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i like the cut of your jape.

ccd wasn't fun, it was dismal.

I am glad to know what a jib is, at last.

In HSTNGS, our CCD was on Saturday mornings during grade school (lame) and later on Wednesday evenings for jr. and sr. high (conflicted with ballet classes often). And it was NOT fun; it was boring. Except for the year where they taught all about sex and why you should not have it. That was sort of interesting.

My favorite ever CCD class discussed how, if you have sex before you're married, you'll be a "half Christmas tree."

I defy anyone to make sense of that metaphor.

PS I think that was the year I thought, YEAH, I WANT TO BE A HALF CHRISTMAS TREE.

dammit, I really can't deal with BBcode, can I.

i might have told this story once already.

when i was in sixth grade, my teacher stood up one wednesday noon and dismissed everybody who attended CCD for a special field trip to a nearby abbey. there were twenty-four kids in my classroom. twenty-two of them went.

i did not. neither did m. monahan. m. monahan had down syndrome. i felt very sad that i was not invited, but at least i had m. monahan for company.

until the teacher gently reminded him he was supposed to go, because he was a catholic -- didn't he remember the cross at his neck?

That's awful! They should have politely invited you along at least...

i am sort of glad they didn't, actually, because i probably would have wanted to become a monk. i was very, very impressionable.

remy, you sound like you would have been so charming to be around.

Also, I still envy monks and nuns a bit since their lives sound really peaceful and calm. I know that I would hate it, but it does have a certain simple appeal.

a lot of things have that kind of false appeal, they sound nice described in a sentence but would be hard to stand.

vegetarianism
religious fervor
long term relationships

sobriety

I used to be a vegetarian... omg is my long-term relationship now DOOMED?!

a bracing hike up a mountain on a spring morning

healthy eating
exercise
regular sleeping habits

small business ownership/the entreprenurial drive ;_;

Aw, you love that last one, admit it!

xpost to stet - that sounds like a good way to get a bad sunburn. Plus you could be sleeping in.

getting up early
going to sleep early
saving money
taking a quick nap

a three hour tour

running any distance

apple-picking.

(for a job, i mean, all day every day for weeks on end.)

watching the medical channel

reading Victor Hugo's Les Miserables in unabridged form

moving to a cottage on a remote island and living off the land

gardening

I didn't have enough patience to read all that so please be content with the following missive

I'LL KILL YOU ALL

it does seem appropriate in several ways

Tom, I think you need to go get yourself a massage. You will enjoy it!

getting murdered by an angry mod.

hoo haa

I'm scared now. I'm going to go cower in my bed until daylight.

Good night estela, remy, stet, John, Ned, Dan, everyone else and especially Tom (may he not injure anyone of us...)

good night sara<3

night sara

people

everywhere

get ready

train's a-comin'

jesus christ, i love good friday: empty restaurant by 9pm. earliest night we've had in forever. bump.

bumpsky

woke up to lots of snow again and the roads better be decent tonight because we have a sitter and reservations bump

HEY NOW
HEY NOW NOW

IT BEGINS

Whoa. I'm going to be busy today!

sing this corrosion to me xp

SNOW? FUCK YOU SERIOUSLY WHAT?

t (o_O t)

SO ANGRY

I know. If we can't get to St. Paul tonight to go to Luci I am going to be very ;_;

Okay, all the Sisters thread revivals have prompted this amazing set of stories on this thread about the roommate of RabiesAnGentlemen:

A friend of mine made a conscious decision at the age of 23 or so to go through a goth phase and got a Sisters Of Mercy tattoo.

I made a joke about him going through conscious phases at certain ages -- 24, dipsomania, 25, rehab, and the response:

You're on the right trail. He hasn't got to the rehabilitation phase yet, though sometimes when he's drinking weird Brittany Spears concoctions I urge him to do so (gastric bypass, not safe). But he's always pulling this stuff. For a while he wouldn't stop talking about his denim cape. Then it was his kilt. Then it was "all my friends' wives and girlfriends want to fuck me." He still brings an animal horn of some kind to the bars to drink from instead of the little plastic cups.

Just months before the goth phase he was telling me "I could never get into the Cure because they invented goth! Like six months or a year later he was dumped and listening to the Cure really loud in our living room. Awk-ward!

I...I must know more. But from this safe distance.

The snow is not falling as hard. I am hard-boiling vast numbers of eggs while reading Sisters of Mercy threads and listening to them via youtube.
Meanwhile, J is appealing to me for a game of chess (not that she has a clue how to play).

xpost Okay the animal horn thing is REALLY pushing the bounds of eccentricity.

Hey, YOU live in Minnesota, doesn't most of the state claim they're descended from Horst and Thor, the Viking buddies?