They Got the Mustard Out

• Yesterday I sipped avocado cream soup. I had never heard of such a thing. It wasn't as bad as you would think, but there is a reason people just don't go around sipping avocado soup all day. I won't be sipping it again.



• Someone showed this to me ages ago, and I just rediscovered it:

• Real Quidditch pic with article:

Muggle Quidditch, a game based loosely on the magical Quidditch found in J. K.
Rowling's Harry Potter series, has been gaining ground inschools. So much so, in
fact, that as one Middlebury student put it, “It dominates campus –now it’s just
cool, not nerdy.” There are over 60 differentcollegeMuggle Quidditch teams
within the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association,according to the article by IDS
News. To help further spread the sport tomore collegecampuses across the United
States, 25 Middlebury students will travel acrossthecountry from March 22 to
March 30 to play scrimmages and/or matches atAmherst,Bard, Columbia, Dartmouth,
University ofPennsylvania, Princeton,Vassar, andWesleyan. MTV plans to be
presentfor the University of Pennsylvania match and,potentially, the Princeton
match as well, recording footage for a special about"alternative spring break
excursions".“I am really excited for them to come,"said Alexander Benepe, a
Middlebury College junior, "but it definitely puts pressure on us to deliver an
incredibly awesome spectacle."

• Here is one of my new favorite things, Minuscule (or Miniscule in English):

For my own clarification, I looked up some definitions. I share now. By the way, which of the below definitions fits this sentence: "The differences among these definitions are clear as mud"?

• Allegory: A story that has a deeper or more general meaning in addition to its surface meaning. Allegories are composed of several symbols or metaphors. For example, in The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, the character named Christian struggles to escape from a bog or swamp. The story of his difficulty is a symbol of the difficulty of leading a good life in the “bog” of this world. The “bog” is a metaphor or symbol of life's hardships and distractions. Similarly, when Christian loses a heavy pack that he has been carrying on his back, this symbolizes his freedom from the weight of sin that he has been carrying


• Metaphor: a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity


• Analogy: A comparison of two different things that are alike in some way (see metaphor and simile). An analogy attributed to Samuel Johnson is: “Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”


• Simile: A common figure of speech that explicitly compares two things usually considered different. Most similes are introduced by like or as: “The realization hit me like a bucket of cold water.”


• Symbol: A conventional, printed or written figure used to represent an operation, element, quantity, relation, unit of measurement, phenomenon, or descriptor. Also called sign.

And finally a clip from one of my favorite TV shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: