The 1st years (12-13 year olds) were telling me improbable news stories to see would I believe them. I was having none of it. Then one of them turns to another of them and says the immortal line: "Do you know if you say the word chicken realllly slowly in sounds like gullible?"

Genius. Total Genius!

We have been looking at gift lists all morning and it's interesting what you find out about one another. I don't think we can ever have too many glasses and The GC has decided opinions about nut bowls

looking at one of our gift websitesThe GC: Show me that bowl ( Read more... )

"The desert is an arid, scorching, frightening place where everything portends death. But at the same time it is also a place of rest, gentleness and life...Thus in the desert you will find that God is simulataneously present and absent, proximate and remote, visible and invisible, manifest and hidden...He may speak to you today and ignore you ( Read more... )

Me: Have you read the book I gave you for Christmas yet Maebhy?

Maebh: (doubtful) No

Me: The one about Edwina the dinosaur

Maebh: (much more definite) No. I don't like dinosaurs anyway.

That'll teach me to fish for compliments :)

My Women Mystics course finished yesterday and for various reasons it looks like my career at Milltown will be on hiatus for awhile. I have been remiss in posting about my theology course this semester but it has been a very rich, almost frighteningly rich, experience ( Read more... )

Board Games n Booze was fun last night, although the "n booze" part consisted of pinkymonster and I having a glass and a half of wine each. We played two entirely new games and Apples to Apples of course ( Read more... )

My brother, as is traditional, bought me a book to celebrate my exam results. This time it's an anthology of quotations called "The Funniest Thing you Never Said." The same people keep coming up again and again, some of whom I've heard of and some of whom I haven't and now wish to research. One consistent quotee is Gore Vidal. Everytime I see ( Read more... )

Just on the phone to my mother who was recounting how my sister mentioned that before her wedding she asked me whether she should do something about her moustache. Apparently I responded with, "No, but you need to do something about your eyebrows!"

And I think of myself as diplomatic! It may not be instant, but it's certainly karma :)

Walking up the street with Maebh and the other two in the double buggy. I had also brushed and put Maebh's hair in bunches that morning. As we approach home...Me: Maebh will you hold on to the side of the buggy while we cross the road. Oh look your hair is falling out, we'll have to do that again when we get inside ( Read more... )

Ages ago I posted a quotes quiz and never followed up on it. In lieu of actual content that would require typing painful to my RSI I will separate the wheat from the chaff here and maybe give a hint or two.

( The Unresolved )