Profile : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

Detroit Hoser

Subscriber since: February 2009

Location: MI, United States

About Me

Starting college at age 45 is daunting after being a total failure at it when I was young (and had the time, energy, and financial backing to do it right.) Unfortunately, it wasn't until six months ago that I was diagnosed as having ADD since childhood. Well then, that explained a lot of things. Within an hour of the first dose of prescribed ADD meds, life was entirely different. I was focused and calm and soon developed the confidence to give school one more try. It's still not easy; I struggle with the same issues I had as a kid when it comes to learning and comprehension. But now I have tools to help me focus enough to get what I need in whatever way I need to get it to be successful. So far it's working; the semester is over in three weeks and I lost my first point today on an anatomy exam. I've got a 95% in English Composition currently. Both of these classes vex and frustrate me, but I've got a love/hate relationship going with them -- because I'm acutally doing it. I'm passing!

My Word Lists

Favorite Word:

forsooth

Archaic and unexpected, it's fun when used with a vulgar noun. For instance, I used it at work one night (on a loading dock) and my co-workers looked at me like I'd just sneezed out an alien. I explained it thus: "It's like saying, 'No kidding, man. You got that right, pal.'" I paused, considered the crew with whom I work (9 guys twenty years younger than me, and I'm the token woman on the crew) and said, "You know...'Forsooth, mutherfu**er.'" Now it's the phrase of choice at work.

Least Favorite Word:

moist

It's just...unpleasant somehow.

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Chimene M.
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Cathy C.
Vivian Vamp (Philadelphia, PA)
Mandy P. (IN)
Jeff B. (San Francisco, CA)
amy H. (ny, NY)
Michael D. (Saint Joseph, MI)
Adriane R. (Indianapolis, IN)
pamela V.

Favorite Quote:

"Hello, Auntie Barbara? It's Jackie... Jack-key! Yes. I'm fine... Fine!... I'm fine!... I got some bad news... Dad isn't with us anymore. I said Dad has passed away... He's passed away!... Dad is gone...Dad's dead!... He's dead!... No... DEAD!... DEAD! DEAD!... No, he's fine, he sends his love! [hangs up] I am not doing that again, you can't make me!"

- Laurie Metcalf as "Jackie" in "Roseanne," ep. 113-516. Writer: Amy Sherman-Palladino