Happy New Year! What? It’s mid-February? So I guess it’s been a while since I’ve updated this. What’s two months in the scheme of life, anyway? A lot when considering that this blog has only been in existence for a grand total of four.
At any rate, I’ve come to the sobering conclusion that as my schedule continually changes, it becomes increasingly more difficult to post every day, or even once a month. So, to ensure that I post at least once a week, I’ve curtailed this feature to “Word of the Week”, and further elected to begin at the cheerfully arbitrary number of 45 so as to appear as though I have a little more “blogosphere cred”, nahmean? No? Hmm. Anyway, without further adieu, your “Word of the Week”:
Vicissitude
Main Entry: vi·cis·si·tude
Pronunciation: \və-ˈsi-sə-ˌtüd, vī-, -ˌtyüd\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French, from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim in turn, from vicis change, alternation — more at week
Date: circa 1576
1 a : the quality or state of being changeable : mutability b : natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs
2 a : a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition <the vicissitudes of daily life> b : a difficulty or hardship attendant on a way of life, a career, or a course of action and usually beyond one’s control c : alternating change : succession
Synonym(s): lifechangedness
Antonym(s): “Case of the Mondays”
Used in a Restaurant Name: International House of Vicissitude Pancakes
Used in a Sentence: As the bailiff dragged Megan away, she couldn’t help but to think to herself, “How did I get myself into this mess, anyway?” Then it struck her: when she came to, she realized how grateful she was that this kind, off-duty bailiff was to pull her out of the collapsing paintball factory, and how unfortunate it was that yet another one of life’s vicissitudes has led the author to write such a strange, disjointed example. Touche, Megan. Touche.

Another fine mess life has gotten her into...