2019 - Day 58/307 - Wednesday...Tristful...

It was kind of a busy day today, stuff, meetings, hearings on television, hearings on the radio, hearings on the news. Hearings, hearings, hearings. I think I am on hearings overload. Couple that with the fact that it was 80 degrees in central Texas today, and the high temperature tomorrow is going to be 50 degrees, and it is going to rain. Perfect. and next week (Monday and Tuesday) we are supposed to have temperatures below freezing again. Pretty hard freeze, but it should be below freezing for just a few hours. All the spring flora that is already confused may be hit hard. I hate that.

Tristful -- Adjective: sad, melancholy. "I've been dreading the moment when I wake. Waking is a tristful business for the man who reflects." Howard Jacobson, The Independent (London), November 27, 2010

Did You Know? The Middle English word trist, from which tristful is derived, means "sad." Today, we spell this word triste (echoing the spelling of its French ancestor, a descendant of the Latin tristis), whereas tristful has continued to be spelled without the e. Is there a connection between triste ("sad") and tryst ("a secret rendezvous of lovers")? No. Tryst also traces back to a Middle English trist, but it is a different word, a noun that is a synonym of trust. This other trist eventually fell into disuse, but before doing so, it may have given rise to a word for a station at which hunters would convent, which in turn led to tryst.