February 22, 2008

• A HodgePodge of Nothing in Particular

  I’m kind of hoping that when I call work in a couple hours, they’ll tell me not to come in due to the weather. It’s been snowing off and on since before I woke up this morning, and it’s supposed to change to freezing rain tonight. So maybe they’ll close early and simply tell me to stay home rather than come in for two hours and leave. I’ll still go out and shovel out my car in an hour, but I really don’t like driving around in potentially deadly weather. I don’t understand people that have to go to the mall during bad weather. I don’t understand how they can risk their lives to hang out and spend money and therefore risk my life in the process since if I don’t go to work to serve their needs, I may not have a job to go to when the weather is fine. I mean, am I missing something here?

  Is it just me, or have movies been for crap lately? Maybe it’s just that the kind of movies I like have been in short supply. I like comedy, sci-fi, and horror. The only one I’ve been interested in seeing is Spiderwick, even though I’ve heard it didn’t get such good reviews. On the other hand, that’s mostly because people have been trying to compare it to Harry Potter. Well, that’s okay by me then… I didn’t really like the Harry Potter movies, especially not the last one which seemed to take vignettes from the book, and viola! movie. No, I’m sorry. It just doesn’t work that way. That’s called a collage.

  I dreamed last night about marrying a Hobbit or marrying some guy and living in a Hobbit village and then I had to go to Disney World to make a complaint because Disney was sending troops in to take over the village…. But they wouldn’t let me in to complain because I wasn’t a card carrying Disney character. Then I was walking down a half-washed out causeway… and when I got back to the village it was deserted. I also dreamed I got sick and called into work… so I guess maybe I was already inclined not to work today before I even woke up to a winter wonderland.

  I guess I’m still in a whiny mood from yesterday. I’m gonna go read stuff.

  Edit: I did not in fact have to go to work today. Yay!

  2nd Edit: This just in….  ‘Pagan’ has taken yet another turn and is now used in some circles as a compliment. Among a growing number of people, ‘Pagan’ now means ‘post-Christian religionist who is attempting to rescue reverence for nature from the hands of evil Judeo-Christian earth rapists.
                                            choke…. splutter…. bwahahahahahahaah
                                            okay I’m sorry, but seriously! That is the single-most amusing sentence I have ever read. I could practically draw a cartoon based on that sentence. Just the term “evil Judeo-Christian earth rapists” is funny as heck. I’m wondering, is this a sub-cult of Christianity? I’m picturing a bunch of monks trying to stick their “things” in the dirt while trees with cartooney faces look on apalled. I’m sorry! Really! I’m just sick in the head. Gah, now I’m picturing a couple of raccoons in police uniforms leading the crazy earth rapists away in handcuffs, maybe the earth on a couch talking to a therapist…. I think it’s time I signed off for the night.

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  February 22

  The Roman festival of Charista, Caristia, or Cara Cognatio (from the word cara “dear” kinsfolk) is a feast of favor and good will in honor of the goddess Concordia. Disputes between family and friends are settled today and presents were given with the intent of reconciling friends and relations. Near relations come to honor the familial deities, the Lares, with offerings of incense and food. This holiday also serves to strengthen family bonds. After so many days of honoring the dead, the celebrants rejoice in the living.

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  Sybil Leek (1923-1983) was born today. Sybil Leek was an English Witch, a gifted psychic, astrologer, and prolific author who wrote more than 60 books on such subjects as Astrology, Numerology and Reincarnation. She was born with a witch’s mark and claimed to be a hereditary witch of Irish and Russian descent. Her entire family was involved in astrology and some of the guests who visited her childhood home included H.G. Wells, Lawrence of Arabia and Aleister Crowley.

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