Continuing to catch up on life.

[kiya]

I still hate my washing machine. In case anyone thought this might have changed somewhere along the line.

Topped up the lily tank somewhat. Need to do more on that. Fed the lilies.

Had a . . . very strange dream. In which I was attending some sort of formal saq, as far as I could tell. And got a major dressing-down from Athena. I don't remember the content of most of it, and am somewhat bemused. (Maybe I should get my bloody loom built. Need to clean the green room for that. Should add to to-do anyway.)

whispercricket and I got beaten quite solidly at Hand and Foot at games. But there was Twister, and thus there were attractive men contorting themselves for my entertainment. (There were also attractive women contorting themselves, but my appreciation of that is less personal.)

For St. Pat's, for the folks who aren't Irish Catholics (green) or Irish Protestants (orange), but are nonetheless Irish, why not go with the remaining complementary colour?

Got a draft of something ksol1460 asked me to write about my median experience done; will have to have people read it and tell me where it's disjointed.

oneironaut made me a pretty thing.

Bloated and crampy and cranky and at least not under a neutronium stressball.

Comments

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

*lots of supportive noises* I hope things get better soon!

And there seems to be something in the air when it comes to dreams, I'm having weird ones and so are quite a few others on my flist.

[ardaniel]

That's weird, because the last really oddly sort-of-religious dream I had earlier this week was very Kemetic. ;)

[bloodvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Em hotep! Just thought I'd say hello! I'm a good friend of ladyofchulak and I found you through her journal. You may know me online as "Sekhmetmeset". Anyway, just thought I'd drop you a line! Mind if I friend you?

[kiya]

Sure, go ahead. :)

Purple

[ailbhe]

I got about as far as "I support Ireland's desire for a unified Ireland" and got very confused. Who is this person? Where do they get their idea Ireland wants All This And Paisley Too?

Hrumph grump. I couldn't celebrate in a traditional manner, as the True Irish Way of celebrating St Patrick's Day is to stand for an hour in the rain waiting for a soggy parade of Boy Scouts and so on to march by, which takes a maximum of 30 minutes, then complain about the traffic jams on the way home. It was too sunny here, and anyway, there wasn't a parade as far as I know.

I had *much* more fun.

Re: Purple

[kiya]

I get the impression that the sense a lot of people-of-Irish-descent have for what's appropriate for such things is a lot different from the sense that people-who-are-Irish have; it tends to introduce a lot of really weird stuff across the cultural divide.

Over here, there's a lot of cultural foofaraw about St. Pat's (especially, I think, near where I live, since Boston has a large component of culture from the folks known as the Boston Irish). In the community where I read that post originally, there was also some discussion about the fringe elements in paganism who want to firmly boycott the celebrations in an antagonistic way.

It's very interesting to poke at, sociologically.

Re: Purple

[ailbhe]

Add in that a lot of Irish (and English) people reacted to the War on Terrorism stuff by thinking, and sometimes saying, "So NOW do you feel bad about all the funding you've done? Hmm?"

And I've been harassed online and asked to produce proof that I'm "really" Irish, like the harasser's husband, who used to like, live in Scotland, whcih counts.

My weird nick (Ailbhe) was proof that I was faking Irishness to be popular.

However, I made good money out of American tourists in my youth - leave your shoes off for a day or two and they pay for photographs :-)

Sociology. Hm. Perhaps.

Re: Purple

[kiya]

Meh. I'd say "Don't get me started on American hypocrisy", but I don't think I'm capable of getting started on it at the moment because I feel too bleh. Insert rant here.

I got bitched out once on a pagan community for "Irish affectations", and snarked at about how every damn pagan has to do that sort of thing, and all kinds of frothing lunacy -- because I said "'tis". Because nobody really has that sort of thing in their active vocabulary unless they're being posers. (I still feel sort of "WTF?" about this.)