April 23, 2009

• I was playing scrabble by myself as people lounged around at the speech and debate tournament, and it was about the point where I needed to start considering forming a long, solid word to work as a backbone for the crossword.  I figured I could make the word ‘honeymoon,’ only I didn’t have an ‘m,’ but that was okay because I had a blank I could use for an ‘m.’ 

  Then a little later I picked up the other blank, but then still later I picked up another blank.  There are only supposed to be two blanks in a scrabble set, so something had clearly gone wrong.  I flipped over one blank, and it was blank on the other side.  Then I picked up the blank I had used as an ‘m’ in honeymoon, and it turned out that it was not a blank—it was, in fact, an m!

  I had to take a walk.  I’m still a little shaken.

  In other news, last night I dreamt that I was friends with two sea otters, and they would let me pet their stiff, damp fur, but then one time they came out of the water and said that they had to go away and not be friends with me anymore.  It was very, very sad.

  Also, I remember one other thing I used to think as a kid.  I remember reading quotations of famous people online or in the newspaper, and I thought that these were things that other people had heard them say, and then went and wrote them down.  I thought it was quite remarkable that people could not only say such eloquent things off the top of their head, but that others could remember it exactly, so as to record it accurately.

  Hope you all are doing well.

  P.S. I saw a very cheerful girl give a speech over the weekend who only had three total fingers, and that was very interesting.  Made me feel like having ten fingers is like a super power—how thankful we should be!  What a wonder it is that we have veins and eyes and fingers, all forming who we are every moment.  

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