Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Abacinatrix

Hello old friend, dear blog.  You thought I had vanished, been whisked away by the demands of that vicious headmaster, Herr Schedule, reduced to a wisp of my former self by the twin succubi Duty and Demand.  But I persist here, abacinated by stress, scorched with a center that has lost its hold, but persisting nonetheless.

Grambie came to visit this weekend, to celebrate Addie's big-girl 4th birthday, and to generally bring merriment and joy:




Before she left, she gave me the awesome gift of Foyle's Philavery:  A Treasury of Unusual Words.  Abacinate is the first.  It means:

to blind someone by putting re hot metal before their eyes (note:  the word occurs in many dictionaries but I can find no recorded uses of it in a text apart from the lyrics of the 1986 song 'Angel of Death' by American thrash metal band Slayer.

Isn't that great?  I've managed to turn a post about how depressed I've been, how bereft, how lost, into something hilarious, simply by incorporating the word "abacinate," which in turn references Slayer.  Things are looking up already.

I won't go on at length.  I'm mostly not sure what's wrong with me, but am thinking it's some combination of overwork and hormone fluctuations and a generally angsty temperament.  It could be, too, that the damned leaves are taking too long to bud, or that my work involves reading the constant doomsday pronouncements of environmental studies scholars.  Maybe I just need a pedicure.

There are many moments of beauty in my life, of that I'm sure.  Watching Grambie draw with Addie, and Nolie reaching out for hugs from her; a dozen kids doing their best to beat hell out of Addie's birthday pinata, to no avail (I finally ripped the thing apart with by bare hands, which was strangely therapeutic); the word "abacinate"; the band Slayer.  I'll just focus on these for now, until the next crying jag knocks me in the ass.  Abacinate, abacinate, abacinate.

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