oh the things i learn...

...via my own ignorance.

i'm writing a friend back and was trying to cleverly phrase the fact that he's in love will all things lower intestinal. i was trying to come up with "gastrointestinally." what i wrote and immediately knew was wrong was "gesticularly," which, aside from not being a word, was very close to "gesticulate" which means using gestures for emphasis. i then typed in "gasticulate"-- my tired brain was getting closer-- and that, believe it or not, is not a word, either. so it led me to that "did you mean this" page. that's when i came across "gastrulate," which means,"To form or become a gastrula."

what the hell is a gastrula?

Gastrula: An embryo at the stage following the blastula, consisting of a hollow, two-layered sac of ectoderm and endoderm surrounding an archenteron that communicates with the exterior through the blastopore.

i don't know what that sentence meant, but i think i might pass it on to my friend. lord knows, he loves his vocab words.