i've said it once and i'll say it again: my life is suitable material for a great selling screenplay. however, if you take two people's lives, one of them being mine, the other being stella's, you've got yourself a multi-volume mass selling product.

example:

s: what's a marsupial?
r: i'm not sure what the exact definition is, i think a possum is a marsupial.
s: so the requirements are to be really ugly?
r: yeah. marsupial is french for "hideous animal"
s: but they call it 'mar', because the 'supial' is silent
r: yep.

unfortuntaely, this spurs an entire night's conversation about absolutely ntohing where my sleep was rediculously cut short. damn.