EPEE is a fencing sword. I learned the doing cross-word puzzles. I finished my first cross-word puzzle EVER on Tuesday!!! I did it without any assistance (much like Rachel in that one episode of Friends -- and by the way, I'm not that huge of a fan to remember things like that but I happen to have season 4 on DVD so it was new to me.) I'm quite proud of myself!
AND epee was used the next day too in Tuesday's puzzle. (Monday's puzzle took me 2 days -- well it didn't take 2 DAYS - more like 2 days of classes.
I tried the puzzle again today in class (ps. I'm officially accepted to grad school which doesn't directly correlate to me doing puzzles in class but... assume away!) - but it was much harder!! I worked on it for all 2 hours of class and didn't get too far - but my friend next to me picked up during break and finished the whole thing in just the second half of class.... sigh - someday!!
I do much better with sudoku puzzles. Numbers make much more sense. There is clearly one right answer. But crossword puzzles, the answers seem to be limitless - but they just fool you. Really - RAP is a 3 letter word for "seance sound" - I liked my "OOM" better - but that didn't work with the other ones. AND putting 2 or more words into a line!!! That still gets me. I tried to figure out what NOONE meant b/c it was clearly what the other words made for the clue "Nary a soul" -- only when I asked my crossword guru friend about it, she laughed very loudly and told me "NO ONE" (I've done that a couple times with her already)
Here's waiting for next Monday's puzzle (b/c the rest of this week is going to be too hard!)
4 comments:
this made me smile. what a great post.
[i am also a fan of sudoku for the very same reasons you listed.]
Yea, I liked this too... and I HATE both sudoku and crossword puzzles. But great post. I was really wondering where you were going with the title. :)
Congratulations on getting into grad school. I knew you could do it ;)
"I liked my 'OOM' better"
this made me laugh out loud.
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