Nice weekend
Well, my weekend to myself was good. Not a very productive one, but good nonetheless. Which is great because it just occurred to me that next weekend is the Grove's Thargelia celebration, so there will be no enjoying my anti-social solitude.
With any luck, life won't piss me off to the point that I need to retreat into a cave to keep from killing everyone between now and then. I really don't think I'm going to get much out of an Apollonian purification festival (Apollo and I have no relationship, and this pretty much came from him, too) but I'll go anyway to support the inclusion of more Greek festivals at the Grove (also to support occasionally not celebrating traditional Pagan Beltane, which I probably wouldn't have gone to at all if that had been what we were doing, I see no actual point in celebrating things life does not allow me to have).
I will finally get to meet Dominic's girlfriend at Thargelia. I'm curious, because apparently this girl has decided that I am just a fantastic human being and she is going to fucking love me. I don't know what it is lately with these young girls who think I'm the shit. Most women in general avoid me like the unholy plague that I am, young girls especially so. I just don't get it.
Apparently Trillium wasn't so bad and wouldn't have sent me flying into seizures of rage. This is good, maybe I will go next year, who knows? Wellspring is a possibility, but it is a bigger festival so much more of a chance of running into some of the long, long, long list of people from the various lists I only half read that I don't ever want to meet in person; from the people I've actually jumped on the list to publicly argue with, or people who have just said things so stupid that after my eyes stopped bleeding there was just nothing left to say. I am far more diplomatic on the internet than I am in person, I can step away for a minute and compose my response more carefully; in person I'd be much more apt to blurt out, "You're a fucking idiot, and you need to shut up. Now." I maintain that some people seriously need to be told that, though. Like that asshole I was bitching about a while back who was saying women shouldn't have to read books because it goes against our feminine energies, I would've just punched her in the face without saying a word (and she never would've seen it coming either, since I'm female and all women are of course kind, gentle, nurturing creatures; only men are capable of violence, and that's another argument I remember having with some small minded idiot over there that also would've just got you hit upside the head, if only to prove you wrong, "Women are capable of violence, here I'll show you." :-)).
ADF seems to have more that its fair share of the peace, love and happiness crowd (hell, much of Paganism has more than its fair share of that), and those kind of people give me a rash. I'm sure I have the same effect on them as well (or at least I certainly hope so :-)). But I've got some time to think about it, we'll see.
I realized today that I have all my bills for the month paid off and this next pay check is all free money. Aside from the obligatory food, coffee and cigarettes, a good chunk of this is going to home trip in August (seems like the wedding is on), after that a Barnes and Noble trip will likely be in order. I've finally found where they've been hiding their forensic books, in stores I've gone to before they've always been in True Crime, here apparently they're in Sociology. They have the forensic text book I unfortunately left behind at home (and which is coming back with me this summer one way or the other), so if I ever need to reference it I know I can find it somewhere (could've been helpful during the whole "rape is only ever about power, never about sex" argument that broke out on Renee's journal a while back; not that I haven't fought with people on that point enough to have my that's not just wrong its stupid speech memorized by now, as Renee can well attest to (I think she learned more that night that she ever wanted to know, which happens a lot when you hang around with me), but it would've been nice to have on hand). There is this particular book there I'm eyeballing written by a man who has come up with a theory on what turns people into killers and how under the right circumstances anybody can commit murder or any other crime; as I've believed that myself for years now, I'm curious to see what he has to say. Only twenty bucks, so why not?
With any luck, life won't piss me off to the point that I need to retreat into a cave to keep from killing everyone between now and then. I really don't think I'm going to get much out of an Apollonian purification festival (Apollo and I have no relationship, and this pretty much came from him, too) but I'll go anyway to support the inclusion of more Greek festivals at the Grove (also to support occasionally not celebrating traditional Pagan Beltane, which I probably wouldn't have gone to at all if that had been what we were doing, I see no actual point in celebrating things life does not allow me to have).
I will finally get to meet Dominic's girlfriend at Thargelia. I'm curious, because apparently this girl has decided that I am just a fantastic human being and she is going to fucking love me. I don't know what it is lately with these young girls who think I'm the shit. Most women in general avoid me like the unholy plague that I am, young girls especially so. I just don't get it.
Apparently Trillium wasn't so bad and wouldn't have sent me flying into seizures of rage. This is good, maybe I will go next year, who knows? Wellspring is a possibility, but it is a bigger festival so much more of a chance of running into some of the long, long, long list of people from the various lists I only half read that I don't ever want to meet in person; from the people I've actually jumped on the list to publicly argue with, or people who have just said things so stupid that after my eyes stopped bleeding there was just nothing left to say. I am far more diplomatic on the internet than I am in person, I can step away for a minute and compose my response more carefully; in person I'd be much more apt to blurt out, "You're a fucking idiot, and you need to shut up. Now." I maintain that some people seriously need to be told that, though. Like that asshole I was bitching about a while back who was saying women shouldn't have to read books because it goes against our feminine energies, I would've just punched her in the face without saying a word (and she never would've seen it coming either, since I'm female and all women are of course kind, gentle, nurturing creatures; only men are capable of violence, and that's another argument I remember having with some small minded idiot over there that also would've just got you hit upside the head, if only to prove you wrong, "Women are capable of violence, here I'll show you." :-)).
ADF seems to have more that its fair share of the peace, love and happiness crowd (hell, much of Paganism has more than its fair share of that), and those kind of people give me a rash. I'm sure I have the same effect on them as well (or at least I certainly hope so :-)). But I've got some time to think about it, we'll see.
I realized today that I have all my bills for the month paid off and this next pay check is all free money. Aside from the obligatory food, coffee and cigarettes, a good chunk of this is going to home trip in August (seems like the wedding is on), after that a Barnes and Noble trip will likely be in order. I've finally found where they've been hiding their forensic books, in stores I've gone to before they've always been in True Crime, here apparently they're in Sociology. They have the forensic text book I unfortunately left behind at home (and which is coming back with me this summer one way or the other), so if I ever need to reference it I know I can find it somewhere (could've been helpful during the whole "rape is only ever about power, never about sex" argument that broke out on Renee's journal a while back; not that I haven't fought with people on that point enough to have my that's not just wrong its stupid speech memorized by now, as Renee can well attest to (I think she learned more that night that she ever wanted to know, which happens a lot when you hang around with me), but it would've been nice to have on hand). There is this particular book there I'm eyeballing written by a man who has come up with a theory on what turns people into killers and how under the right circumstances anybody can commit murder or any other crime; as I've believed that myself for years now, I'm curious to see what he has to say. Only twenty bucks, so why not?