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Collections, protections, and personal rituals.
Many pagans and any sensible magical practitioner will have their own rituals and practices for protection, warding, and psychic hygiene. People carry rocks or mojo bags, etch bindrunes and sigils, smudge with sage or other herbs or incenses, sprinkle blessed water or oil, or other more elaborate sequences. At least one individual I know likes to ( Read more... ) -
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Aaaaargghghg my life has been pretty awesome right now most (Got my DIPLOMA, almost done with my Nursing Assistant Certification course, got promoted to MOD on my favorite internet forum), but right now all I'm trying to figure out is why I'm still awake at 5am in the morning ( Read more... ) -
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Pokemon has been around long enough that the people who liked pokemon as a kid and still do are old enough and secure enough to not be ashamed they still like a kids thing.
As someone who never stopped liking the pokeymans, I think this is pretty cool. As is the fact that there are probably second-generation pokemon-playing kids. -
A question completely unrelated to my current academic predicament.
Hey, why aren't there any comics or graphic novels or anime about fencing? The modern sport, ideally. Japan would probably rather write a manga about kendo, I suppose, but there seems to be at least a tertiary interest in it you look at things like Le Chevalier D'Eon, Utena, historical stuff or faux-historical set in Europe, etc. However, there's a ( Read more... ) -
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I think it's time for another what's-going-on-in-my-life update. Hello!
I'm graduating from UMBC in December, if all goes according to plan. If all goes brilliantly according to plan, I will then begin in the spring getting my master's in Nursing from the University of Baltimore, downtown. This will be shiny, and make me employable. Also, medicine ( Read more... ) -
Oh boy! OH BOY!
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An update from me.
Some of life has been stressful, but lots of it has also been good. I don't like the way my school schedule has me awake far-too-early in the morning every day of the week, but I do like the big gaps of time between morning and evening classes. Lots of free time to study, have fun, wander about campus, or go on field trips and adventures. My grades ( Read more... ) -
Oh god why am I posting a meme on livejournal.
"Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one reason why I like you. Then put this in your own journal, and spread the love."
Responses will go up sometime Monday evening/night. In the meantime I'm writing THE PAPER.