Word: curmudgeons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...usually use this space to vent whatever frustration happens to be bouncing around my brain—to paraphrase Anna Quindlen, I try to walk the fine line between being pointedly eloquent and being a pain in the butt. But there are times when even a curmudgeon like myself should give credit where credit is due, and so I find myself devoting my 800 words to asking not what went wrong but what went right...
This cowboy-curmudgeon acknowledges he's pleased by the praise for a film he's proud of. "All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination," Jones says, "and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly...
...research showing you can raise your level of happiness. For Seligman and like-minded researchers, that involves working on the three components of happiness--getting more pleasure out of life (which can be done by savoring sensory experiences, although, he warns, "you're never going to make a curmudgeon into a giggly person"), becoming more engaged in what you do and finding ways of making your life feel more meaningful...
...curmudgeon, but I’m sick of talking to people when I have no desire to listen to them speak. The standard script of “My name is X,” “My name is Y,” “Nice to meet you” gets stale, especially during these first weeks of the semester. As a second semester senior, I’ve feigned enough smiles to decorate a dentist’s office and—just like all of you—I’ve said...
...Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. The U.K.'s surprise best seller of the holiday season, Lynne Truss's wonderfully pedantic salvo is sure to warm the hearts of would-be copy editors everywhere. Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English. Another unapologetic linguistic curmudgeon, James Cochrane, skewers offenders who say "could of" instead of "could have" and confuse "amount" - to be used with nouns that have no plural - and "number" - to be used with nouns that can be enumerated...