Nerd Word of the Day: Weisure
Weisure: n. Free time spent doing work or work-related tasks. A blend of work and leisure.
I’m certainly guilty of a lot of weisure time! I mean, seriously, any free time I have I am on my computer doing something work-related.
How about you? How do you spend your weisure time?
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My former wife used to say that in the government all they do is drink coffee and smoke cigarettes all day long. And when I was landscaping my mom’s backyard in 1993-1994 some government stooge shouted at me in my backyard from across the alley TWO HOURS OF WORK IS A FULL DAYS WORK AT THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE! Some of those safe secure government jobs are almost like social welfare too! They told me at U of Toledo palcement office in an interview in 1983 that they have not had a lay-off at Aberdeen Proving Grounds for over 40 years. That was for a chemical weapons lab like Ivans with the Anthrax letter worked at a germ warfare lab-but he had a PhD. And I was getting my BS in chem.
Is fun with luck “weisure”?
U know…like economics of gamble-ings and “ca-sin.no cult.ure” 
I am a fan of American land.
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I’m usually blogging or on your website.
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The ‘Green armies’ often used green and black colors as well as the combinations of those two.The Green armies, Green Army (Russian: Зелёная Армия), or Greens (Russian: Зелёные) were armed peasant groups which fought against both the Red Army and the White Army in the Russian Civil War. They fought to protect the communities in which they lived from requisitions or reprisals by either side. They were similar to the clubmen which arose during the English Civil War.
Watching my two best buddies (my cats Viktor and Pandora) chase each other around the house, make a mess, climb any & everything taller than themselves and getting blitzed on catnip. Of course I join in on their feline games whenever they let me
.
Do you get blitzed on catnip too?
Actually, I prefer the human version of catnip. But I do try to chase them around, climb and jump over stuff. Just don’t always land on my feet, though!
Hi Marina,
I like the glasses!
I’m requesting a lesson here, I’d like to see you [Rock & Roll].
We would LOVE to know about the Word Origin “Athlete” Have you ever been an Athlete? What sports do you play well at. If you have never been an athlete, what sport would you want to play?
So how come [hard work] comes from Anglo-Saxon, but [easy leisure] comes from French?
Perhaps a consequence of the battle of Hastings?
If one of the most obvious changes following Hastings was the removal of the native anglo-saxon ruling class and the replacing of it by a foreign, French-speaking aristocracy, it also introduced the Anglo-Norman (variant of Old French), as the language of the ruling classes in England. French retained the status of a prestige language for hundreds of years after Hastings. This is why the English dictionary is so impregnated with French words today.
Obviously, nobles have the historical habit to put their peasantry to hard work while they enjoy easy leisure.
Having said this, I think real work is too serious to be shared with leisure. And real leisure is just too fun to be work. Weisure is just a fuzzy state between the real things.
Yes, the French overlords imposed many outrages upon their British subjects.
(Please ignore the coconuts.)
Ah, forget the coconuts, will ya?
What about… pumpkins?
Yeah, you’re right, bananas and coconuts are passé; [pumpkins] are the next big thing!
@Evan
Blimey! This looks like a mightily fierce pumpkin indeed! It seems a little drunk right now though! Let’s wait ’till it sobers up from its leisure time and let’s put it to good work!
Bananas, coconuts, and pumpkins aside, your answer hits the nail on the head. The split between Anglo-Saxon and Norman French in English vocabulary follows the old class divide between A-S peasantry and N-F overlords.
Too bad Wordlover went bananas, I’m sure he’d have an “Angle” on this topic.
Like…if “weisure” is a cross between “work” and “leisure,” then a woman who is French would be a…
(Oops, not PC!) 
Nah. This is nerdic stuff. The rule is slack and doesn’t always apply.
During the Norman conquest, for instance, crosses between women and French were called English.
It is true I tell ya.
thought you would like that
Oh, by all means, yes. Where’s Bob? I’m sure he’d appreciate it, too. CampKohler, too.
A 200-year-old aqueduct near Wrexham has been crowned as one of the heritage “wonders” of the world.…Pontcysyllte aqueduct was added to the list of World Heritage Sites by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).
Diolch am y newyddion o Gymru! (Thanks for the news from Wales!)
i guess I’m guilty of weisuretime too. =P
any free time I have I am on my computer doing something work-related. which is mostly art.
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up on a local radio talk show this morning (WBAL 1090AM
in Baltimore) and the host thought that you were the one
who could answer this.
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I spend my weisure time with pork and beans.
All is well. Thank God.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01380/pomegranate_1380377c.jpg
I’m very glad everything is OK. I hope recovery goes very well, too.
SeesixCM6
Hey Rick, I’m glad all is OK. Nice photo of your bride.
Good news, yes!!
