Oddity: For someone who has chosen words - writing them, reading them, studying them - as her life occupation, I find myself at a loss for them more frequently than I would like to admit. It is as if the more I learn about language, the less capable I am of expressing myself. Perhaps this is the English major's version of realizing just how little you know. I want the perfect word for every situation, but the more words I learn, the more I realize how many I just don't know.