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title: Definitions
date: '2003-12-02T08:28:03-05:00'
permalink: /definitions/
tags:
    - academia
---

**Anxiety** is a [phone](/on_the_academic_and_the_personal/ "There's a buried reference about halfway down the entry...") that doesn’t ring when it’s [supposed to](/during_the_break/).

**Anticlimactic** is discovering that the message was left on your office voice mail last night.