The longest word I'll ever use

I thought, being an English major during college, that I had come across most of the vocabulary I would need to use in my life. I realized I was wrong when I saw the title of one of my assignments (and heard this word used in other classes, as well): biopsychosocial. Really. I have to write a 10-page biopsychosocial assessment. Apparently, social work has its origins in Germany, because only in German have I seen them use this technique of mashing words together to create one big one.

Also, another discovery: I am more transparent than I thought. During my series of pointless workshops around learning styles and "creating a learning environment" (gag), we had to do one of those icebreakers (never mind that we've all been thrown together for 8 hours a day for the past 2 weeks and don't NEED icebreakers) where you have a list of characteristics (been on a cruise ,speaks French, etc) and have to find people to put in the spaces--several people asked me "you're ambitious, right? " and " you look like one of those people that do their assignments immediately".  While this is certainly true, it was surprising that people i've only known for 2 weeks seemed to be able to discern this--what makes me seem ambitious? 

In conclusion, as it was pouring this morning when I got off the bus and i had to slog through what amounted to a pond that happened to have a brick walkway somewhere underneath it and got sprayed by the water coming off passing Mack trucks and buses, I spent most of the day freezing cold and wet. Now, after taking a hot bath to remedy the freezing, I'm baking chocolate chip cookies to make up for my crappy day. You might want to eat lunch with me tomorrow...I'm just saying.