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Apr. 9th, 2023 03:15 pmDisconnected thoughts, for reasons that will ebcome clear:( Read more... )
Realm: Update - Subrealm: Easter(?), 2020
Apr. 14th, 2020 04:07 pmWell, folks, it's officially a slow afternoon here in work-from-home land. I went for a walk (with mask) after lunch, bought chocolates, spent most of an hour EATING said chocolates (they may have been a mistake) while rereading some of my favorite bits of The Mauritius Command, finally dragged my lazy keister into Spare Oom to get some work done, and still managed to finish* my back-burner project of helping to update the small business database... despite having tabs for a video of a Messiah performance and cracked.com open in the background. Time for my long-delayed Easter update.
( Cut for DIY Liturgy )
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Mar. 25th, 2020 04:43 pmPhrases I never thought I would need to write:
"I AM NOT CHANTING THE EXSULTET WHILE LIVESTREAMING A BURNING COMPOST PILE"
I appreciate the, err, thought, though, Squig.
"I AM NOT CHANTING THE EXSULTET WHILE LIVESTREAMING A BURNING COMPOST PILE"
I appreciate the, err, thought, though, Squig.
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Apr. 22nd, 2019 02:46 pmBuilding on what I said in my last two posts, this weekend in Boston likely featured:
- skipping meals, but also possibly
- eating too much/eating too much junk food
- meals at weird hours
- staying up half the night
- keeping going on caffeine and adrenaline (or stubbornness)
- watching people in crazy costumes
- rituals and/or catch-phrases in foreign languages that baffle first-timers/outsiders
...at least if you were doing either Triduum or Anime Boston.
- skipping meals, but also possibly
- eating too much/eating too much junk food
- meals at weird hours
- staying up half the night
- keeping going on caffeine and adrenaline (or stubbornness)
- watching people in crazy costumes
- rituals and/or catch-phrases in foreign languages that baffle first-timers/outsiders
...at least if you were doing either Triduum or Anime Boston.
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Apr. 18th, 2017 02:24 pmSo I forwarded G's Red Sox Exodus to [a clergy friend who shall remain nameless]. This being the retelling of the 2004 season that ends "...And the fans set fire to cars on Lansdowne Street. The Word of the Lord."
CFWSRN wrote back
"We did set fire to cars -- and it was very good!"
[boggles]
I mean, he may be kidding, or using "we" loosely, but even if so...
CFWSRN wrote back
"We did set fire to cars -- and it was very good!"
[boggles]
I mean, he may be kidding, or using "we" loosely, but even if so...
Realm: Teaching
Apr. 20th, 2014 10:54 pmReasons I hate study guide preparation:
1. Tedious, fiddly, stressful.
2. One of the major annoyances of World History - namely, trying to cram too much material into too little space - in concentrated form.
3. Foreknowledge that students will complain about it.
4. Invariably makes me realize that I've been inadvertently sexist in my coverage all semester. (Reminds me that I did the same thing last year/semester, promised myself amendment of life, and failed to do better.)
5. I should not have to work during Triduum.
6. Especially after singing five services in 3.5 days.
7. Designing romanesque churches, playing antiquated computer games, and rereading A Clash of Kings all seem like much more worthwhile endeavors.
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I going to drink now. (Well, like a glass.) Then sleeeeep.
1. Tedious, fiddly, stressful.
2. One of the major annoyances of World History - namely, trying to cram too much material into too little space - in concentrated form.
3. Foreknowledge that students will complain about it.
4. Invariably makes me realize that I've been inadvertently sexist in my coverage all semester. (Reminds me that I did the same thing last year/semester, promised myself amendment of life, and failed to do better.)
5. I should not have to work during Triduum.
6. Especially after singing five services in 3.5 days.
7. Designing romanesque churches, playing antiquated computer games, and rereading A Clash of Kings all seem like much more worthwhile endeavors.
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I going to drink now. (Well, like a glass.) Then sleeeeep.
I still think of it as Galata: the former Genoese colony to the north of the Golden Horn, crowned by a huge fourteenth-century tower. It’s at the top of a very steep hill, which we hiked up more or less by guesswork. Beyond it begins Istanbul’s main shopping street, the Iskiklal Cad, which we wandered around before hiking down, through increasingly poor neighbourhoods, to reach ( Christ Church )
