Word of the Day: solivagant

solivagant (n or adj)

Wandering alone.

"Dick walks out to view the created cosmos, and plays the solivagant for about ten years — an undaunted ugly duckling of a fellow!"
--G.F. Monkshood, Rudyard Kipling: An Attempt at Appreciation

This is often how I roll, literally and figuratively. Today I was walking across Manhattan, from my dentist's (alright, endodontist's) office on Madison Avenue to the PATH station on the West Side -- or at least I thought I was. As usual, I was more in my head than on the street, and somehow I ended up on the decidedly eastern Third Avenue. I tend to overdose on reverie, perhaps more so than ever when half my face is numb after a root canal. Maybe a companion would have steered me in the other direction. Other than family members, I don't usually have companions, though. J'ai une âme solitaire.