Although dictionary.com says that "ironical" is, in fact, a legitimate word, I am strongly against its usage. Purely because it sounds effing terrible.

So anyone who insists on saying ironical in lieu of ironic should eat a dick. PROFESSOR.

The other night, after having dinner with my family and my boyfriend (which was a rather ridiculous ordeal stemming almost entirely from my mother's inherent, though mostly endearing but sometimes like this time really effing frustrating, nuttiness), we were making our way home in my brother's Volkswagen. It was a pretty standard affair with three of us crammed and huddled in the backseat in our big winter coats, like a bag of marshmallows. And then when you open the bag there are a bunch of marshmallows that are kind of sad looking and squished and misshapen?

Anyway, so we were crammed in the backseat and I noticed a sign out of the corner of my eye. It seemed pretty mundane at first, until I realized the letters were rearranged. You know, typical sign graffiti fare. It read:

FREE HAT WITH
NAD         S

Just like that.

The important part of this story, you see, is that I laughed for like 7 minutes. I'VE BEEN BLESSED WITH ETERNAL YOUTH! I'm still 12 years old!! Someone call someone or something!

It surprises me, everytime. Everytime I do not finish an assignment at a reasonable hour. Not because I am so diligent, but because I am so rarely diligent and you'd think I'd have learned by now. Shouldn't University have at least taught me that much?

At the same time, I know that I enjoy these late nights. My fingers shuffle-step their way across my keyboard, slowly but surely tap-dancing toward an average to above-average paper, my eyes feeling kind of drunken and woozy, and I'll listen to the traffic that's still shushing by at 3am. Sometimes I'll look up for 5 minutes or so, just looking out across the street to the apartment with a spattering of lit-up bedrooms. Kind of like a smattering of stars in the night sky, I guess, if we want to compare yet another thing to the night sky. I'll look over there and feel happy that there are other people awake right now, probably just watching late-night television with terrible hosts and commercials about telephone dating, and feel happy that they're there probably wondering, like me,

what am i doing.