Why all the post-its?

[misscake]

It's a lovely rainy day here which is so welcome after the sweltering heat of this week. We're having a lazy day - I'm still in my pyjamas - watching old films on abcfamily along with the HP marathon

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[imaginarycircus]

I once had a prof who brought After 8's to class and then made us each put one of the wrappers in our copies of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics so we'd always remember that class when we looked in our books. Sadly I have not opened my copy of the Ethics in about 10 years.

[misscake]

I can't believe you're having a crisis and are calm enough to comment here. That's kind of a cool idea, but yeah that book isn't one you often pick up for a quick re-read even if you're a Johnnie!

[imaginarycircus]

There is nothing I can do right now except sit and wait. I unplugged everything near water and the water stopped coming in. The emergency maintanence guys are on their way and all I can do to keep myself calm is read my lj. David should be getting out of his meeting about now and coming home.

They're going to have to wetvac this water out or something.

[misscake]

Well, let's distract you then! Here's a lovely quote from NE (or EN if you want to be Latin!):

"It is with friendship as it is with the virtues; men are called good in two senses, either as having a virtuous disposition or as realizing virtue in action, and similarly friends when in each other's company derive pleasure from and confer benefits on each other, whereas friends who are asleep or parted are not actively friendly, yet have the disposition to be so."

I like that bit very much. Clearly Aristotle knew all about the internets and how friends might not always be physically close. I like to think Socrates told A and Plato all about it when he got back from his excellent adventure with Bill and Ted.