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US Holidays 2012

From the Office of Personnel Management website, here is a list of the 2012 holidays, so you can start planning your weekend trips and study breaks! Don’t forget to check with your employer or school to see which days you will actually have off.

Monday, January 2*	New Year’s Day
Monday, January 16	Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 20**	Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 28	Memorial Day
Wednesday, July 4	Independence Day
Monday, September 3	Labor Day
Monday, October 8	Columbus Day
Monday, November 12***	Veterans Day
Thursday, November 22	Thanksgiving Day
Tuesday, December 25	Christmas Day

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“Auld Lang Syne” Lyrics

Happy New Year!

“Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.”

Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne

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Study Break: Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

When you’re talking about the activities you see people doing in this video, use the gerund form. Using the gerund (-ing) form of a verb actually makes it a noun – but only if it is in the subject or object position in a sentence. It turns “I am surfing” (am surfing – present participle in the present continuous tense) into “Surfing is fun” (surfing – gerund, the subject of the sentence).

What other activities can you identify in this video? Whether they are gerunds or verbs will depend on the sentence positioning.

playing on the beach
taking a tour bus
sightseeing
playing soccer
driving a moped
shopping
meeting people
swimming with seals and penguins
hang gliding
rock climbing
rappelling

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Study Break: Homeward Bound – Simon & Garfunkel

If you listen to the lyrics very closely, you might notice that the use of the subjunctive is incorrect. If you were irritated that they said “was” instead of “were”, you’re might have missed the point of the song.

Let this be a reminder that in creative writing, or creative anything, you might lose some of the beauty, aesthetic, or passion if you focus too much on perfecting or correcting what was meant to be malleable.

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