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Earlier this evening, as I was typing away on my WIP, I noticed a dark lump shuffling around the fishtank. The pleco was out! He meandered over to his algae wafer, but when I slowly stood, he vanished. I'd heard that you can watch them at night with a red light. Well, I don't have a red light bulb yet, but I have a blue one, and I've got it set up in the vain hope that my body's vibrations won't keep the pleco at bay.

Now it goes without saying that blue is not red. In my old room, where I never used only the blue bulb, I never appreciated how close it is to a blacklight. Now, it's turning everything in my room blue, except for the green and orange things. The orange price tag on top of a bottle of mineral water, the green stripes on my toy tarantula's knees, the single word, "Shannara" on my shelf of unread books. Everything else is monochromatic.

EDIT: oh, oh, it's out! Aw, Chelsea just slammed a door and now the dark lump is gone. :-(

So if it was written in Latin it would be clear?

First off, this article about the Church wanting to use more Latin makes me happy. While I'm all about keeping religion accessible to everyone, I like the idea of using a separate language, especially one with such a long history, to put one in a religious mindstate.

But that article has some quirky wording. Pull quote from a photo caption:
"Fr Foster: Using Latin means you have to say something"

My first thought was that they'd messed it up and it should read, "Using Latin means you have something to say." Because in general, just speaking means you have to say something, unless you're a ventriloquist and can speak without saying.

Reading the article reveals the context of the pull quote:
"But Father Reginald Foster, an American priest who is the Pope's official Latinist, praises the virtues and the clarity of the Latin language.
"You have to say something and move on," he says.
"It's not like French and some of these philosophical languages where you can write a whole page and say nothing - in Latin you can't do that!''"

I like my version better.

First Line Meme

I feel like doing the first line(s) meme, because for a brief moment, I'm confident about my writing.
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