculate: to kiss affectionately dorty: bad-tempered ensky: to make immortal eoan: related to the dawn [...]

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Last month during National Novel Writing Month I decided to write a 50,000 word novel. My novel started like this: My name is Russ. I’m a journalism student, and I didn’t expect to be in jail. They took me to a squat police station and parked my ass in an interrogation room. They took my [...]

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This month’s 30 day challenge is to learn a word a day. Frankly, this month is sort of a “take it easy” month as I recover from last month’s challenge to write a novel and catch up on a bunch of different things. I’m using Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words as [...]

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In August 2010, my 30 day challenge was to take at least a picture a day. It was a good challenge, because that month I traveled with friends to Tanzania and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. I finally got around to making a picture-a-day public photo gallery with the pictures I selected. Here’s one of my favorite [...]

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(My 30 day challenge for October was to get my finances in order. They’re in pretty good shape at this point, although I still have 6-7 things I want to do. If I get free time, I’ll blog about finances more. But in the mean time, it’s time for a new challenge!) For November, I’ll [...]

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