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So it turns out "ironical" really is a word. I used it once in a sentence a long time ago because "ironical" seemed like a better word than "ironic." My teacher at the time corrected me and insisted that ironical wasn't a word. The problem was, I kinda liked the sound of it. Over the years I found myself using ironical more and more, define it even further (a cross between ironic and comical). I just started to chalk it up as one of those words I just made up and regularly incorporated into my dialogue--kinda like anywhos and shouldn'tve. Today I received some devastating news: it turns out "ironical" really IS a word.

Two lessons to be learned from this situation: if someone says something isn't a word, look it up. And two, never trust a high school teacher as the final, know-all source of knowledge.

Today was the first day of school--I've been through about ten of these now and it really doesn't faze me. But there was something I noticed this year as I was checking out the latest batch of girls my junior college had to offer--these girls sure do look awful young. For the first time ever, I looked at a college campus and felt the girls there were way too young for me. I felt--dare I say?--my age. There's no way I could ever pass for a peer amongst those students--I was the creepy old guy.

It was bound to happen eventually, but I never anticipated it would happen so soon. Those girls--those kids were born in 1988. I remember 1988--how sad is that? Eighty-eight doesn't seem like so long ago, does it? A Bush was president; Julio Franco was playing baseball; Kevin Costner made crappy movies (some things don't change). Gays were nonexistent on television; movies rarely made $100 million; the 49ers were unbeatable (and some things do).

Just think--those 88'ers know nothing of the USSR or life without "The Simpsons." The Challenger explosion is something they read about in history books. FOX has always been considered a viable television station. It's frightening. Maybe it's time I just grow up and accept it--there's no way I can pretend to be 24.

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