Yay, I’ve been waiting for this day! Why? ‘Cause I get to use Wordle. I don’t have any hypotheses for today; rather, I have three main questions of interest.

Question A: how do my “commonly used words” change throughout the years?
Question B: are there some words I use more than others in my blog titles?
Question C: looking at my blog in total, what are my most commonly-used words?

Let’s go!

Question A: Using Wordle’s word counts, here’s a table of my top 10 words for each year (note: Worlde can automatically remove “common” words like the, and, a, etc., so I did that). Words consistently highly used across the years are colored.

(Year 1’s “Andy” is because of a short story I posted. Year 4’s “Hate” is because of grad school.)

Question B:
My top 10 words I use in my titles are:

1. Blog
2. Oh
3. Survey
4. Time
5. Waiter (from all my “Waiter! There’s a…” titles)
6. Claudia
7. Day
8. Just
9. God
10. One

Question C:
Here is a Wordle of my top 100 words spanning all six years!

I would have guessed I’d used the word “blog” a lot more. And my own name less. I use my name in my blog more than “haha” and I’m always dropping “haha”s all over the place! What.

Bonus: here are a few of my common phrases by year. A lot of these are biased because of one blog containing a repeating phrase, but they’re still amusing.

Year 1:

• “Claudia is”
• “Airplane airplane airplane airplane”
• “Who cares about apathy”
• “ag sci computer lab”
• “if you had sex”

Year 2:

• “the socio-adaptive force”
• “who said hello”
• “I can be absolutely fine”
• “go ahead and stir baby” (haha, it took me like twenty minutes to try and figure out why this was a popular phrase; then I remembered it was because of this)
• “the fact that I”

Year 3:

• “wifey wifey wifey wifey”
• “have you ever”
• “best of all possible” (hahaha, this was the year I discovered Leibniz)
• “the mad scientist’s life”
• “the last time you”

Year 4:

• “I hate this” (yup, grad school time)
• “your conversational partner has disconnected” (and Omegle time)
• “approach to environmental ethics”
• “what do you want”
• “today’s song”

Year 5:

• “this week’s science blog”
• “today’s song”
• “you have no idea”
• “for quite some time”
• “all of a sudden”

Year 6:

• “what do you think of”
• “I miss happiness”
• “what would it be”
• “the last time you”
• “sure why not”

Humorous.