Scribble & a-Scrabble:
Funny to me in a “shouldn’t this be a term for a backscratch?” way. . .
No, the journey has yet to begin, but I’m pretending I’m on vacation this week – staying at the brand new, young-urban-professional aloft in Chapel Hill. In a nod to Ikea and all that trendy Swedish lingo, they’ve given hip prefixes to their amenities, including apparently, the pencils in the room. Formula-1 move over, you’ve got some US competition.
scribble & a-scrabble
Word of the day –
Northern Carolina: According to RyanAir’s billing address drop-down menu, this is the state in which I live.
Hmmm, and yet the gas station makes me enter a zip code to use a credit card. Wonder if RyanAir cross checks that too.
There’s also a note that a Canadian moose is “un orignal.”
No help from the Collins French Concise Dictionary – where neither ornithorynque nor orignal (nor platypus for that matter) is listed. Fortunately, my Robert Micro Poche is nearby.
The first “word of the day.”
Coccinelle (nf) –
French: ladybug
“Ladybug” is my childhood nickname, and now frequently, I’m responding to coccinelle as well. ;)
There will be long airline security lines.
There will be coffee in small, paper cups.
There will be daily vocabulary and pictures of food.
There will be days when I wonder what I was thinking when I got myself into a particular situation.
There’s not much I like more than telling overseas friends I’ll “see them soon!”
So welcome. I’ll put some of it here for you to enjoy as well –
Postcards on the Fridge 