We just went to Leatherby's, which has very good, albeit large, ice cream sundaes. We had a large serving of french fries to share as well.

If I ever found my own country, I will see to it that in the national cuisine, it will be custom that something warm and salty always follows something cold and sweet. The opposites complement each other perfectly.

Admittedly, the chances of my forming my own country are rather slim, if for no other reason than there's not much land that's unclaimed already. If there is any unclaimed land out there, it's probably because no one in their right minds would want it. Oh well. I would've had a hard time finding enough citizens anyways.

I am working on writing a language, however. I've written an alphabet where each letter represents a different sound (unlike English, where the letter A might have any number of different sounds to go with it, depending on the word). Right now I'm working on memorizing the symbols and translating English alphabet words to my alphabet. Unfortunately, there's no good way for me to represent them on a computer screen. However, my name only has four letters in it: the symbols for H, short E, TH (which is one symbol), and R.

I'm no Tolkien, but hey, it's something.

Every time I stay up really, really late, I promise myself that I won't do it again.

But I always do.

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I had books that needed reading, okay? At least this was a morning that I could sleep in...

I have heard incidents of celebrity parents (I can't remember who, exactly) naming their children such things as Moon Unit and Dweezil. Now, I know some people who have compiled lists of names for future children. I, on the other hand, think that I'll compile a list of names that I will never, under any circumstances use. These are:

1. Hester (the woman in The Scarlet Letter)
2. Nabal (it's from the Bible, yes... but it means 'fool')
3. Wrestling (there was actually a kid on the Mayflower with this name)
4. Christmas (not a bad name in itself, but the various jokes made about it would get old VERY fast)
5. Hapshepsut (this was an Egyptian queen, I think)
6. Gomer (another Biblical name... but I won't cover why I'll never use it here. Look up Hosea if you're curious)
7. Baka (Japanese for 'fool' if memory serves)
8. Jadis (it sounds evil, and with good reason-- Jadis is the name of the White Witch in the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and the former ruler of Charn)
9. Any name longer than twenty letters (can you imagine the kid in first grade, trying to write his full name out?)

That's all I can come up with for now. I might add more later.

This is my first post on my blog. I bet you already guessed that, however.

Anyways, I suppose I should put something interesting up here...

Ah, musings on the Grandfather Paradox.

The Grandfather Paradox is in regards to time travel, namely, if you were to build a time machine and travel into the past to when your grandfather was a boy, and then kill your grandfather, what would happen? A rather morbid sort of thing, but it does raise a few questions. If your grandfather is out of the picture, you yourself would never come into existance. If you did not exist, then you wouldn't be able to go back in time at all, and you would never kill your grandfather, and therefore you would exist, and thus be able to go back in time to kill your grandfather...

This might end up messing up the time/space continuum so much that it explodes from sheer headacheyness. But somehow, I don't think God would let it come to that.

It could be that time travel is inherently impossible due to paradoxes such as this one. But that's not any fun, now is it?

Perhaps your going back in time and killing your grandfather would not cause you to cease to exist, but rather create an alternate timeline, parallel to the 'regular' one in which your grandfather lived long enough to give birth to one of your parents.

Or, if it isn't a parallel timeline, perhaps, although your past/future self (that is, the you that isn't born yet) would never come to exist, your present self (that is, how you are now, having just killed your grandfather) would continue to live on in this new world you've created (and likely face murder charges).

Maybe, even if time travel were possible, you would simply be unable to perform an action that would have such impact on the timeline. As in, picking up a penny might be okay, but killing your grandfather would not work.

Either way, I don't think there'll really be much of a chance to find out. Outside of the ethical concerns, time travel, if possible, is still way far in the future.

But it's still pretty fun to give oneself a headache over it.