This week
Has been interesting for work.
Last Friday, not yesterday the kid I work with - and have had a lot of trouble working with - came in, clearly high on something. My boss thought he'd been in a bar fight: his hand was cut up and he'd taken some damage to his cheek. He went around hugging everyone and asked one of our regular temps for a kiss after the hug. He was in an unusually good mood. And talking a mile a minute. So the owner pulled him aside and spent about 15 minutes negotiating a way for him to get home safely. Which I guess he did. When the temp asked him if he was on anything, he said just Vicodan for the pain. She said something about 'taking one too many!' But my experience of Vicodan was that it put me to sleep. It didn't turn me into a squirrel. But every one reacts differently.
Monday his mom called in, told my boss he was in the hospital for a week. Later in the afternoon A (my boss) came and told me he wasn't coming back. Seems he was filing an L&I claim, that he was hurt at work. But no one saw it, he didn't say anything about being hurt on the day that he claimed (the Wednesday before last Friday) so the owner's not buying it.
ON the magick front I'm re-reading The Book of Exhilaration and Mastery. I've got some goals in mind, mundane but they really could be helped with this. I've also started The Book of Atem. I got it almost a year ago when Phil Farber (the author) held a workshop here. He's holding another one this June and I plan to be there. His area is open handed magick. I made a list of all the OH techniques I know, though don't always practice. There's really quite a lot out there. Some traditional practices (the MPR and Rising on the planes) fit into my definition of OH magick.
I want to try to get into a regular practice of OHM. The Mastery technique is some thing that I can do a few times a week, even daily for my goals. And I've got some variations on Phil's work, some of my own ideas. I'm good at the new idea part. Not quite so good at actual practice.
Last Friday, not yesterday the kid I work with - and have had a lot of trouble working with - came in, clearly high on something. My boss thought he'd been in a bar fight: his hand was cut up and he'd taken some damage to his cheek. He went around hugging everyone and asked one of our regular temps for a kiss after the hug. He was in an unusually good mood. And talking a mile a minute. So the owner pulled him aside and spent about 15 minutes negotiating a way for him to get home safely. Which I guess he did. When the temp asked him if he was on anything, he said just Vicodan for the pain. She said something about 'taking one too many!' But my experience of Vicodan was that it put me to sleep. It didn't turn me into a squirrel. But every one reacts differently.
Monday his mom called in, told my boss he was in the hospital for a week. Later in the afternoon A (my boss) came and told me he wasn't coming back. Seems he was filing an L&I claim, that he was hurt at work. But no one saw it, he didn't say anything about being hurt on the day that he claimed (the Wednesday before last Friday) so the owner's not buying it.
ON the magick front I'm re-reading The Book of Exhilaration and Mastery. I've got some goals in mind, mundane but they really could be helped with this. I've also started The Book of Atem. I got it almost a year ago when Phil Farber (the author) held a workshop here. He's holding another one this June and I plan to be there. His area is open handed magick. I made a list of all the OH techniques I know, though don't always practice. There's really quite a lot out there. Some traditional practices (the MPR and Rising on the planes) fit into my definition of OH magick.
I want to try to get into a regular practice of OHM. The Mastery technique is some thing that I can do a few times a week, even daily for my goals. And I've got some variations on Phil's work, some of my own ideas. I'm good at the new idea part. Not quite so good at actual practice.