RL rambles and Zorro list

[kattahj]

Wow, my internet addiction must be profound - I'm busy for a few days and jadelennox pops me an e-mail to make sure I'm still alive. *g* Which I am, though exhausted - I've had a couple of long workdays, and yesterday was the worst, working from 8.30 AM to 8 PM, which meant leaving the house at 7 and coming home at 9.30. Truth be told, I mostly feel sorry for the cats, who had to spend all that time alone. (It would be SO much easier if they didn't hate each other.)

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I've decided to observe Lent this year, which is a little bit crazy considering that I haven't been to church since Christmas and barely know if I'm a Christian anymore (except in the ways that I totally am). But observing Lent has always appealed to me, though I've never tried doing it since junior high and failed miserably then - it's a form of worship that's practical, individual, and nobody else's business. Since I suck at all things requiring strength of character, I'm giving up very little: red meat, chicken, and sweets (also including stuff like popcorn), during the weekdays. The sweets were the hardest things to justify from any non-selfish aspect - I do find the meat industry questionable, but I doubt the world is any worse for wear because I pig out on popcorn or cookies. But OTOH it would feel majorly weird to give up something as inconsequential for my wellbeing as red meat and keep the popcorn. So I choose to see it as an exercise in Doing Without.

Of course, today, one of my companion clients gave me a late Christmas present, namely a huge box of chocolates. I dropped it off at my parents', explaining that I could avoid eating it by not having it in the house, they could avoid eating it by telling themselves it was mine, and we could all have some on Sunday. (Though I have no doubt the box will last until Easter and beyond.)

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Anyway. Enough rambling about boring real life stuff. On the free moments I still have, I've watched even more old Zorro eps, and boy, that world has some truly bizarre rules. So, list.

TEN THINGS THAT ARE TRUFAX IN ZORRO-LAND

• "I was your age" actually means "I was five years younger than I am now, meaning 18 years older than you, at least if I'm to be believed to have been in university along with the alcalde, but hey, who cares about measly little timelines?"


• The university of Madrid in the 1820s had "seniors" and "freshmen".


• Taxes are paid by the poor to finance the lifestyle of the rich.


• Little Spanish orphans in the late 18th century believed in Santa Claus.


• Everyone has an evil twin, even evil people. If you don't have a twin, you'll at the very least have someone who looks like your twin.


• There's absolutely no difference between ”Jewish” and ”Native American”. (Y HI THAR MEL BROOKS!)


• No one will find it the least bit suspicious if a person who's supposed to be deaf whistles the latest Beethoven symphony in the plaza.


• The descendants of Athos, Porthos, and D'Artagnan, would be called Athos, Porthos, and D'Artagnan. Because there's no such thing as an alias.


• The following people (and more) are in fact Spanish, and never mind their atrocious or nonexisting accents: Andre the Giant, Daniel Craig, Warwick Davis, Steven Hartley, Roger Lloyd Pack, Pete Postlethwaite, Dougray Scott.

and the obvious one:

Pueblo de los Angeles has enough slim, well-mannered, blue-eyed men with moustaches that it's downright impossible to recognize one of them if he changes clothes and wears a mask.