Today's Stuff
							SURVEY! our current survey: "The Dostoevsky Challenge": pick out your favorite of Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov's nicknames! a. alexei fyodorovich b. alyosha c. alyoshka d. alyoshenka e. alyoshechka f. alexeichik g. lyosha h. lyoshenka select your choice and email it to me. thanks!
today's favorite color: lime green
today's favorite word: jilt v abandon, betray synonyms: break off, coquette, deceive, desert, disappoint, discard, ditch, drop, dump, forsake, get rid of, leave, leave at the altar, leave flat, reject, throw over today's least favorite word: perfunctory adj automatic, unthinking synonyms: apathetic, careless, cool, cursory, disinterested, going through the motions, heedless, impersonal, inattentive, indifferent, involuntary, lackadaisical, laid-back, mechanical, negligent, offhand, phoning it in, routine, sketchy, slipshod, slovenly, standard, stereotyped, stock, superficial, unaware, unconcerned, uninterested, usual, walking through it, wooden please use jilt in a sentence today. make every effort possible to NOT use perfunctory.
today's favorite person: Frederick Funston- (1865-1917) "the fighting bantam" only 5'5" tall, was a U.S. Army officer. Phillipine Insurrestion: captured Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the revolt against the U.S. rule. Born: New Carlisle, OH and grew up in Kansas. Explored Yukon River via canoe, fought with Cuban rebels against Spain. Colonel of 20th Kansas Regiment of Volunteer Infantry in Spanish American War. 1914, military governor of Verecruz, Mexico during its breif occupation by U.S. Promoted to major general. Wrote Memories of Two Wars (1911). please take a minute of silence to remember this American hero.