I've been fortunate to visit three countries - Venezuela, England, and Scotland, and there are many more on my dream vacation list. If Chris and I had the money, we would go on a huge overseas vacation! In high school, our combined Orchestra was invited through an International program to visit Venezuela for ten days. Since I played the Oboe and was second chair in the Orchestra, I got to go, and it was a trip I'll never forget. In pairs, we stayed with host families and every day, we traveled to a different high school around Caracas to meet the students and play a short concert. Remind me some day to tell you more about it! After my Senior Year at MSU, I did a five-week Overseas Study program for credit towards my degree in English Lit. I did the Shakespeare program, lived in a dorm at Regent's College in Westminster, saw Ian McKellen do Richard the III at the Royal National Theatre, went to Stratford to see A Comedy of Errors, and discussed Shakespeare with my fellow … [Read more...]
The Longest One-Word Sentence Makes The English Major In Me Very Happy
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." According to William Rappaport, a linguistics professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo (naturally), the word "Buffalo," eight times in a row -- is a legitimate, grammatically valid sentence. Really. Click the above link to go to the page explaining the whole history of how he discovered the sentence. Basically, it works like this: "Buffalo," with a capital "B," refers to the area of Buffalo, New York. "buffalo," with a lower-case "b," can be a noun meaning "bison" or a verb meaning "intimidate" But, as Rappaport and his colleagues kept working on the sentence, they realized that if the style of intimidation called "buffalo" is specific to Buffalo, NY, then it can be referred to as "Buffalo buffalo". Think of it this way - if you dance the waltz that was created for the song The Tennessee Waltz, then you are "Tennessee Waltzing". If you intimidate someone the same way they do in … [Read more...]
Parent’s Choice Infant Formula Savings Sweepstakes
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of PBM Products for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Parent's Choice is Wal-Mart's brand of infant formula that they have been selling for 13 years. It gives parents a way to feed their babies a formula with outstanding nutrition at an affordable price. Now, Parent's Choice is running a sweepstakes that will give one lucky winner a $10,000 college scholarship (in the form of a College Savings 529 Plan account). It's called the Parent’s Choice Infant Formula Savings Sweepstakes and it runs now through 11:59 pm on August 1st 2011. All three of my children were formula fed, and at the time, I didn't know anything at all about store brands. I bought the expensive name brand that had been given to them in the hospital, and I mean expensive. What I didn't know at the time was that by law, ALL infant formula products "must provide the necessary levels of identified nutrients required for the growth of … [Read more...]
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