Happy Feast Day!
Today is Candlemas, or the Presenataion of the Lord, (or formerly the purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary). In any event, it has been 40 days since Christmas, and the days definitely are longer. Wikipedia has many interesting entires about this day, and the pagan holiday it replaced - imbolc, which they celebrate as the festival of the goddess of fire, with, you guessed it, candles! It got me thinking about this common accusation of the Catholic Church replacing pagan holidays (Christmas the festival of light, Easter the festival of fertility, etc), but I think that this isn't accurate. I think that it is more accurate to say the Church clarified the pagan festivals - the light celebrated at the end of December is no longer the light of the sun but the Light of the Son, etc.
Life has been swell lately, well, apart from very cold. I must be getting old, I haven't ridden my bike all month! I did my taxes a few weeks ago, all save the last few forms I am waiting to receive, and now I await them to finish up and get my big fat refund check. Home ownership and self dependancey are where its at for tax filing purposes!
Work has been exciting. They sent me to a UW Madison engineering career fair to recruit earlier this week. Also I've been getting these omnious e-mails with subject lines like "visa application for Brazil trip," indicating that I am on the short list of potential engineers for getting sent down to Brazil to do basically the same thing I was doing in Texas last July, except this time out at sea, and in Brazil. If this trip comes to fruition, I will have more to post later.
Other than that, I'm getting excited for
enigma5312 's visit next week. We're doing all that fun "wedding planning stuff."
Life has been swell lately, well, apart from very cold. I must be getting old, I haven't ridden my bike all month! I did my taxes a few weeks ago, all save the last few forms I am waiting to receive, and now I await them to finish up and get my big fat refund check. Home ownership and self dependancey are where its at for tax filing purposes!
Work has been exciting. They sent me to a UW Madison engineering career fair to recruit earlier this week. Also I've been getting these omnious e-mails with subject lines like "visa application for Brazil trip," indicating that I am on the short list of potential engineers for getting sent down to Brazil to do basically the same thing I was doing in Texas last July, except this time out at sea, and in Brazil. If this trip comes to fruition, I will have more to post later.
Other than that, I'm getting excited for
enigma5312 's visit next week. We're doing all that fun "wedding planning stuff."