This is the apology/long post. It'll never happen again.

I would like to begin by apologizing to everyone who so loyally turns to my posts to learn enhanced English.  That's right, I have not posted in over a week.  The Earth, however, is still rotating on its axis.  What I plan on doing to make up for this unforgivable blunder is to post all of the words I've missed over the past week and a half, and write you a little story using all of those words.  I swear I'll never do this to you guys again.

tranche \trahnch, trahnsh\, noun:

1. any part, division, or installment: We've hired the first tranche of researchers.
2. Finance. a. one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment: The loan will be repaid in three tranches. b. a group of securities that share a certain characteristic and form part of a larger offering: The second tranche of the bond issue has a five-year maturity.

verb:
1. Finance. to divide into parts: tranched debt; A credit portfolio can be tranched into a variety of components that are then further subdivided.

pharaonic \fair-ey-ON-ik, far-\, adjective:

1. (usually lowercase) impressively or overwhelmingly large, luxurious, etc.: a construction project of pharaonic proportions.
2. (sometimes lowercase) of or like a Pharaoh: living in Pharaonic splendor.
3. (lowercase) cruelly oppressive; tyrannical: pharaonic tax laws.

swivet \SWIV-it\, noun:

a state of nervous excitement, haste, or anxiety; flutter: I was in such a swivet that I could hardly speak.

gaumless \GAWM-lis\, adjective:

lacking in vitality or intelligence; stupid, dull, or clumsy.

impawn \im-PAWN\, verb:

1. to put in pawn; pledge.
2. to put in pawn; pledge.

ha-ha \HAH-hah\, noun:

sunk fence.

splenetic \spli-NET-ik\, adjective:

1. irritable; peevish; spiteful.
2. of the spleen; splenic.
3. Obsolete. affected with, characterized by, or tending to produce melancholy.

noun:
1. a splenetic person.

aperture \AP-er-cher\, noun:

1. an opening, as a hole, slit, crack, gap, etc.
2. Also called aperture stop. Optics. an opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of light that can enter an optical instrument.

ingratiate \in-GREY-shee-eyt\, verb:

to establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others, especially by deliberate effort (usually followed by with): He ingratiated himself with all the guests.

The story that I'm about to tell you is absolutely true, and it's one of the reasons why I haven't written all week.  I am currently in a class called COM117, and it's a multimedia storytelling class where all of the work I turn in is related to some kind of project.  And by project I mean video project where you're in a group and film and edit things together.

I am in a group with two other people--a guy and a girl-- and our tranche just completed a project about a man here in Syracuse who gives food to the homeless.  For those of you who have never been to Syracuse (the city not the university), it's a rather pharaoinic city, large, with a substantial homless population.  My group and I were lucky enough to find this man who does this wonderful thing, and ride in his car for a few hours, filming as he gave sandwiches he made to the less-fortunate.  It was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.

I was in a bit of a swivet that day, partly because I was excited to get on this project, and partly because I got to skip French class.  I considered it quite the adventure.  The three of us got to ride in his car with us as we drove around the city on his route, stopping anywhere we found someone holding a cardboard sign off the freeway or just sitting amongst a pile of junk.  Although we didn't go near a lot of the homeless people (because they were strangers to him as well, and cameras can make people on the streets nervous), I really felt like I got to know their stories. 

A real eye-opener from that day that I will never forget was when he took us to an abandoned camp site where four homeless people used to live.  It was in a patch of forestry just off the 81 freeway.  There was trash everywhere, and a well-constructed shack in the midst of it all.  Sure it was dirty and disorganized, but I realized that it was a sturdy complex.  This was not built by the lazy, gaumless, drug addicts we as a society picture most homeless people to be.  This was simply their way of life.  It was not an ideal situation for them, obviously, but it was how they got by.  It was enlightening.

It was through this experience, however, that I impawned to myself that I would never like to be homeless.  That's an obvious life goal for the great majority of us, but it runs deeper than that.  I promise that I will never let life become too much to put a roof over my head.  I promise never to become a splenetic, ungrateful person who has to live life in the aperture of the Earth, or put up a ha-ha (whatever that is) to create a home.  After my experience seeing the homeless of Syracuse, I think that we should all ingratiate with one another.  Talk to each other, see each other.  One of the first things he always says to the people he meets is, "I just want you to know that I see you, and God sees you."

I don't think it matters how religious you are.  That's a beautiful way to see somebody.