Weird Anglo-Saxon Word Of the Day

[highlyeccentric]

Stræl: 1) arrow, dart, missile: 2) curtain, quilt, matting, bed
-Courtesy of Clark-Hall's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

Three Cheers for the Danes!
For some people, getting up early is unhealthy.
THEY'RE CALLED MANY things - "lazy", "unproductive", "lacking in ambition"- but late risers are starting to fight back. Long the butt of demeaning office jokes, sleepyheads are officially up in arms thanks to a Danish campaign to stop "the tyranny of early risers"...
"We've had tremendous success," agrees B-Society founder Camilla Kring, who has a PhD in work-life balance. "We now have a B-high school, with classes starting at noon. Sweden has its own movement, Finland and Norway should soon follow and there's been huge global interest."
We're way ahead of you here in Sydney, Ms Kring- our Arts Faculty has a long-standing tradition of not operating before 10am.

XKCD amusement for you all: 50 ways to learn to hover
Dear God- I would like to file a bug report
I wish i could use this for Dreams & Visions somehow.

right. now to go and work on my actual D&V essay.

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Weird Phrase of the Day:  While it was previously accepted the maximum bounce for a breast during exercise was 16 cm, Scurr's study found breasts could move up to 21 cm, proving conventional bras were woefully inadequate.

Comments

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

The opening hours of the Faculty here are frustrating. Sometimes you want to hand in an assignment early, and there is no after-hours submission box here. Very, very annoying.

[laiaratoiel.livejournal.com]

There's only one Humanities/Arts course I've known to have a 9am lecture. I have a 10am one this semester, which I keep skipping (though mainly because I'm in the library, trying to finish an essay).

Mmm. High school classes starting at noon would have been great for me.