Ahh! Opened the windows in my room for the first time since last autumn. The fresh air and nature sounds are amazing.
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Rescue workers searching for victims of the Chilean earthquake. Breathtaking.
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This would be a good story for another 2012 film -
Say, a small chunk of Earth’s crust sank into the ground, into the mantle, somehow. There’s then a big hole between the other tectonic plates. They float around infinitely, keep crashing into each other and chipping off the edges. And then the Earth is just a big ball of lava. Oh my.
I was scurrying to do a final revision of an English paper on The Scarlet Letter at lunch, right before it was due. But when the period was over I realized I’d forgotten to do a Works Cited page. I printed the paper anyway, grabbed the stack from the printer, and dashed for class. So when it came time to turn it in, I was absolutely stunned to see that there was a Works Cited page. I guess someone had printed it by mistake and left it in the printer tray, and somehow they just happened to use the same sources as I did.
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Know what a polyglot is? It’s just another way of saying a person is multilingual. Yep, so I am a polyglot. 3 languages so far, trying to do Spanish as my fourth.