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New Words

It feels like New Years was only yesterday. After the marathon that is christmas to New years, including the weekend session of sledding , building snow-slimes , christmas-tree bonfires, drinking, Apples-to-Apples and poorly performed karaoke ... ...after all of that (there is a lot more of that here ), I began a 7-day, all-out, cram for the Series 7 License Exam . Like so many other situations where I had been asked to learn 800-1000 pages of material, I diligently worked for about 30 minutes a day up until the last week before finals and only then took refuge in the library, this exam truly tortured me, because you see, I have no library here. I now study in a home that contains 3 dogs (sometimes more, if you count the other miscreant-neighbor dogs), 2 cats (one of whom is in heat, and the other, a male) who are constantly cooing at me, or roaring at me (depending on the gender), and several delinquent Roomba robots who are constantly going off and upsetting some larger robot and