It was another long but incredibly productive day. There was some rain overnight, tornados in Dallas, terrible reports of damage (not sure of any injuries). Jody reported we got 0.35" on the Edge of Nowhere. We could use another ten or twelve days of that kind of rain. We were ensconced in a room for most of the day, and will continue tomorrow with planning for the next year. We all wore our Bucee's t-shirts, and we were the talk of the conference center. We were in disguise as Bucee's Management team,. We ended the night with a nice dinner, great conversations and could hardly take a breath between laughs! Fun group, it will be a great year.Ebullient -- Adjective. 1. boiling, agitated. 2. having or showing liveliness and enthusiasm. exuberant. "Keegan, effortlessly ebulliant even on his worst days, is probably the easiest person in the history of civilization to have a conversation with." Jay Martel, The New Yorker, September 9, 2015
Did You Know? Someone who is ebullient is bubbling over with enthusiasm, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that the adjective ebullient derives from the Latin verb ebullire, which means "to bubble out." (The stem bullire is an ancestor of our word boil and derives from bulla, the Latin word for "bubble.") In its earliest known uses in English in the late 1500s, ebullient was used in the sense of "boiling" or "bubbling" that might have described a pot simmering on the stove. Only later did the word's meaning broaden to encompass emotional agitation (particularly of the exuberant kind) in addition to the tempestuous roiling of a boiling liquid.
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