For the half of you who aren't American University students, today is Fall Break. (I mean this literally: Fall Break is one Friday in October. It's more of a Bruise, really.)

And, for the first time in three years, I honestly could use it.

I'm worn out pretty throughly by now. Why this year, and not the prior two? Well, homework is heavier than it ( Read more... )

We all have a long list of words which we love. "Penultimate" is on there. It's been one of my favs since that Monty Python sketch where Michelangelo, thwarted by the bloody Pope in his attempts to draw an artistically true but factually misguided Last Supper, defended that it could very well have been the Penultimate supper. So, when I learned ( Read more... )

Shockingly, Lemony Snicket chose one of my top fifteen words for his latest alliterative (top five rhetorical concepts) title, The Penultimate Peril. I'll read it when I get to it, but still... Penultimate!

He is a god, although he only has one more year of apotheosis.