Today is:

The Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola,

The Birthday of Harry Potter

and

Lammas Eve!

Why, it's almost more than one day can stand!

So, to properly celebrate this day, tonight, go out with your telescopes and find the star Sirius, since the rising of the  Dog Star is what marks the beginning of Lammas. Then, think about how awesome Sirius Black was ( Read more... )

My co-worker, we'll call her Ali, is a very ardent atheist. She and I talk quite often, and I think she forgets that I am very much not an atheist, I think because I don't fit her image of an "ardent believer"-- likely, in that I'm not always quoting the Bible, not always talking to her about Jesus, and am, in her words, "very intelligent."  We'll ( Read more... )

Vivid dreams last night.

In the first, I found a snow leopard cub on the side of the road, and adopted him, bring him back to the townhouse. He got along very well with Kali and Spiffy, and we built a "tree" out of two by fours for him to play on. He was, as all snow leopards, quite lovely, and I remember one scene where he was hanging off my arm ( Read more... )

I've been reading David Goddard's The Tower of Alchemy. I've had it for a while here on my work shelves, and when the email server went offline earlier (which screwed up other programs as well), I pulled it down and started reading.

It's good. If I were the editor, I woulda said "Look, you can't talk about the student performing a mudra all of a ( Read more... )

My day started out rather crappily. I've been thinking, for over two months now, that the Foreign Service Exam was on Friday, April 29th. So I dug out my "ticket" today, only to read that I was scheduled for Saturday, the 23rd. Yeah, as in last Saturday. I was rather put out with myself, as you can well imagine ( Read more... )

It's strange. Despite how much I got done in the winter, I still feel like I was hibernating the whole time, only now waking up as the flowers start blooming again. I love winter, and yet it's almost like looking back on a time of since-cured-amnesia. Like remembering who and what I am all over again ( Read more... )

This will be the first time in . . .6 years I didn't really celebrate Mardi Gras. I did try a Chantico at work-- Yummy ( Read more... )