Miscellany
Sep. 16th, 2005 06:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosYesterday morning as I was getting up at 5:30am, I dropped my glasses and could not find them. My daughter was spending the night with her grandparents, so I couldn't ask her for help. I was groping around on the floor for several minutes and simply could not get my hands on them. So I ended up having to go upstairs and ask for help.
I may have legitimate gripes with my Ex-husband, but there are not many people who would suffer being awakened by an ex at 5:45am, come downstairs, find a pair of glasses and go back to bed without uttering a single grumble or grouch. "This is why it's good to live in a community," was in fact what he said.
Today I'm leaving work around lunchtime to head down to Hob's house for his D&D game, in which I will be making a special appearance as a Blackguard (that's a prestige class antipaladin for the geeks and semi-geeks in the audience). Saturday will be Oktoberfest in September. And lots of good conversation.
For those who love Broadway musicals, the movie My Favorite Year, showbiz in any manifestation, and/or Tim Curry, check out the soundtrack to the musical version of the movie. I got it as a $7.99 download from Real.com, and it's one of the best music purchases I've made in ages: lively, funny, and moving by turns.
And last, before I head off to work and then offline for most of the weekend:
My 20 Random Facts (we'll see if I make it to 20)
1. I was born without a hip socket on one side, but the condition was treated 100% successfully with a combination of braces and casts during the first year and a half of my life. As a consequence of which --
2. I was a poster child for the local Children's Hospital when I was a year old.
3. I was also a "poster child" for the weight training gym where I worked out a few years ago. (One of the least-likely achievements of my life!)
4. I was the last person ordained as a Grail Priest/ess by the Ordo Arcanorum Gradalis before the founder and the council of priests lifted the requirement of ordination to be able to perform the Grail Mass.
5. I cry at the end of The Last Starfighter.
6. I was the first -- and so far only -- member of the Swedenborgian denomination to be admitted to my seminary.
7. I am the owner of one of only two fansites dedidcated to Parker Stevenson (although I haven't done an update in more than a year).
8. The only truly precognitive events I've experienced in my life (a vision and a dream) were directly related to my becoming a mother.
9. I can't remember a time when I was in love with only one person at a time.
10. I had a crush on a female friend when I was a senior in college, but didn't have the courage or the experience to actually act on it.
11. The three times I have been cast in a play, I have been given parts originally written for men: Horatio (in Act I of Hamlet), the Sailor in Hamlet (different production), and the Judge in Whose Life is It Anyway?.
12. I have officiated at one marriage and one funeral.
13. I hold the record for the shortest tenure as Sr. Veteran Trooper in the MacFlandry Regiment of An Tir (SCA), having been promoted into that position and then promoted to Lancer in less than 1 minute.
14. I could read before I started kindergarten. I can't remember learning how to read.
15. I have passed competency tests in French, Spanish, German, and Greek, and quickly lost all competency in any of them.
16. One of my unfulfilled dreams is to make a solo drive up the Pacific coast, from LA to Seattle.
17. I hate flying.
18. I had the worst case of overbite my orthodontist had ever seen. He used to take my models and x-rays to conventions with him. I was in orthodontic treatment for 10 years and the problem was corrected only after having surgery to lengthen my lower jaw.
19. My fantasy jobs are film director and interstellar mediator.
20. I played handbells for most of the years between 5th grade and high school graduation.
Okay, everyone -- I'll see you all late Sunday!
I may have legitimate gripes with my Ex-husband, but there are not many people who would suffer being awakened by an ex at 5:45am, come downstairs, find a pair of glasses and go back to bed without uttering a single grumble or grouch. "This is why it's good to live in a community," was in fact what he said.
Today I'm leaving work around lunchtime to head down to Hob's house for his D&D game, in which I will be making a special appearance as a Blackguard (that's a prestige class antipaladin for the geeks and semi-geeks in the audience). Saturday will be Oktoberfest in September. And lots of good conversation.
For those who love Broadway musicals, the movie My Favorite Year, showbiz in any manifestation, and/or Tim Curry, check out the soundtrack to the musical version of the movie. I got it as a $7.99 download from Real.com, and it's one of the best music purchases I've made in ages: lively, funny, and moving by turns.
And last, before I head off to work and then offline for most of the weekend:
My 20 Random Facts (we'll see if I make it to 20)
1. I was born without a hip socket on one side, but the condition was treated 100% successfully with a combination of braces and casts during the first year and a half of my life. As a consequence of which --
2. I was a poster child for the local Children's Hospital when I was a year old.
3. I was also a "poster child" for the weight training gym where I worked out a few years ago. (One of the least-likely achievements of my life!)
4. I was the last person ordained as a Grail Priest/ess by the Ordo Arcanorum Gradalis before the founder and the council of priests lifted the requirement of ordination to be able to perform the Grail Mass.
5. I cry at the end of The Last Starfighter.
6. I was the first -- and so far only -- member of the Swedenborgian denomination to be admitted to my seminary.
7. I am the owner of one of only two fansites dedidcated to Parker Stevenson (although I haven't done an update in more than a year).
8. The only truly precognitive events I've experienced in my life (a vision and a dream) were directly related to my becoming a mother.
9. I can't remember a time when I was in love with only one person at a time.
10. I had a crush on a female friend when I was a senior in college, but didn't have the courage or the experience to actually act on it.
11. The three times I have been cast in a play, I have been given parts originally written for men: Horatio (in Act I of Hamlet), the Sailor in Hamlet (different production), and the Judge in Whose Life is It Anyway?.
12. I have officiated at one marriage and one funeral.
13. I hold the record for the shortest tenure as Sr. Veteran Trooper in the MacFlandry Regiment of An Tir (SCA), having been promoted into that position and then promoted to Lancer in less than 1 minute.
14. I could read before I started kindergarten. I can't remember learning how to read.
15. I have passed competency tests in French, Spanish, German, and Greek, and quickly lost all competency in any of them.
16. One of my unfulfilled dreams is to make a solo drive up the Pacific coast, from LA to Seattle.
17. I hate flying.
18. I had the worst case of overbite my orthodontist had ever seen. He used to take my models and x-rays to conventions with him. I was in orthodontic treatment for 10 years and the problem was corrected only after having surgery to lengthen my lower jaw.
19. My fantasy jobs are film director and interstellar mediator.
20. I played handbells for most of the years between 5th grade and high school graduation.
Okay, everyone -- I'll see you all late Sunday!
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Date: 2005-09-16 01:55 pm (UTC)We have that in common, I see. :-)
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Date: 2005-09-16 06:00 pm (UTC)And regarding the jaw-lengthening, while I certainly never had that done, I can a) say that it was bad enough having braces for four years, and b) my step-brother had to have the opposite procedure because his jaw kept growing. It was while I was at college and so it's totally strange every time I see him, since it changed his face so much.
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Date: 2005-09-16 05:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-23 02:37 am (UTC)It's a lovely campus. I visited when I was deciding where I was going to seminary. I would have loved to go there, but I couldn't see uprooting my daughter from her entire support system (and mine) or leaving her behind.
Swedenborg wrote in Latin, with the background of an Enlightenment-era scientist. He's a dense, challenging read. There's a lot that I agree with in his writings: that it's the love in a person's heart that matters to God, not doctrine, for example. But I have a hard time with his version of the doctrine of redemption (after death, Christ re-established the balance between Heaven and Hell, allowing true free choice for humanity) and some things like that.
Of all the Christian denominations, it's the closest to home for me.
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Date: 2005-09-18 07:05 am (UTC)