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Nabbed from the Spider (aka Reclaiming Wicca) mailing list:

( And it's very funny! )

It reminds me so much of a bit someone did at the Oregon Country Fair a few years ago, talking about how all the kids today are hooked on rugs. Starts with little area rugs, and soon you're mainlining wall-to-wall!!

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I should probably tell you why I'm at home, eh??

Had allergies this morning. For some reason I can't fathom, they were far worse than usual. I took a wad of toilet paper with me to the bus stop--what I thought would last me until work, was useless halfway to the bus stop. On the buses I used up several really scratchy paper towels. At work, it got even worse. I was going three times slower than usual because I kept having to stop and blow my nose. I took another zyrtec but it wasn't helping. I was beginning to become out of it and dizzy. At one point I sat down to get a chart and literally started to nod off--thankfully I snapped out of it before I was caught. I was so light-headed that I began to worry I would faint or something. I kept sitting down and staring into space before I would remember what I was doing. I pulled the wrong numbered folders several times for chart assembly.

So I took an early break and sat down, figuring maybe it would go away. My supervisor came upstairs, because I'd been on break for twenty minutes. I explained the situation and she told me to go home. Very firmly. I called my dad and woke him up and he came and got me, which was very sweet of him.

Goddamnit. I had the appointment today to get contacts. So much for that. Also wanted to see a movie later on....I might anyway.

I took two benadryl. Not as sleepy as I thought I would be. Still sleepy though. Nap sounding good right about now, but I don't know where I'll be able to find a place to sleep with people home.

So that's twice that I've had to not work because of allergies. This year's allergies suck. Allegra and zrytec just aren't working anymore. Perhaps I'll try one of the things you stick up your nose. I think they're based on steroids, I have no idea. I also don't know why I'm more allergic to dragon_mintz's cats than my parents' cat or 5minutelimit's cat.

In any case, it's frustrating the hell out of me and my poor sore red nose.

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Wiccan Holy Crap! You're taking -23 souls with you to hell!

-55 to -20 You dont believe in god. But you believe in Mother Earth, Mystic Energies beyond standard scientific energies, and you may even believe in or practice a little magick. Or you could just be a stoner looking for an excuse to get high with your 'coven'

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 73% on Idiocy

Link: The Very Offensive Religion Test written by youallwantme on Ok Cupid

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Stolen from valliegirl: ( Longish Meme Thingie )

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I want an iPod. Badly. I've been seesawing on the idea: Part of me keeps thinking of other mp3 players, cheaper ones, ones with radios in them, some even with more memory. But dood. I'm not terribly good with electronic devices, yes? I have yet to figure out how to punctuate when I text message someone with my cell phone. If I accidentally change the font size I have to have Tyson fix it because I can never find where to change it (you'd think it would be in settings, but no). Every time I need to change something on my digital camera, it takes a bit for me to find it.

But the damn iPod? Someone had told me that you could move stuff by sliding your finger around the little circle thingie on the front. With just that knowledge, I figured out how to get around on one on display at costco. "Oh look, playlists! Ooh, you can list things by album! Neato! Damn, this thing is easy to use."

I cannot deny that they also just look spiffy. The fact that that even comes into consideration is actually sort of annoying. "Goddamn," I tell myself, "everyone has a freaking iPod because they look 'cool.' I'm a sheep! Do I really want to pay extra just because I like how it looks?" Well, geez, that's how I pick my damn clothes, right? Gah.

My dad couldn't figure out why I just don't buy one. "Hell," he said, "You have a hell of a lot more disposable income than I do." Well, sure, but I'm trying to get into an apartment, hello? Then, I told him, "You realize, the cost of an iPod on sale is a whole week's income for me." His response? "Oh."

Grrr.

Gimme an iPod. Takes up so much less room than a discman and a cd wallet, goddamnit. And then I could carry pretty much my entire CD collection with me everywhere I go, and that is so damn cool.

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Harp Klezmer music!! Oh man, that rocks.

I love how adaptable even lever harps are. Middle-eastern music sounds fantastic on a harp as well--David Helfand from Eugene plays middle-eastern as well as Israeli music on his.

Klezmer music is sort fascinating and neato because even the happy dance tunes are in minor key. But then, if you'd been a Jewish person in Eastern Europe between the Diaspora and now, you'd write all your music in minor key, too. Or as the "shit happens" religion tshirt puts it: "Why does this shit keep happening to us?"

Ashley's been looking at wedding music. I'm trying to get her to hire a harpist or a group with a harpist. *lol* She likes Pachelbel's Canon in D, which, good lord! Every harp player on the planet plays a slightly different arrangement of that one. Personally, I always wanted "She Moved Through the Fair" at a wedding/etc, but I always think it's probably an odd choice because it's actually a really sad song, where the girl dies and then visits him as a ghost and tells him "...it won't be long, love, 'til our wedding day," which is kinda creepy now that I think about it. *shrug* It's a really pretty tune and sounds wonderful on the harp.

I really should be asleep.