On a plus note, I feel mostly caught up on my Latin. I still don’t have the various pronouns completely memorized but I’m not floundering.
I went out and bought a decent sized hardcover Latin-English dictionary and a Latin Grammar book this last weekend too. I’m either dedicated or a consumer…
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You Know You Are From Seattle If…..
1. Have no concept of humidity without precipitation.
2. Throw an aluminum can in the trash and feel guilty.
3. Use the words 'sun breaks' and know what it means.
4. Know more than 10 ways to order a cup of coffee.
5. Complain about Californians as you sell your house to one for twice its value.
6. Never go camping without waterproof matches and ponchos.
7. Half your friends work at Microsoft or Boeing.
8. Know the exact location of fifteen drive-thru espresso stands in your neighborhood.
9. Stand on a deserted street corner in the rain waiting for the “Walk” signal.
10. Know more people who own boats than air conditioners.
11. Obey all traffic laws except “Keep right except to pass.”
12. Can taste the difference between Starbucks, Seattle's Best Coffee, and Veneto's.
13. Consider swimming an indoor sport.
14. Consider that if it has no snow or has not recently erupted, it's not a real mountain.
15. Know exactly what they mean by “Today's forecast: showers followed by rain” and “Tomorrow's forecast: rain followed by showers.” (Just like Eskimos are said to have twelve words for snow.)
16. Can tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese, and Thai food.
17. In the winter, go to work in the dark, come home in the dark, and only have an 8 hour day.
18. Understand what people mean when they say “pop.” (Translation: soda)
19. Consider a floating bridge a pain in the butt, not an engineering marvel.
20. Know what lutefisk is.
21. Feel overdressed wearing a suit to a really nice restaurant.
22. Can point to at least two volcanoes, even if you can't see through the cloud cover.
23. Personally know someone from Alaska.
24. Feel like you've grown up with Bill Gates and can't figure out why people can be so mean to him.
25. Think people who use umbrellas are either wimps or tourists.
26. Find a wallet with $500 and give it back to the owner.
27. Know how to pronounce: Sequim, Puyallup, Rainier, and Issaquah.
28. Used to live somewhere else but won't admit it publicly.
29. Know the difference between Chinook, Coho, and Sockeye salmon.
30. Knew immediately that the view out Frasier's window was fake.
31. Ever ordered a half caff/decaf, nonfat mocha Grande with raspberry whip (or know what it is).
32. Attended a wedding where the bride and groom registered at REI.
33. Are amazed at an accurate weather forecast.
34. Heard someone ran their car off the freeway and asked if they drowned.
35. Put on your shorts when the temperature gets above 50, but still wear your hiking boots and parka.
36. Switch to your sandals when it gets above 60, but keep the socks on.
37. Have actually used your mountain bike on a mountain.
38. Would be miffed if the store was out of your favorite brand of water.
Today was a much lower key day compared to yesterday. I stayed up until about 3:00 am last night so I didn’t get up until around 10:00 or so this morning. R and I hung out for a while and I made us breakfast. Afterwards, R cut my hair (and did a nice job as always).
This afternoon, we went to the monthly Gnostic Mass at the local OTO body and got to see a mostly new mass team. I believe that the Priestess hadn’t done it before in public but I do know that the Deacon and both of the Children were doing their first mass. It went well and I’m glad that I got out to it today.
R stayed behind to attend a workshop that the OTO hosting on Domestic Violence along with a dinner. I headed over to the comic book store and picked up some missing issues of The Red Star, one of the comics that I occasionally read along with the latest issue of Global Frequency. I can’t seem to get my missing back issues of that one.
After that, I picked up one of those little portable writing desks that sit in your lap. Sounds pretty mundane but I’ve been getting pretty tired of balancing my latin homework and textbooks in my lap without any support. Someday I’ll get a real desk that doesn’t have a computer already sitting on it for such things.
At home after all of this, I finally decided to watch that Reign: The Conqueror show that R has been watching and enjoying. Wow, that show is a TRIP! It looks a lot like Aeon Flux (which makes sense given the people involved) but is essentially a retelling of the story of Alexander the Great, at least in inspiration.
This is definitely a keeper for this Hermetic magician into the classics. ;-)
Here is a brief blurb from Amazon:
This bizarre reworking of the story of Alexander the Great features character designs by Peter Chung (Aeon Flux). It’s a singularly weird mixture of anime conventions, sci-fi and fantasy elements, special effects, and muddled ancient history. Alexander’s comrades and future generals, including Hephaestion and Ptolemy, have been recast as effete courtiers. Bucephalus (”Ox-head”), his steed, is a flesh-eating monster. His mother is a Medea-esque sorceress, and his tutor Aristotle has the inevitably spunky niece, Cassandra. The magician-disciples of Pythagoras appear and disappear, searching for the “Platohedron.” The elongated, mannerist figures bear Chung’s distinctive stamp. The women wear revealing robes; the men run around in bits of armor and codpieces. Reign is slated for the Adult Swim bloc on the Cartoon Network, but editing this violent series to American broadcast standards will pose real challenges. (Unrated; suitable for ages 17 and older: violence, nudity, alcohol use, grotesque imagery, sexual situations) –Charles Solomon
I actually saw the DVD of this at the comic book store. Now I’m thinking that I should pick it up to keep…
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