Super Swiss Army knife to the rescue

I feel like documenting the instances in which my small, pink Swiss Army knife has come in handy. A gift from my dad, I love it to pieces and it resides on my key chain. As a result, it's with me nearly everywhere I go (except for vacations that require flights. I couldn't bear to lose it in my luggage and I can't exactly waltz blithely onto a plane with a knife, even a small one, in my pocket).

Of course, I can't recall specific dates or instances of usage in the past (except one time in undergrad when I randomly got a glass shard stuck in my palm waiting for my class to meet at Spurlock and used the tweezers to extract it.) From now on, more specific documentation!

June 4, 2009: Used the knife's screwdriver tool to open many compartments of a friend's iMac in order to extract the hard drive. Did not complete the extraction with the screwdriver attachment, but it went a long way towards accomplishing this, considering relative lack of appropriately-headed screwdrivers (are star-headed screws new?).

June 11, 2009: Approached by boyfriend's former lab boss who inquired if we had any sharp implements with either of us for the purpose of unthreadifying his blazer. My scissor attachment was chipperly produced and the offending thread perched on his shoulder was removed so that the prof, newly natty, could enjoy an important dinner with wife et. al.

Grad school vocab

one more grad school word, that I've looked up a bunch of times before but always forget:

hermeneutic: interpretive, explanatory, to make clear

I want a girl with a short skirt and a grad school vocab

So, this week, I learned three words. The first two were dropped in class and one was in my readings. The neat thing about classroom technology: I could bring up dictionary.com right there and then and discover what the words meant. Pretty cool.

Didactic: 1. intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry. 2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.

Hagiography: a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)

Reify: to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.