Some days, I think about things that I might like to have happen in my future. Today was one of those days. After browsing through the carts of free books they have at the school library, I wandered back to my dorm room with a copy of A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (copyright 1970).

I opened it up, and saw this:


Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a dictionary with a dedication to you in it? Especially one as nice as "Lover of lovely things in art and literature Devotee to knowledge and true friend"


Then, just for fun, I looked up my name in it:

See also:


Also, I'd really like to become a published academic, that way, I can make up all sorts of lovely words, and not be told I'm wrong. Cooccurring? Really? There are three sets of repeating letters in that word! (This one is not from my new dictionary, instead it's from my linguistic anthropology book, it's really quite exciting.)