We talked around things for a few minutes, sticking to the unweird stuff like how Alex was finishing up her finals and my AP tests and graduation.

Plastics can take centuries to decompose.

I'm on the lookout for a good example of a Roman dinar from the 1st century. Let me know if you hear of one anywhere.

Wha, like the stricken deer, chased by the hunter's spear, Fled frae the hills o' his father sae scaredly; But wha, by affection's chart, reigns in auld Scotland's heart-- Wha but the royal, the gallant Prince Charlie?