Word of the day and catching up, in more ways than one.

First, let me just say that even though I did not post Wednesday or Thursday, I did learn my new word for Thursday, and I used both it and Wednesday's word five times. However, I don't remember exactly how I used them... I'll post what I do remember, and both Wednesday and today's words now...

Tuesday: bete noire

I remember that during a conversation with my mother trying to encourage her to g back to school I conceded that classes were her "bete noire", but that she ought to try to overcome that. I also remember that when explaining to Virginia why I didn't want to go with her to pick up her husband from their store, I mentioned that malls were one of my bete noires. I don't remember the other ways in which I used them.

Wednesday:

Ubiquitous: adjective. existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent. "Tearing his eyes away from the scene before him just in time to see a fair-haired man disappear into one of the back rooms with a man dressed in form-fitting black leather, Harry wished he were ubiqitous." In The Dark Knight by Minxie.

This one started with my friend Jade. This is one of her favorite words, and I can understand why. It has an appealing sound and is much better than merely saying omnipresent- which was always one of my favorite words to begin with. She brought it up to me on the phone while we were discussing this week's challenge, and I promised her I would use it this week. Then things just got more interesting when I saw the previous quote in a fanfiction I was reading. Learn something new, and you'll see it all over the place, I swear.

I do remember two of the five ways I used this word. One was to Virginia. While she was complaining about what her son got p to at school, I shrugged and told her, "It can't be helped- you're not ubiquitous after all." I then had to explain what ubiquitous meant to her, so I also spread the learning with that one! The other instance was during a theological conversation with someone in Babies-R-Us whom I had never spoken to before. That was also a new, fun, and challenging experience. ^_^

Thursday:
Agglomeration: noun. (1) The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. (2) A jumbled cluster or mass of usually varied elements. "This blog is really just an agglomeration of random ideas- much like Swanky's brain."

So, I shall use agglomeration at least five times today, and I will try to get both meanings in, as well!

I should be able to post again tomorrow, but I am not positive. My father is going in to the hospital tomorrow morning to have his gallbladder removed. I will be bringing my laptop with me, and if the allow me to use it and have Wi-Fi, then I should be able to post while I am waiting fr him to come to recovery. I make no promises, however, I will try.

Now that I have gotten caught up with my Something New Challenge I can explain the other way in which I have been "catching up" this week.

For a while now I have been increasingly withdrawn. It is a problem that I have, after a certain amount of time of engaging in social interaction daily, I end up not interacting with anyone. At all. I don't like this about myself, and it has become a large problem that is interfering with m life, so I am trying to change it. When I woke up the other morning, I realized that I haven't been doing a very good job with this, so, I've been focusing on it. This is why I haven't updated. I was on the phone nearly all day on Wednesday, and yesterday I spent the day with Virginia and then the evening chatting with my father. I only just got my first moment to myself in the past two days, and here I am.

It is interesting to examine the past two days. I didn't want to talk to anyone, but I forced myself to. I think the week and a half break that I had from having to deal with anyone helped me to be able to force this upon myself at all, since I had to drop my classes because I had been unable to d exactly that. But I also think that being able to hand pick who I was going to interact with helped. Either way, I have to say I feel a little better now. Not because of the actual interaction, but because I fee like I accomplished something. I forced m self through four panic attacks in the past two days, and still, I didn't crawl back to my room to hide. I did something that will hopefully have a beneficial outcome for me, despite a great desire not to. That I am proud f, and it makes me feel a little better to know that I can still win in life, no matter how small the victory.

So, I hope to be able to update every weekday, but understand that if I do not there is good change that I am out there fighting the good fight once again, and keep your fingers crossed that I come out alive and not in a straight jacket!

~Swanky