Free Rice and, more importantly, Free Entertainment

It looks like I'm going to be working through lunch, so you'll have to wait to hear more about our trip.

So here's a quick reprieve from the travelogue and a divulgence of my newest FAVORITE thing ever.

Aunt Angelia turned my obsessive-compulsive-prone attention to FreeRice.com, a site with game-like quizzes that test and hone your vocabulary, geography knowledge and even your artistic eye.

And, supposedly, for every correct answer that you input, the sponsors of the site will donate 10 grains of rice through the UN to HUNGRY CHILDREN EVERYWHERE!

Full disclosure: I should come clean that I'm not that interested in ending world hunger or the people that are on a mission to do so. Just call me a bad person if you want. I somehow found myself as the "public relations representative" for the Auburn University End World Hunger Today Right Now committee. I attended about four meetings before essentially disappearing because I was tired of hour-long rants about people being hungry. Yeah. Just talking about it. —Because doing it is impossible.—

But I'm am very much a fan of games, especially the ones that make you feel alternately brilliant then dumb for knowing the definition of "flittermouse" and then failing to know what an "embonpoint" is.

Here are the different subjects in which you can assess your knowledge:

• Famous Paintings
• Chemical Symbols
• English Grammar
• English Vocabulary
• Identify Countries on the Map
• World Capitals
• French
• German
• Italian
• Spanish
• Basic Math (Pre-Algebra)
• Multiplication Tables

Let me know if you do well in the vocabulary category. As of now, I've not gotten any further than level 44 out of 60.

It's addictive. Just remember that, as Isaac warned me, you can stop at ANY time! The kids will still get the rice.

YES! I knew that was a Botticelli! Now if I could only remember who did this dot painting...