That thread about the closeted-in-fandom Catholic (warning, lots of obnoxiousness on all sides) on fandomsecrets the other day made me want to write a post in which I examine Christian privilege as I see it/it affects me and where I am in the whole mess as a "you can take the girl out of the Church but you can't take the Church out of the girl" ex-Catholic ( Read more... )

I don't like to cause or get involved in workplace drama, and I have never hated one of my coworkers before, but I'm fast approaching that stage with Lilia -- the girl at the library I mentioned in my last post. How the hell is she still employed there? Why do they not give me her job when I am clearly more competent (and have been told as much by ( Read more... )

So I sing sometimes at work. Usually melancholy songs -- Radiohead's "Lucky" is a common one. So the other day I had this exchange with the manager, Jose, when he caught me in the middle of the chorus. (Italics be translated from Spanish.)

Him: Are you rezando?
Me: Rezando? I don't know that word.Him: You know, it's when the people at church ( Read more... )

Mid! Week! Vacation! Woo!
bard_linn took yesterday off, so we hung out ( Read more... )

This is probably the best Hokuto-and-Subaru song I've ever stumbled across completely by accident.

That is all.

woo, spring break~

-- Tony talked to me yesterday, mentioned Adrian telling him about the office work I did on Sunday, asked me to get him my schedule for the new year so we could work on training stuff. So it looks like I'll be getting an assistant manager/shift leader position after all. This is great for my resume (and also probably my schedule since I'll likely ( Read more... )

HELL WEEK IS OVER, YAY

I got nothin' else to say (haha, or not) except the weather sucks. And I'm tired. And on the way to class I passed a truck that had pulled up onto the sidewalk to get out of the way after dragging a traffic light (pole and all) halfway down the block. It was kinda hilarious ( Read more... )

( Four dreams )

So yesterday Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons, died. A toast to the man whose love for gaming shaped RPGs for our generation and led me to meet all sorts of wonderful people ( Read more... )

Okay, so my FINAL FINAL class schedule ( Read more... )