Whenever I give out this blog site's url to people, I always add that its existence is more of a 'navel gazing' exercise for me. This is a place for me to decompress and write about silly things. Sometimes I feel that I ought to be writing insightful nuggets of topics that interest me; politics, religion, science, current affairs, but ultimately I'm more of a consumer. I read more than I produce, and these days, I'm supposed to be producing something that will be published ultimately in a journal and not on this site. Therefew this site consists of non boffinish fluff - my navel gazing haven.

So imagine my delight when I fould out that there's a word for it. Yes, Anu Garg over at Wordsmith.org sent it over.

Its (tadah!) Omphaloskepsis - Contemplation of one's navel

From Greek omphalos (navel) + skepsis (act of looking, examination).
Ultimately from the Indo-European root spek- (to observe) which is
also the ancestor of suspect, spectrum, bishop (literally, overseer),
despise, espionage, telescope, spectator, and spectacles.]

Learn something new everyday, eh?