Everyone else can work in lists at this time of year so I will too. Television has become a catalogue of itself, newspapers are just listing the bloody news that happened last year or occasionally listing what might happen next year and don't think making it all into a quiz means we can't see that you've just made another bloody list. And I am sick (which is all my own doing) so any list will do. (For discussion of the better known 'any dream will do' I direct you here.)


List

I have been painting my house.

Gloss paint is quite annoying and toxic but is a little like the past. If you just leave it all the gaps and irregularities sort of even themselves out until there is a nice shiny mass that is fine and nothing to worry about.

The government has become very confused about the two words 'academic' and 'vocational'.

Paying money to people who have so much money that your money will mean absolutely nothing to them is nauseating. Realising that this is what you do with your money all the time does not help.

Nauseating is a very strange word that, if looked at slightly askance, might mean something like having common sense for lunch.

The Latin for sick is aeger, aegra, aegrum.

A better use of aegra can be seen on Line 143, Book 14 of Ovid's Metamorphoses (English translation). I feel a little like the Sybil today as it is 2007 and thus I must be older and I also feel sick.

That is, I feel sick and am therefore miserable as is the Sybil. I know the Latin does not say that she feels sick.

Although she does in a sense as she is old and her senectus is aegra and thus she is feeling pretty sick.

Felix sit annus novus.