Etymology: the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language.
(Merriam-Webster)
Since the idea for this blog (or rather, for the gimmick for this blog) came from etymonline.com, it seems only appropriate to begin with "etymology" - at the beginning.
The gimmick is this: pick a word that applies to each day I'm having and write about that word and my life.
Etymology traces the origins of and thereby connections in human communication. I had to clean out my locker at the law school today. For some reason (likely because of an incoming class larger than the outgoing - go figure) we now have to move lockers. I'm going in to my 3rd year and haven't had to do it before - sob. I found old outlines and papers - very important words at the time and the origins of my legal knowledge. I'm going to stop the "etymology" motif before it gets out of hand.
My mail folder was the same. What a worthless space that is. Any important announcement will be sent via email and not printed out and stuck in a hanging file folder in the basement. The exception is the announcements they don't actually want to draw attention to - like the two tuition increase FYI letters I found from the past two years. I dumped it all.
A brief word on the url name of the blog. I'm a dork for etymology (among other things), though I also think using Latin when it's unnecessary is a symptom of a bad case of pretension. My excuse here is that a lot of the "word life" or "word a day" combos I tried were taken. And I do kind of have a secret, stalkerish crush on Latin.
