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Another year begins. Yeah, I know, I'm late. |
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Got a problem with that? I've been a very busy beaver. Though I don't know why beavers seem to be singled out amongst the animal kingdom as particuarly busy animals, they seem rather boring to me and no where near as busy as say, an Australian sheepdog chasing its tail. Amusing critters, dogs. Hm... in this new year I resolve to read all my reading and finish my assignments more promptly than ever. And take at least one road trip. I may be taking one this weekend, (please, please YES!!) but it is extremely dependent on a variety of factors and regrettably doesn't seem altogether likely. >sigh< Stupid older cars, stupid early morning commitments. Oh well. Just wanted to update this really, kinda pathetic that my last entry was in November! Meep! I shall resolve to update more frequently now! And try to keep the whinging to a minimum. I'm surprised whinging isn't common usage Stateside. I use it all the time and just never thought of it, until people told me they didn't know what I meant. Meh, must go work on a paper. More later.
Edrahil · Wed Jan 19, 2005 @ 05:00pm · 0 Comments |
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Want to guess what the weather's like in southern Florida? Snow! Briefly, and not much at all, but snow! Gah, that and Liturgy were the only highpoints of today. I just walked over to apologize to S for being late regarding our RPG, I guess D and I were both no-shows, it's got to be disappointing. I mean, I know I'm disappointed that we won't be playing today. He's still feeling sick and has massive amounts of homework to catch up on...sort of. I mean, reading isn't that much, for history, there is the annoying lit paper of four pages length, a test to study for in Latin and I don't know what he's doing with math, probably something horrible. I should really cut the guy some slack, after all, we have a dress rehersal Tues and performance Sat.... It's just that I'm bored and all of my friends are doing homework. So I'm doing meaningless things on line and avoiding my room. Wish I had a safe place to retreat to, and while I realize that I kinda do, it's a 'not quite' because I can _hear_ my roommates' horrible music etc. Well, Liturgy was quite nice today. Sermon rather pointless about ... curse it, what was it about? I forget. That's how much of an impact it made. But starting tomorrow until Christmas it's no more meat, no more fish, little dairy, little oil, probably no socials after liturgy too... sigh. Minor Lent...
Edrahil · Sun Nov 14, 2004 @ 08:49pm · 0 Comments |
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30 miles out of the way... |
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and I don't want to cross a campus... Pathetic, ne? So here's the gen, I get up extra early because I figure everyone else will forget to set their clocks back so I'm chilling with my Chesterton and wishing I had more sleep when M and C show up. Those jokers are really two of a kind... Anyway, A shows up right on time and we all pile in his car (Scenario- 3 college students, 1 grad student in 1 _very_ small car) and drive 30 miles to St. Stanislaus (real name changed to protect identity). We know Liturgy's going to be 15 minutes later than usual because of the new priest, Fr. S. (sp?) who hasn't been to St. Stanislaus before. Eventually the old fogies who have never shown up before that I remembered (mind, I think the vacation crowd has started to show up because the church was packed) said we ought to just start the Liturgy of the Presanctified (Typika). Deacon V reluctantly (I hope) aquiesed to their request. When it was over, we found out that Fr. S had shown, only 45 minutes late. He was so freebing young!! I didn't think Byzantine priests came in a young edition but he barely had a beard! It was kinda cool! So then we went over for coffee and drove back and then A had to go ask a priest here if that fulfilled our Sunday obligation.................................................... The priest said "I highly recommend you attend a Mass here." So I didn't mind driving 30 miles out of the way to attend St. Stanislaus's but I did mind walking 3 minutes or less across campus. Go figure. I went, guilt-tripped, in my opinion, sat in the very back and growled at anyone who came close. I nearly cried in the first ten minutes, again, go figure. When A said 'That wasn't so bad' afterwards I told him that and he said words to the effect that "There is a very joy in sorrow", and I said "I know, and that makes sense but I don't like it, and I know, I don't have to like it." I've been hanging out with grad students too much when that's fairly easy to say. Gah, nearly forgot, we have Compline tonight, it's the least I can do since I missed Mass on what is in my opinion a Holyday of Obligation, the feast of All Saints until the idiotic 'reforms' of V2......V2....Any history buffs want to tell me about the _other_ kind of V2? They're quite alike in my opinion.
Edrahil · Mon Nov 01, 2004 @ 06:48pm · 0 Comments |
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Yep, I think I'm there. Cloud Nine would of course be knowing that my history paper was okay and out of the way, but that will come in time, preferably tomorrow. The reason for the trip up to Cloud Seven would be that I got my lit paper checked and okayed, now I just have to make the corrections by class time tomorrow and I'm golden. Just got the latest math assignment >sigh< The plus side is no class on Wednesday, the downside, well, it's math. Midterms are quickly approaching and I should be studying Latin right now, I have a quiz tomorrow. See Edrahil, See Edrahil cram for Latin, See Edrahil flunk Latin quiz, realising her mistakes as she hands it in. As always... Ah, well... On an upside, I get to do a short scene from "The Dark Years" a play I really like, with a guy who is equally enthusiastic. We'll be modifying some things, but I really have high hopes! Later tonight I'm going to talk to a friend, and maybe see if I can find someone to mooch cookies off of..>mm Molasses cookies make me a shameless mooch...then so does chocolate, caramel and candy corn...I'm relatively hopeless<. I'm so tired. Why am I so tired? I really don't want to catch an earache or something, I should sleep eventually. See Edrahil Snooze, See Edrahil Snore, Buy earplugs, for Edrahil snores loudly. See Edrahil complain about roommates who unplug alarm clocks... This is rapidly degenerating, I have to do something less thought intensive... Sayonara minna.
Edrahil · Tue Oct 12, 2004 @ 01:40am · 0 Comments |
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It's funny how much some people feel an urge to control others and it's something of a sad statement regarding humanity in general. An example- I haven't had an assigned role in an assigned project for theatre since 8th grade. Now that I'm in a prestigious institute of higher learning (Is that sarcasm dripping on the floor? How careless of me, I'll have to clean it up...), my teacher, who has apparently spent too much time teaching 8th graders and mentally retarded children, has assigned us all parts. Lucky me, I'm a bit part in her 'pet project' which doesn't have a script yet. This after I've been told I have a 'good stage presence'. Ha. And the irony that's most amusing/stupid, is that a friend of mine who I drag to theatre landed a title role. Oh, and I told her and another girl who got a good part that I thought the casting was somewhat 'arbitrary'. I still think it is. They all looked so satisfied and 'oh isn't this natural' that I felt sick. And I'd just finished dinner. Quid agis? Semper mal. Oh, and that reminds me, I have Latin and math to work on tonight... Wish me luck.
Edrahil · Fri Oct 01, 2004 @ 12:30am · 0 Comments |
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Ever found a notebook you haven't used in years, hidden away bent and beaten, but in the case of hardbacks still reasonably intact? If you open the pages, it's like an instant trip to the past, something I had a hard time believing until I did just that, as opposed to reading what other people had experienced. Pages and pages of handwriting, messy and gradually getting somewhat neater, less script, more print or vice versa. And then blank pages, wherever it was that you left off. It's never to late to start again... That's why I chose this name, Old Notebooks. Welcome to my mini-world.
Edrahil · Thu Sep 30, 2004 @ 12:35am · 0 Comments |
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