Cute Little Totoro

dogs
spiders
public embarassment
talking to strangers on the phone
giving blood
writing papers
causing the death of an animal through neglect
small children
monsters
collecting things
the elderly
the mentally ill

Here's a real blog entry. It'll be super exciting, I'm sure.

So. I've turned in all my homework in all my classes so far. That's something. For me, anyway. Apparently for Darcey, that's only occasion for condescension.

Oh no. It wasn't condescending at all. My mistake.

We made scones tonight for girly social hour. And looked at wedding dressing. And yesterday I went to my first CLA meeting since last year. That was fun.

Well, that's it for my oh-so-thrilling whirlwind of a life.

Hello all, sorry I haven't updated in a while. I'm sleepy, but I thought I'd put something up, but I didn't want to think. So, here are some words of wisdom from G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, and also, some words of wisdom from G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy translated into "h4X0r". Enjoy!

For this reason (we may call it the fairy godmother philosophy) I never could join the young men of my time in feeling what they called the general sentiment of revolt. I should have resisted, let us hope, any rules that were evil, and with these and their definition I shall deal in another chapter. But I did not feel disposed to resist any rule merely because it was mysterious. Estates are sometimes held by foolish forms, the breaking of a stick or the payment of a peppercorn: I was willing to hold the huge estate of earth and heaven by any such feudal fantasy. It could not well be wilder than the fact that I was allowed to hold it at all. At this stage I give only one ethical instance to show my meaning. I could never mix in the common murmur of that rising generation against monogamy, because no restriction on sex seemed so odd and unexpected as sex itself. To be allowed, like Endymion, to make love to the moon and then to complain that Jupiter kept his own moons in a harem seemed to me (bred on fairy tales like Endymion's) a vulgar anti-climax. Keeping to one woman is a small price for so much as seeing one woman. To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. It was incommensurate with the terrible excitement of which one was talking. It showed, not an exaggerated sensibility to sex, but a curious insensibility to it. A man is a fool who complains that he cannot enter Eden by five gates at once. Polygamy is a lack of the realization of sex; it is like a man plucking five pears in mere absence of mind. The aesthetes touched the last insane limits of language in their eulogy on lovely things. The thistledown made them weep; a burnished beetle brought them to their knees. Yet their emotion never impressed me for an instant, for this reason, that it never occurred to them to pay for their pleasure in any sort of symbolic sacrifice. Men (I felt) might fast forty days for the sake of hearing a blackbird sing. Men might go through fire to find a cowslip. Yet these lovers of beauty could not even keep sober for the blackbird. They would not go through common Christian marriage by way of recompense to the cowslip. Surely one might pay for extraordinary joy in ordinary morals. Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.


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Well, apparently, September 11, 2002 was the first Patriot Day, and all September 11ths have been Patriot Days since September 4, 2003.

The third Monday in April has been Patriot's Day since 1894, and commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord.

Good to know.

How long exactly has September 11 been called "patriot day?" Because that's what my planner calendar says it is.

Also, there's a National Grandparent's Day. And a United Nations day. Why are these holidays so creepy, inane and stupid?

And why did I blog about these? Except for patriot day, they and my reactions to them are neither interesting nor funny.