Ice Cream Sundae Day/Be A Kid Day
2005-07-08 @ 8:36 p.m.

I've finally worked the first paragraph of my prose piece to my satisfaction. 290 words, and I think I'm way out of my league doing prose. Set myself a personal challenge, which is to incorporate the entire Word of the Day archives of Dictionary.com into my writing, one month per chapter. Contrived? Definitely. Fun? Absolutely. Easy? Hell, no! Picking up my Latin again, because Quenya seems like the sort of thing you do on holiday for a lark, even more impractical than Latin. Sir Winston Churchill once wrote, "I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat." Perhaps I should pick up Greek then, after I've mastered Latin? Chalk one more thing up to know that will impress people later in life, but is almost useless in my current situation. Unless I do a reverse Paris Hilton and snag some shipping tycoon's daughter really soon. By the way, did you know that the opposite of the Oedipus complex is not the Electra complex? It's actually the Jocasta complex. How's that for a factoid picked up from a really cool CSI episode? Somehow the crimes in Las Vegas are always more interesting, to me at least. Call it "the fascination of the abomination". As Grissom put it, "The rich are as deviant as the poor." Anyway, our class pictures turned out okay, especially the informal one where us guys posed to form 2A01A. You can actually make that out if you take a second look at the photograph! I guess it is kind of cool, so the girls were right about that. I've just read Waiting For Godot, and it makes almost no sense. On to the next play...