use your love of etomology to curb world hunger!!!!

heard of freerice.com?

well, you have now.

so this dude is helping his son study for the SATs and trying to come up with a way to boost his vocabulary skills. his younger son was mocking the whole process, so he made it into a game for both of them.

by a twist of fate, said dude was the mastermind behind poverty.com, a website devoted to educating people about the state of world hunger and national poverty levels.

and he decided to combine the two ideas.

when you go to freerice, you get to play a vocabulary game. it's pretty simple to start off with. you're given a word and four possible meanings/snyonyms. it gets harder as you go, from level one to fifty. pick the wrong one, and nothing much happens. pick the right one, and something wonderful occurs.

the site donates 20 grains of rice through the WFP (world food program) for every word you get right.

20 grains of rice isn't a lot. you could play all day and only donate enough for one meal for one person. but get this: this game is being promoted and used in several schools and colleges around the country. kids are using it to learn and it's one of the most-vistited fk-around-during-work sites. your meal is joining hundreds and thousands of others.

and you're getting smarter too.

it's a win-win.

and it's another good site to go to when you're bored at work

it's a win-win-win.

don't forget the good dose of karma.

win-win-win-win.


go get your win on.
http://www.freerice.com/

alone again, naturally.

*sigh* it just started raining again and i totally forgot my umbrella. i have a ten-minute walk hom from the bus stop. that means i'm going to come home cold and wet, and not have my usual hug to welcome me. (not to mention the mountain of dishes gabe and cassie left behind....) god, i'm spoiled.

once i realized i was going home to an empty apartment, i wasn't as excited about the end of my work day. and if you're not excited about your work day OR the end of it, what does that leave you to get excited about?

i DO have some gifts to wrap. and a couple of netflix movies. gabe made sure to leave ice cream and pie and my favorite cookies. and there's an almost-full bottle of wine in the fridge. maybe i should just spend the week being an evening sweet-toothed, movie-whore wino.

i've never been alone in this apartment. not overnight like this. all of a sudden it seems very ominous...like half of it is missing and the lock and bolt are only just holding on. does that make sense?

there is someone who likes an empty house, and that someone is rico. what a bastard. he was so dispondent while cassie was around. i thought it was because it's been over a week and he's not used to going so long without a cage cleaning. but guess who was all bright-eyed and twitchy-nosed this morning? bounce bounce chinchilla, that's who. well fine. me and rico. just like old times.