Reading Dictionaries

In case you haven't noticed, I haven't done anything substantial apart from playing LoL for the past week. I don't think I blogged much at all, either. My friend alerted me last night to the fact that we've played at least 6 hours on a Wednesday evening. Funny thing is, that didn't even sound like much to me. I remember back in year 10, where I'd get home at 3.30pm, and play until 12am with roughly an hour in between where I ate dinner and showered. That pretty much went on the entire year.

Anyway, my gaming history aside, I've recently bought this medical dictionary because- well- it's a good dictionary, but mostly because it was on sale and shipping was free and I was like WOAH 20 BUCKS FOR A HARD COVER MEDICAL DICTIONARY I'M BUYING THAT SHIT. So I bought it, and then I remembered that I'd never want to consult a medical dictionary if I have internet access- after all, I can type much faster than I can flip through a dictionary.

Normally at this stage I just put my dictionary away and come to terms with the fact that I'm a sucker for consumerism and I bought something I didn't really need. This time, however, I decided I'd try to be one of those "legends" out there who read the dictionary and became super-successful. Like that Chinese guy who memorised the whole English dictionary, and started a business which taught English to Chinese students. Apparently he's now super-rich and everyone's like wow you know more words of the English language than a native speaker.

Anyway, I was going to do that with my medical dictionary, and sadly I must say that I am not "legendary" material. People have always told me that those I admire are not "smart", they simply work harder than I do. Now I just comfort myself by saying, "I'm a smart cookie. I don't need to work hard" when I fuck up my own plans to study by playing too much LoL.

Well it's not like I opened my dictionary and flipped it shut right away. I did read, starting from "A". Then I got bored at about "ascites"--- and I don't remember what "ascites" mean or whether it's even a word, and I flipped to "sex". Because come on, what else would you look up in a dictionary. I felt like I was 13 all over again. It's not like I didn't know what sex was back when I was 13, but there's just something about looking up the word "sex" in the dictionary, and all the terms related to sex.

And yeah, that's pretty much what I did as bed time reading. I read about sex in the dictionary.