Yearbook: 1968

Our parents' generations were encouraged to settle down and become adults a lot sooner, in their early 20's. Now we've got our whole 20's and even our 30's to arse around, and nobody is quite sure what to do with it, so all we do is regress back to when we were younger and find the things that we enjoyed doing then. There's this great shift towards nostalgia and looking back... We're now being nostalgic about recent things. As soon as nostalgia catches up with the present, it will be armageddon.

~ Simon Pegg

Things I should not be nostalgic about, lest I tempt fate:

• VHS
• the Kenny Everett Show
• the Spice Girls
• canned chocolate custard
• the smell of summer rain
• sleeping over
  

Winning = awesome

Check it out, we won a digital camera at one of the Monkey's speed dating networking things last night.

Of course we already have a great digital camera but, now we've got two, there won't be any excuse for me not to take lots more shots-about-town.

Stand by for amateurish photos of Melbourne's Victorian and Edwardian architecture.

A flight of fancy often ends in disappointment

bodacious /b'des/

→ adjective
(N. Amer. informal) excellent, admirable, or attractive: bodacious babes.

• (US) audacious in a way considered admirable.
- ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: perhaps a variant of SW dialect boldacious, blend of boldaudacious.

and The Oxford Dictionary of English (revised edition). Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson. Oxford University Press, 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Eastern Regional Libraries. 4 February 2008 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t140.e8312>

I so wanted the etymology of bodacious to have something to do with Boadicea; but, alas, it seems to be somewhat less ancient and deserving of only as much reverence as it gets.

Ho-hum.