Thank God, yes I will. As a matter of fact, I will stop to do that this very instant.
Done.
BTW, when my sister had her heart surgery, they had her up on her feet the very next day – quite scary.
BTW(2) If they have a little electrical box beside her bed, and it has two little wires leading under the bed covers … DO NOT MESS WITH THE BOX. My brother-in-law and I had been looking at the box for about five minutes or so, fingering different buttons, but (thank God again) we never pressed any buttons. The nurse came in, jumped our shit and told us, “Keep your hands away from that! That is wired to her heart in case we need to re-start it.”
“Oh.”
We said, and gingerly replaced the boxed.
Box Story II:
During the Cold War, an American was staying at a Moscow hotel. He found a metal box under his bed and was sure that it was a listening device of some sort placed there by the KGB. He started taking it apart and heard a loud crash from the room below. The chandelier had fallen to the floor.
One last time, thanks to you all. It’s looking o.k. Better than I’d expected.
Now, I need my Marina/HFW fix. Bad!
I have a home office and pretend to be working. But I am sure some of the stuff I do is pleasing to the Lord. They gots Chrsitian religion programs on Voice of Russia now too!
I think it’s really the best job. If you don’t like your job then why are you doing it? Why not find a job that you enjoy doing? Why work at job that you dislike? You’re just eating away your quality of life and it takes away your happiness. Does really money give you true happiness? Yes is sure helps but at what cost?
Weisure really is good for your quality of life. You are productive and you feel good about it. I’m like Marina. I love to weisure. I can work 16 hours a day and yet feel refreshed. Now that said, one should take some time away from work to re-energize. Remember it’s still work and at times one needs to completely disconnect from work. This give your mind time to unload and open up to new thoughts and ideas. It’s also good for people to socialize. It nourishes the spirit.
Funny, I’m watching Dr. Phil right now and they are talking about quality of life at work and how it stresses parents out to the point to where they get angry at their kids. People are pushing them selfs too far chasing the big American dream to have bigger this and that. Dr. Phil mentions he has never had a car payment. You don’t have the cash for it then you don’t get it. When I bought my boat, I paid cash. It took me 6 months to save up for it. Funny how saving up for something it normally not the American way.
Ever wonder how Dr. Phil spends his weisure time
“the kid is not my son”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4H5S6UkZDk
Do you really think I believe that is how he spends his time? What was the purpose of your link? What do you think we all gained from watching this video? Did you see why he was kicked off? There is a link in the upper corner for the full video. The guy was abusing homeless people. He paid a homeless man to pull out his tooth. Phil did not want to give him any notoriety for the creepy abuse he does.
Gee, relax Captain.
Was merely amused that both shared the same haircut
http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/U4H5S6UkZDk/default.jpg
not until someone explains to me why that dude was invited on there in the first place (meh)
Is the word (doing) [laundry] related to Marxism?…
That’s what I need to do, find some weisure. I have a question about a redneck word, possibly the Redneck Word of the Day….[catawompus], or catawompi for plural. Is that a genuine, honest-to-god word from way back when, or is it a modern word, invented by Yankees to make fun of Crackers? And is it related, at all, to cats?
Most of my time is wiesure time, because I’m trying to break into the new career I just spent 6 years studying toward. Right now my job is finding work, and until the right job comes along, it is ongoing 24-7 except for brief visits with my classmates here on HFW.
[tea party]
I knew a bartender name “Wheeziser,” she had a problem with her nose so when she spoke is always sounded like she was wheezing.
Teacher –
Here is a site that might have more potential for “nerdwords”… Or where good nerdwords can go and play…
http://www.pseudodictionary.com/
I thought Weisure was a band from So-Cal that did “Hash Pipe” and “Beverly Hills”
The closest I get to weisure time is when I build something just for me, or work on a project of my own choosing. I have not gotten to do either of these recently.
“:-) What is work/SLAVES(economic greed) providing services?…a job can be much [bull-shit]
Marina, someone beat you to it. Yesterday I was listening to a radio program and the commentator described the new tendancy in these hard economic times for people to work from home and how they combined business and liesure. He didn’t even complete his sentence before I thought, “Oh, no! Bleisure!” Sure enough, that was the word he explained.
To my ear, bleisure sounds better than weisure, which sounds like it has something to do with weasles. Which will stand the test of time, bleisure or weisure? Or will neither catch on and both will left in the dust like the bones of cows on the old pioneer trails? Maybe you should put these new words in your filing cabinet until it can be learned whether they will be accepted into general use. You have to decide whether it is better to jump on any new thing that comes down the pike (goes through a fish’s digestion system
) and only has 15 minutes of fame, or wait until it becomes permanent part of the language and is therefore worthy of a your —and our—attention.
Hey, Thanks for that!
