The inexplicable tiredness strikes again. It's been on me pretty much all day. Hopefully tomorrow will be free of its deadly influence.

Now, sleep time

Banned Word of the Day: meal

Too tired to write much tonight.

I shouldn't be tired, I had a goodish amount of sleep last night and it's relatively early, yet I'm tired all the same. I hoping I'm not coming down with something...

Friday's Banned Word of the Day: snow

There's quite a bit of it around so it'll be interesting to see if I can not mention it.

I came to a realization today while watching some good ol' 60s Spiderman. I don't just enjoy the show (as well as the live-action 60s Batman TV show) because of the high level of camp value; there's another level to my enjoyment. Both Spiderman and Batman are true super-heroes.

Your modern super-heroes have lots of cool powers and abilities and certainly qualify as super-heroes too but not in the same way that Spiderman and Batman (whenever I say Spiderman and Batman, know that I refer to the 60s incarnations, not the more modern ones) do. These two heroes are paragons of virtue, with a such a high ethical code that no real person could ever possibly live up to them.

Spiderman gives up a huge portion of his life fighting crime. He gets no thanks for this, and in fact is often thought of as a criminal. His boss is always ranting about what a criminal Spiderman is even when Spiderman has just saved the city from some evil villian or other. You'd think Spiderman would harbor some resentment to people who were ungrateful of the great personal risks he went through for the good of others, but no, he's perfectly happy having people convinced he's not really a super-hero. In fact, he often laughs when his boss starts going off on a rant about the evils of Spiderman.

The only real moral flaw Spiderman possesses is his penchant for bringing about the destruction of sentient non-humanoid life (a civilization of vines for example is destroyed when Spiderman takes the radium gems they had been feeding on back to the present to destroy a much larger and unintelligent version of one of the vine people). I do have a problem with the way Spiderman seems to have no moral qualms with their deaths (though he still refrains from killing them directly), but I guess prison isn't really an option for them.

Batman doesn't have to sacrifice quite as much to be a super-hero (he has millions and millions of dollars and is loved by the people) but he's even more virtuous than Spiderman. Even when the criminals try all manner of nefarious plots to bring about either his death he never does anything beyond foiling their plans and putting them in prison. If someone suggests doing something that would violate the rights of the even the worst master criminal, he is shocked. The idea of doing anything immoral is appalling to Batman.

Not only does he practice a strict moral policy of helping the innocent and bringing criminals to trial (though he still believes them innocent till proven guilty), he also tries to imbue virtue on others. For example, when Batman and Robin are rushing after some criminals, Robin doesn't bother to fasten his safety bat belt as they "are only going a couple blocks". Batman then tells Robin that that doesn't matter and that it is the duty of any good citizen to follow the law. He's constantly pushing to make the world a better place.

The virtues I've described also make these shows great for kids to watch. When you are a kid, you don't get the humor of these shows and instead see Batman and Spiderman thwarting evil and setting a great example of virtues one should live by.

While many may not like Batman or Spiderman because they are so virtuous as to make them unrealistic, that's precisely why I admire them. If everyone strove to reach the moral bar set by Spiderman and Batman, we'd all benefit.

So in honour of the Caped Crusaders and Spiderman, Thursday's Banned Word of the Day is: Crime

To the Bat Poles!

Now that was a busy/productive day!

I'd add more detail but it's 5 AM and I'm in need of restings.

No slip ups on the Tuesday word of the day even if Granger tried to make me slip up (Firestarter and starter aren't the same word :P). Going back to a more challenging word now

Banned Word for Wednesday: Sleep

And I need some!

Whew, quite a day. 6 hours of class, friends going through all sorts of conflicts and adversity (in some cases with other friends), and a big pile of work for me to do.

The classes are over. The work's going to be a bitch as I've got a whole bunch of little things to do. Tomorrow, I have to read almost an entire novel, write a poem, go to class and go to a guest speaker thing. That still leaves other readings and two assignments (not large but still) which are due on Friday. Going to be a busy week of work.

The stuff that's going on with my friends is the worst of the developments of the day though. Unlike the work, there's not really a whole bunch I can do about it. It's stuff that they have to work out themselves. I think some of it may have been ironed out today but who knows what'll happen in the days to come. Ideally, everything will work out. I'm keeping my fingers crossed anyway.

Banned Word of the Day didn't go so well today. I made numerous slip-ups within the first hour or two of being awake. For some reason, nobody else seemed to notice these slips but I did. Seeing as Tuesday's going to be a really busy day, I think I'll go with an easy word. That word is...

Banned Word of the Day: starter

A word I probably only use a couple times a week. Should be a no-brainer really. Now watch as I proceed to say it several dozen times over the course of the next 24 hours...

As you may or may not have noticed, Saturday's banned word of the day, also ended up being Sunday's banned word of the day.

See, the thing is, Trevor consumed too much alcohol too quickly, thanks, in large part, to a card drinking game called 'Circle of Death'. As with most things named 'Circle of Death', the results were none too pleasant. From about 5 minutes after finishing with that until the end of the evening my memory is spotty at best. I remember isolated bits and pieces, most notably some 'highly enjoyable' puking in the sink. I also remember a bit of Jeopardy, not wanting to go downtown and Granger forcing me to drink water before I went to bed. The other 90%-95% of the evening however, a complete blank. The lesson is, avoid partaking in activities which prominently feature the word 'Death', particular if the involve consuming large quantities of strong alcohol. :P

Monday's word of the day: Class

I'm picking this word because Monday's are the day where I have 6 hours of class (by far the busiest day of my week). Should be fun.