Christmas time is Here
Christmas time is here. This means for me: traffic is terrible around my place of employment. Traffic is WONDERFULLY absent in and around campus.
I am a flipper. I constantly flip through channels like a kid with ADD. I caught Dolly Parton singing a little song in her Christmas movie. (I'm sure its a terrible movie) She has a lovely voice. Its like lace sugar. She recently had a duet released...I noticed her voice on the radio. Beautiful. I feel like I've been aurally blind to her and her music, because of her ridiculous looks. ACk. How could I be so blind? I feel like a freak for liking her voice so much!
Went to a party thrown by the professor I worked for. He had a tiki bar in his living room...
I have decided to go to New Orleans medical school. It is true that the faculty encountered in Shreve was nicer...but! They have a f'up way of cutting the cadavers and their facilities are crap. What do I say of many of the faculty leaving NOLA? WEll, if the med school can afford such nice facilities...(they are awesome)..then SURELY they can afford awesome faculty. Lets face it, people will come to teach if you wave enough money in their faces. Nuff said.
Grades this, my final semester at LSU: all A's and a hard fought B. Damn, biochem was a hard class.
Ha. I brought copies of my senior recital to work today. I played it in the office. It made me miss playing (well) so much. I played when I got home.
*yawn* I'm taking the bitch shift tomorrow at work. 10-6 on Christmas Eve. Usually pretty quiet on Christmas Eve...it's ashame that I know that fact. I think I was born to work. Even when I'm off, I feel like I need to do something productive.
I'm trying to get the whole Catholic Mary thing. I've come up with something. Mary is the epitome of humbleness and servitude. I see this in her words in the first chapter of Luke. I can't understand the significance of the Hail Mary, though, I have to ponder that even more. So, hmm, instead of honoring a person, perhaps one is honoring an idea, one of a life of servitude and humility. That is what Mary did, from the embarrassing conception of Jesus on. Its hard to make sense of all this stuff, if it is taken so literally. To hold up an imperfect person and call her the "Queen of Heaven" is out there. Why would she be the queen of heaven? Why would she help you in the hour of your death? Maybe through death we are perfectly humbled--mortal. Maybe we need to be reminded of it. I just don't get how so much can be taken from so little...'full of grace'...'favored by God'..does this really make her the 'Queen of Heaven?' Surely the queen of heaven is grace itself and not a person. Do you guys even know what your praying about when you say the Hail Mary a gillion times? I know there's not answers to every thing...esp when it comes to such matters...but really, does any body know, or even have a clue, what they are chanting about? I don't, but perhaps I will find out...
Seemed like a bit of a rant, but twasn't. Very intriguing. Very. Incredible story. Interesting ritual, really.
MARY Christmas, everybody!
I am a flipper. I constantly flip through channels like a kid with ADD. I caught Dolly Parton singing a little song in her Christmas movie. (I'm sure its a terrible movie) She has a lovely voice. Its like lace sugar. She recently had a duet released...I noticed her voice on the radio. Beautiful. I feel like I've been aurally blind to her and her music, because of her ridiculous looks. ACk. How could I be so blind? I feel like a freak for liking her voice so much!
Went to a party thrown by the professor I worked for. He had a tiki bar in his living room...
I have decided to go to New Orleans medical school. It is true that the faculty encountered in Shreve was nicer...but! They have a f'up way of cutting the cadavers and their facilities are crap. What do I say of many of the faculty leaving NOLA? WEll, if the med school can afford such nice facilities...(they are awesome)..then SURELY they can afford awesome faculty. Lets face it, people will come to teach if you wave enough money in their faces. Nuff said.
Grades this, my final semester at LSU: all A's and a hard fought B. Damn, biochem was a hard class.
Ha. I brought copies of my senior recital to work today. I played it in the office. It made me miss playing (well) so much. I played when I got home.
*yawn* I'm taking the bitch shift tomorrow at work. 10-6 on Christmas Eve. Usually pretty quiet on Christmas Eve...it's ashame that I know that fact. I think I was born to work. Even when I'm off, I feel like I need to do something productive.
I'm trying to get the whole Catholic Mary thing. I've come up with something. Mary is the epitome of humbleness and servitude. I see this in her words in the first chapter of Luke. I can't understand the significance of the Hail Mary, though, I have to ponder that even more. So, hmm, instead of honoring a person, perhaps one is honoring an idea, one of a life of servitude and humility. That is what Mary did, from the embarrassing conception of Jesus on. Its hard to make sense of all this stuff, if it is taken so literally. To hold up an imperfect person and call her the "Queen of Heaven" is out there. Why would she be the queen of heaven? Why would she help you in the hour of your death? Maybe through death we are perfectly humbled--mortal. Maybe we need to be reminded of it. I just don't get how so much can be taken from so little...'full of grace'...'favored by God'..does this really make her the 'Queen of Heaven?' Surely the queen of heaven is grace itself and not a person. Do you guys even know what your praying about when you say the Hail Mary a gillion times? I know there's not answers to every thing...esp when it comes to such matters...but really, does any body know, or even have a clue, what they are chanting about? I don't, but perhaps I will find out...
Seemed like a bit of a rant, but twasn't. Very intriguing. Very. Incredible story. Interesting ritual, really.
MARY Christmas, everybody!