June 30th, a famous day

[mar2387]

Despite the fact that my June 30th of 2005 is evidently going to be spent sitting around my room, looking up the lyrics to "Rock the Casbah," and boxing up a corner of the basement, today is actually a historic day [Editor's note: I am in protest of writing "an historic day" because there is clearly an articulated consonant at the beginning of "

Comments

[slewkie7447]

The one about Albert Einstein introducing special relativity is effing sexy. Or maybe just to science freaks like myself...

And you could call your girlfriend and do something with her, if you're that bored. I hear that she's been sitting at her computer since 9:30 downloading music onto her iPod. How sad is that?

[slewkie7447]

P.S. Posts two days in a row!!! I'm so proud, meiner Liebling!

[danielsh]

"An historic" always puzzled me. The only English dialects I can think of that don't include an exhaling sound at the beginning of "historic" are cockney and Southern, and neither of those is the model for proper English usage.