sweaty poetry and logophilic tendencies

Math is sweaty poetry.

It makes your brain feel like how your muscles do after you've had an intense work-out.  Super productive; super pooped.  Think brain cells with a sweatband.  Perspiration between the ears.  No regrets.

The numbers click together like cogs of a clock: tk-tk-tk-tk.  Predictable, obedient, gratifying.  A puzzle coming together in the mind.  Successfully evaluating an equation is a feeling of satisfaction so supreme it makes me salivate.  No, really.

Thoroughly sweaty.  Thoroughly poetic.

So, that's essentially my way of conceding that perhaps I was a little dramatic yesterday.

Okay, done conceding.

Fun fact:  I like being clean much more than I like being sweaty.

So, let's dispense with the numbers and talk about words.  Yay.  I was just browsing my most beloved website - you got it - Dictionary.com and delighting in a few particular favorites.  Words attract me for a variety of reasons:

Some feel like water flowing over your ears.  Musical.  Like French.
Some are just plain weird.
Some stack up in your mouth just right.  And then jumble out in a pretty mess.
Some have poignant meanings.  Original.  Fascinating.
Some are simply awesome.

In one way or another, they gratify the little logophile in me.  May I share that with you?  Would you humor me?  Take a moment to traverse a lexical topography foreign to the common English addle-pate?  Yay!  Here are a few favorites (all definitions from Dictionary.com):

amanuenses - a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another; secretary
aplomb - imperturbable self-possession, poise, or assurance
bollix - to do (something) badly; bungle
flibbertigibbet - a chattering or flighty, light-headed person
halcyon - calm; peaceful; tranquil
perspicacity - keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration
prodigious - extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.
querulous - full of complaints; complaining
sesquipedalian - (of a word) containing many syllables; (of a person) given to using long words
surfeit - excess; an excessive amount

Wasn't that refreshing?  Entertaining?  Gratifying?

Thank you for humoring me, friend.