I’m going to come up with 26 topics of conversation, one for each letter of the alphabet. Or at least I’m going to try.

A. Nari was introducing various WOFS members to a newbie. This is how she described me: “erm….lets just say she always has something to argue about….”. Do I come off as being that stubborn? Sure, I like to complain about stuff, but everyone likes to complain about things! It’s a fact of life! I actually think of myself as someone who doesn’t pick as many fights, even. Curious.

B. Tanja is my hero

C. Today was not a good day. Elizabeth didn’t bring the tapes for my video, even though I never told her to, so I couldn’t work on it during my free period. It would have given me satisfaction to have some reason to be mad at someone else, but because it’s my fault, I have no one to shift the blame to. Great. In Photography, or “Bookbinding”, I should say, I spent decades on my cover boards, then realized that one was a 1/4 inch larger than the other. I had to make another. Then I got all these weird markings on the board from the graph paper I was using as a barrier between the glue and the table, because everyone else used up all the wax paper. Then things just kept going wrong. I had all my stuff strewn everywhere when the bell rang, and my carpool was ready to kill me when I finally got back to the car.

D. Today was a good day. I signed up for Quiz Bowl for next year, which seems like it would be a lot of fun. I got to play my “Abbey Road” CD during photography. In carpool, Paulette’s mom brought us these huge Drumstick things. Chocolate and vanilla ice cream and nuts and … ::drools:: I worked on my Bio exam, got frustrated, went downstairs for comfort food, and ended up staying down there and eating watermellon and watching “Being John Malkovitch” with Steven and Larissa. Yay!

E. Orson Scott Card irritates me. Why did Ender have to be 30 in “Speaker for the Dead”? Why did the story have to center on these stupid creatures that speak Portugese? Why doesn’t he allow fanfiction? Why can’t I get into “Shadow of the Hegemon”?

F. My neck itches

G. I wonder why people are so unoriginal. I pose a series of clever alternatives to “British English” and the favourite is “British”. Just “British”. Not Britainese or Britglish or Anglish. Just British. How dull.

H. I got the new issue of Star Wars Insider today. It’s yayfun. I’ve only flipped through it now. I haven’t read any of the articles yet, with the possible exception of the 2-1B collumn. I absolutely love that column.

I. 2-1B has inspired me. I want to start an advice column! Send your burning, pressing questions to me. Then I can be witty in my response.

J. Have you hugged a wombat today?

K. Tanja is still my hero. I just wanted to make that clear.

L. The senior section of the Fourcast (the school newspaper) came out today. Nancy named me “Jets Night Out” planner. Erin left me a knowledge of useless trivia, with the reminder that I owe her $10 from our bet on who has the worst poetry in the galaxy. No one else mentioned me.

M. Wow. I’m more than halfway through. That’s rather impressive, If I do say so myself.

N. Malkovitch? Malkovitch. MALKOVITCH!!!

O. I hope Tanja can come to England. That would rock. I’m going to Cambridge this summer, and we want to conspire to meet.

P. Elmo from RML likes “Save Ferris”, too! He’s nifty. I need to get the new CD.

Q. Does anyone have a list of Terry Pratchett books? I’m too lazy to look. I’m blazing through Feet of Clay, and I want to know which are his best. And which ones have Rincewind or the three witches. Vimes is boring.

R. Today was my half birthday. Go me.

S. Blog!Voices and BlogSpot are down. That’s why I can’t read my comments, and that’s why Tanja’s blog has been down. How annoying. Tanja, why don’t you upload your blog onto swussian.com? ::sighs::

T. T is a nice letter. What starts with “T”? Oy. The first words to come into my head were “turtle” and “tuberculosis”. I wonder if this has any profound effect on my subconscious.

U. I never have been able to spell “subconscious”. And I’m too lazy to use MS Word’s spell check.

V. The word of the day is “condensed”. I say this because I have a can of “Campbell’s condensed Chicken Noodle Soup” sitting on my desk. It not has 20% more chicken. I’m using the can as a pencil holder. It’s stylish. Actually, it’s not. Still, find some reason to use the word “condensed” tomorrow.

W. Speaking of W, when does “That’s My Bush” come on? I’d like to watch it some time. It sounds hilarious.

X. The X Files. Oy. I didn’t watch the season finale, but I’ve heard about it from various friends. I can’t believe they would actually kill of Krycek! Jerks.

Y. Why do I keep getting the urge to curse in my blog? It’s not like me to use profanity. It’s just so much easier to get words out on the screen without trying to filter out language. I guess I avoid profanity in order to really think about what I want to say. Plus, I don’t want to offend anyone with my language. I always think it’s so obnoxious to hear/read people curse. ::goes off to ponder::

Z. Wow. The last letter. My eyes hurt. I’m going to sleep. Wait! No! I don’t want to go to sleep! I have to stay online until Tanja wakes up so that I can thank her for such a lovely picture! ::squeals:: I printed it out and posted it next to Ann’s picture of a communist Sailor Scout. It’s so amusing…

Well, that’s the alphabet list. I strongly encourage other bloggers to test out this tactic. It’s rather stress-relieving.