{"id":1140,"date":"2007-04-13T13:51:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T20:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2020-08-22T13:52:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:52:28","slug":"word-of-the-day-sereptusnigrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/word-of-the-day-sereptusnigrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day? Sereptusnigrate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dreams are funny things. Mine seem to hit me between 4:00 am and 8:30 am. In fact, I have dreamed\u00a0weeks<\/em>\u00a0of things that I know for a fact must have hit my brain between 7:00 am and 7:30 am. I know this because if I lift my head I can see the clock on the DVR. I couldn’t tell you the details of the dream because I forget them shortly after getting out of bed. Apparently most people do. Anyway, a few days ago I had an unusual dream that I do remember for reasons that will become clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was sitting at the kitchen table reading the paper. A headline caught my eye. I read the first paragraph of text below it: “Attorney General Gonzales said today in his usual ############ fashion, that he was…” I stopped reading. What they heck was that word? I didn’t understand what was written clearly in front of me. I spelled it out, letter by letter, building up the syllables: S-E-R-E-P-T-U-S-N-I-G-R-A-T-E. Sereptusnigrate?<\/em><\/p>

“What does ‘Sereptusnigrate’ mean?” I wondered aloud.<\/em><\/p>

At that moment, Josh’s friend Kevin was walking out the back of the house with a text book to study for an exam.<\/em><\/p>

“It means, ‘Self-aware’,” he said over his shoulder as he closed the door.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

WTF? I woke up. It was 7:00 am. I stumbled out of bed and went to find my early-to-rise wife.\u00a0This means something… this is important<\/a><\/em>\u00a0I thought to myself. I found L in her office, working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I grabbed a pen and a piece of paper and scrawled the letters out. “What does this word mean? Google it,” I told her, incoherently explaining that I’d dreamed something weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google told us that the word did not match any documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I returned to bed, and back to sleep. I can not tell you what I dreamed but I’m pretty sure it was something unrelated. When I woke up properly, I could not have told you what the word had been. I only know it now because I asked L to find the paper I’d written on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does this mean? Hey, I don’t claim to interpret dreams. I got nothing. The AG is an asshole though, so maybe that has something to do with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dreams are funny things. Mine seem to hit me between 4:00 am and 8:30 am. In fact, I have dreamed\u00a0weeks\u00a0of things that I know for a fact must have hit my brain between 7:00 am and 7:30 am. I know this because if I lift my head I can see the clock on the DVR. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}