Smarty Pants

One of the reasons I love my boyfriend Matt is because he is smart. Like really smart. Like mensa smart. There are some things his mind computes that I cannot even attempt to comprehend. But it's the little things I learn from him throughtout the day that I love. These little tidbits of knowledge are like sweet-nothings whispered in my ear. Like the other night as we were lying in bed being geeks on our laptops, I asked him, "whatever happened with that whole bird flu thing?" So he googled it, and as I was looking over his shoulder I see PANDEMIC jumping off the screen in bold print. "What's the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?" I asked..."what makes the bird flu get to be a PANdemic. He explained that "pan" was a prefix meaning "all" as in worldly or global. So a pandemic affects ALL the world. "OH!, so like that is where PanAm got its name?....cause they were a global airline?" He nodded that it made sense. Excited with my new found knowledge I then said, "and that's where they got the name for pancakes! Because they are shaped round like a world, you know like the globe!" The look on his face told me that I was no longer on track. I soon realized that there are probably more reasonable explanations of where a pancake got it's name. Probably like the fact that it is a cake made in a pan. But at the end of the night I went to bed a little bit smarter, and a little bit more in love.