Wheeeeeeeeee!

[active_apathy]

Wheeeee!

I'm now enrolled to learn most of what I'll ever need to know to be a library technician. Yay me! *points at icon*

The enrolment session was pure mayhem, and I very nearly missed one of the classes that's pre-requisite for almost anything. So, I got special permission to join the class.

At 9am.

On Monday.

I think that means that I really want that bit of paper. :)

And then, once the two years of that are done, it can also count for a year of credit on a degree in library and information science. Wheee!

Next, I went to a bookstore today, and they had Son of a Witch. So, I bought it. *points at icon*

It's now joined my reading queue.

Next, my copy of Serenisquee arrives in SEVEN DAYS! Wheee! *points at icon*

And, lastly, while at the bookstore, I bought the thing I actually went for. I picked the Australian version over the normal Concise Oxford because... well... it was bigger. And heavier. And ever-so-slightly cheaper. And it's pretty much all from the same database of Oxfordness anyway. So, now I have authoritative definitions for 'bogan', 'Canberra bashing', 'budgie smugglers' and 'esky lid'.

Also, I have a sudden desire to randomly look up words.







Whee! *points at icon*

Comments

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

How can the origin be uncertain?

That word very obviously looks to be derived from "bogey" which means bad, and is derived from Boggan/Boggart, a malevolent spirit/goblin/fae.

In fact, bogan appears to be a contraction of boogeyman, which in it's purest form means "bad man"

Which fits the definition given :)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Folk etymologies are fun, but they're not suited to reference works.

There is some suspicion from lexicographers that the word may derive from the area around the Bogan river, but it's not clear and not definite - hence, the dictionary says it's uncertain. :)