BIlly Mays really makes me just want to buy stuff from him…He seems like a nice young man…

I am now checked into my flight…I guess that means I’m really coming home!!!

I was confused the other day that while reading the NYT that the word ‘schadenfreude’ just sort of showed up in the middle of an article. There was no explanation of what the word meant which must mean this is a common conversational word in america now?
In the context of the article my best guess was that it meant something along the lines of wallowing in bad news/self pity, but apparently it means to take joy in other peoples sorrows…
and now from the country that gave americans ‘kindergarten’ and ‘strudel’…it’s schadenfreude…I’ll have to add that to my dictionary…