It’s too [gruesome] to confront that my every waking hour is spent doing ‘work’.
Thinking of it this way is much more [pallatable] and fun!
If you are doing what you love, it’s all good!
Does that answer the question?
I descwibe weisure is the time I have when I’m not chasing those wascally wabbits!
My weisure time is spent sleeping or cutting grass or is it cutting grass and sleeping or sleeping while I am cutting grass. Oh well it’s one or the other.
hello my dear Teacher, I think you have an awesome sense of humour and its just my observation but I think its very similar to the Australian sense of humour I think thats why I appreciate your stuff more than some others. When my father was younger he was a Stevedore (or a wharfie as we call them in Australia) and worked loading grain (wheat and barley) from a local port near where I grew up and maybe two times a year a boat would come from a Russian port; and one of the crewmen from this vessel a man named Yuri would come to my house to visit with my father and mother who had become good friends and he would always bring much vodka and they would sit around telling stories, laughing and getting drunk. My father was a very funny and a very much loved man and I perceived that Russian people from that time had a very good nature and great sense of humour, they were able to laugh at themselves like Australians can. I just wanted to share that with you. Have a great Day dear Teacher.
While growing up in the States; we were taught that Russians were 10 feet tall, bullet proof, and the object of todays quote(George didn’t want to stop at Berlin). More government mind control
During my weisure time, I enjoy weisurely rides on my weisure-cycle. I like to stop and smell the air… lately lilacs take the lead.
Later, I whizz down the hillside with my arms in the air… thinking of how splendid life can be… being free.
You are still a SuperBabe.
SB
Only workaholics are believed to find relaxation in doing some light work related task.
It’s weisure. Weisure time is redundant. (Sry, pet peeve of mine)
Anywhoz, fortunately, my passion is my work. When I am not researching historical material that my teachers assign, I spend a lot of time researching historical material that my teachers have not assigned. I do have a pretty good break from school, now, so all I gotta do is put my 40 in at work. ‘Course, Mrs. Somebody has a big ol’ list I gotta do, bunch o’ house- and yard-work. We are going on an actual vacation next month. First one in 3 or 4 years. Gonna go down and pee in the ocean.
Don’t get any on ya.
Hey b, do they have warm spots in the ocean like in a pool?
I remember one of our neighbors was an in-ground pool maker(when they had to sand blast them), so natch he had one. He kept all of us kids from peeing in his pool by telling us there was a chemical he put in that interacted with the urine to turn the water red! To this day, I don’t know if he was lying or not.
No warm spots there!
Almost show time. Thanks for all the prayers, thoughts, and kind comments. I can’t thank you enough. Ya’ll are very special.
Marina, turn some of that weisure into true leisure, Babe. You’re very special, too.
Always.
And tell somebody you love them.
Why, thank you.
I knew the second I sent that what was coming! Thanks, bsomebody. I really needed that laugh.
You know me, I’m a giver
.
But seriously folks… My sister had open-heart surgery a couple years ago, and she was only 45 or 46. Scared the hell out of all of us, but we prayed a bunch and hugged a bunch. She got through it fine, and is back to her pain-in-the-ass self. We are a very spiritual family, and that helped tremendously. I will continue to keep you, Sharilyn, and all in my prayers.
Peace to you, friend.
Thanks so much, Amigo.
Dear Marina,
I do lots of work and research on my computer so it’s nice to take a break by watching a video or a post from you. You are my only and exclusive source of “weisure” because I try to do lots of research and writing done when I’m on-line.
I’m sorry Farrah Fawcett died after such a long and difficult illness. She had a great life and a fine career and she brought happiness to many (even me). She helped Ryan O’Neal recover his health when he had leukemia, and helped others in many ways. She was beautiful, both inside and out.
I hope you stay with us for a long time, Marina!
Seesixcm6
Keeping busy is easy for me.
Some days I like to put flies in the toilet bowl and weight them down with sheets of toilet paper until they drown.
{don't tell PETA}Blowing bubbles.
And working out.
Learning the origins of words from you! I figure I should be well versed in the art of language soon.
currently; world domination, making billionaires happy, stuff like that.
U R free not to pay taxes!!!
crazy…mikey Jackson is dead—I spend not spending
love work too
…RIP…Farrah Fawcett
King Of Pop & The Queen of Feathered Hair
~ Michael & Farrah will be greatly missed 
Working all the time. Over past 25 years or so, have had “total vacation” under 5 times, maybe (might try and list these times, someday!).
By the way, was this post prompted by @BeKaspar’s tweet: http://twitter.com/BeKaspar/statuses/2332037722 ? I was tempted to reply by commending him on noting the Weisure in your life, but did not get around to doing so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QworF88_tW0
I was just thinking the same band.