kismet09 | Scrabble Starbucks Geekery

I hauled my wordgear out to Starbucks tonight. The OSPD4 (since my OWL2 has yet to arrive), my LeXpert list of top 1000 bingos, and my green word book, whose name I don't actually remember. I'm trying to get through the top 1000 and figuring out which are derived from stems that I think are worth learning, and which are standalone words. I'm also hoping to learn all of the pesky three letter words because it makes me self-conscious not to know them. I can play with people rated in the 1700s and be competitive, until I get to a word that I'm (sometimes irrationally and probably incorrectly) sure the other person knows and I don't know, and then I get flustered. I wish I could get them to stick in my head. There are only 1000. It shouldn't be this hard. Aaaanyway, I scrabblegeeked at Starbucks, over a javachip frappucino, and I know at least some of my students were there, and I was wearing my ratty grey fleece from Miami and jeans, and studying Scrabble. If they didn't think I was a little odd before, they likely do now.