Words for the Nerds

Oh, dear imaginary readers, it’s been a while since my last post. I have been keeping busy, but with more time-consuming projects. A couple of months ago, I was at my university’s library when I caught glimpse of a needlepoint book on the Recyclomedia shelf, a dandy little “take one, leave one” book operation.

Thus, for the past month or so I’ve been needlepointing a pillow whose pattern was found in said book, loop by loop until its finish.

Speaking of libraries, dreams really do come true: I now work in one. Albeit it’s the same department in which I’ve worked for almost two years now, we’ve relocated to the reference desk area. My most important duty has become giving a beauty queen wave when tours of the college are given. There are about six a day now that the annual collegiate transformation is near.

Another task that’s been keeping me occupied has been reading An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, which is the true inspiration for this post. See, I am and always will be a word nerd. I used to subscribe to Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day until I felt the choices were becoming elementary. I often mashed together interesting words for articles, poems (hah!), and any other piece of written work for fun—that is, until I realized that was a cryptic nuisance amusing only to the author. I suppose I had to learn my lesson somehow.

As such, this book is terribly exciting to me. It just so happens that the boyfriend is a fellow word nerd, which leads to many communal evening book readings dispersed with the occasional, “Susurrus!” One of us will either know what the uttered word means or look it up. Either way, it adds to our word banks. Oh, how terribly dorky.

I’ve plowed my way through about 70 percent of this book, so I won’t give away any secrets, nor will I hint at a premature review. I’m still unraveling the mystery. For the word nerd network, however, I’m set on presenting a preview of all the glory.

Enjoy, word nerds. Enjoy.

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