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Thursday, August 19, 2010

A blog that isn't about bursa

When I first got my randomly-generated word for today I was concerned. Not because I knew what the word was, or thought it would be difficult to write about, but because, yet again, I had no clue what the word meant. I generally accept myself to be pretty well-versed in my vocabulary, but the "uncommon" level of my random-word generator has been continually leaving me stumped. I was about to consider it a personal failure that I wasn't familiar with any of these words when I googled it and realized why. " A bursa is a small, fluid-filled sac lined by synovial membrane with an inner capillary layer of slimy fluid (similar in consistency to that of a raw egg white)." Um, ew? Maybe I wasn't so far off yesterday when I dubbed this generator "obscure skin diseases that will make your stomach turn to look at". Maybe I was just being too specific. I am going to formally change my description of this level of the word generator to "obscure, nasty things about your body that you didn't really want to know about... or hear compared to breakfast food". Or maybe "things that would be awkward to find in your boyfriend's search history." I'm beginning to think the creators of this word generator and just trying to mess with me. Kudos to them for making me title two successive posts after sickening bodily anomalies. Maybe some day I will be blessed with a nice word like "religiosity" or "cinnabar". Damn, cinnabar? I just got those words out of the random word generator as well. With words like "cinnabar" in that generator, how do I keep getting stuck with "bursa" and "seborrhea"? I want to write about cinnabars, that sounds delicious. I wonder what it means. I wonder if they have cinnaminibars as well...

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