A sign of impending geekdom...

[keilexandra]

I am much entertained by browsing the dictionary. Did you know Viagra was coined before Google? Online dictionary/thesaurus searches are invaluable when I'm writing, but for pure language adoration, nothing beats a good college dictionary.

A friend of laitma's once compared abandoned stories to aborted babies (also, I believe, a lack of plot to missing one eye). Apt, if colorful.