My Tuesday

So last night I had to babsit my sisters. This is normally a marginally fun thing to do, as Blair and Brooke love to see me, but are getting to that age where they spend far too much time trying to kill each other.

Last night was ok, though. We had dinner, we cleaned up, and we sat down to watch some television. I was about to complain about the fact that all they seem to watch is Nickelodeon and Disney Channel, when lo! the magnificence that is ZIM came on the screen.

Yea, verily, I did see the Invader Zim Christmas Special, and though it wasn't as funny as many of the single episodes were, it was still damned funny.

Oh, and I discovered my sisters love Zim.

( Some highlights )

( My new favorite Christmas song: )

There's also a rant I can't recall, that was funny beyond all reason.

Look for this. Watch it. Love it.

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If you want to see why mslulu and I are always yapping about how wonderful comedianElvira Kurt is, hop on over to her website and watch her Comedy Central TV Special, which is available free on the site.

I don't know if it's the whole thing or highlights; I'm at work and couldn't check it.

Mslulu, I took the liberty of signing you up for her mailing list. Hope you don't mind.

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Ok, so one of the side effects of my being an English major and my love affair with words is that I actually enjoy etymology.

Here's something interesting I found about the word impeach:

Nothing hobbles a President so much as impeachment, and there is an etymological as well as a procedural reason for this. The word impeach can be traced back through Anglo-Norman empecher to Late Latin impedicare, “to catch, entangle,” from Latin pedica, “fetter for the ankle, snare.” Thus we find that Middle English empechen, the ancestor of our word, means such things as “to cause to get stuck fast,” “hinder or impede,” “interfere with,” and “criticize unfavorably.” A legal sense of empechen is first recorded in 1384. This sense, which had previously developed in Old French, was “to accuse, bring charges against.”

Fun, no?