Well, now that I’ve got a camera, I might as well start spicing up my blog with it on occasion.

Though I have a large vocabulary, I’m not exactly a world champion Scrabble player. It does appear that I’ve improved dramatically; sometimes I even make brilliant moves that would stun the best of them.

Long story short, last night I played a rather good game against my sister. I started with a lead of about 30 points, but when I kept getting terrible draws, and even had to trade in letters three times (six vowels…or three N’s…). By mid-game, she had an equally large lead on me. By the end, though, I managed to eke my way out to a tie, and on the penultimate turn, managed to secure a victory of three points. Quite the dramatic game.

I’m quite proud (yeah, I’m a dork) of a particular turn of mine. She played the word AXIS horizontally, and there was an S above the A. I thought for a minute, and suddenly realized that all the letters in SAHIB made real two-letter words if played right on top of AXIS (AX, HI, IS), and threw it down in triumph. (It was also on a double word score.) Check it out.

She challenged it, but alas, sahib is a word. Hurrah! A truly epic game of Scrabble.

I need to write more questions! Also, if you’re in Aegis and you’re reading this, go write questions! Also, if you’re not in Aegis and you intend to be, send in your application!