poetic dragons
Apr. 23rd, 2003 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salixbabylonIt's St. George's Day! It's Shakespeare's birthday!
Time to get eaten by a dragon and write a sonnet about it.
Or something.
My husband and dog left me last night, returning Thursday. All alone in the house. i don't think i'll ever be a grown woman until i can sleep in a house alone without jumping at every little thing. i hate feeling like a terrified child, clutching the flashlight at every creak and gust of wind.
Needless to say, after about half my required beauty sleep, i'm not making much sense today.
i totally freaked earlier this week about "coming out" as a witch to a new friend. i have such a difficult time not sharing all of who i am, and i forget that spiritual beliefs are often best left unspoken. people are wary of anything with as bad a reputation as witchcraft, and i can't say i blame them - i was wary, too. i just wish there was a way to say "i've been through a lot of self examination, and i don't have answers for anyone but myself, here and now. i may even change my mind later in life. this is just what feels best to me, now." and i've no more intention to proselytize my path than i do/would bisexuality. perhaps my "if you're questioning, why not think about it and maybe try it out" attitude is too missionary for some people.
i just don't know. i try not to take myself or my beliefs too seriously. it hurts to think someone might not want to talk to me anymore because i answered their question honestly about what i do for Easter.
and i can't decide if it's acceptable to feel this way or simply more evidence of insecurity and having failed to grow up in some essential ways.
reading Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter series and enjoying it...
fresh strawberries...
reading tea leaves tea-party tonight...
going through old cassettes and remembering why i don't listen to them anymore...
enrolled for Fall Semester classes - blech!
trying to work up the courage to submit VS to places...
Contemplative, tired, disappointed, trying to find the energy to get going today...
OH - and i don't get how to refer to another lj-user and have their name come up as a link. Help?
Time to get eaten by a dragon and write a sonnet about it.
Or something.
My husband and dog left me last night, returning Thursday. All alone in the house. i don't think i'll ever be a grown woman until i can sleep in a house alone without jumping at every little thing. i hate feeling like a terrified child, clutching the flashlight at every creak and gust of wind.
Needless to say, after about half my required beauty sleep, i'm not making much sense today.
i totally freaked earlier this week about "coming out" as a witch to a new friend. i have such a difficult time not sharing all of who i am, and i forget that spiritual beliefs are often best left unspoken. people are wary of anything with as bad a reputation as witchcraft, and i can't say i blame them - i was wary, too. i just wish there was a way to say "i've been through a lot of self examination, and i don't have answers for anyone but myself, here and now. i may even change my mind later in life. this is just what feels best to me, now." and i've no more intention to proselytize my path than i do/would bisexuality. perhaps my "if you're questioning, why not think about it and maybe try it out" attitude is too missionary for some people.
i just don't know. i try not to take myself or my beliefs too seriously. it hurts to think someone might not want to talk to me anymore because i answered their question honestly about what i do for Easter.
and i can't decide if it's acceptable to feel this way or simply more evidence of insecurity and having failed to grow up in some essential ways.
reading Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter series and enjoying it...
fresh strawberries...
reading tea leaves tea-party tonight...
going through old cassettes and remembering why i don't listen to them anymore...
enrolled for Fall Semester classes - blech!
trying to work up the courage to submit VS to places...
Contemplative, tired, disappointed, trying to find the energy to get going today...
OH - and i don't get how to refer to another lj-user and have their name come up as a link. Help?
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Date: 2003-04-23 09:14 am (UTC)added you to my friends list!
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Date: 2003-04-23 12:25 pm (UTC){lj user="salixbabylon"}
EXCEPT you don't use the curly brackets {} but rather the html tag marker <> to bracket it...
it hurts to think someone might not want to talk to me anymore because i answered their question honestly about what i do for Easter
...and the people who will ultimately matter will want to talk to you...lots....
and isn't Lord Peter just the best?? *sigh*
take care of yourself until hubby and pooch return...
blessed be,
Olivia
p.s. What are you taking this fall?
p.p.s. Just submit it, already... it's good!!
thank you!
Date: 2003-04-23 05:01 pm (UTC)Feeling better about the friend thing... Not sure why, but i'll take it anyway.
Lord Peter - if i wasn't married and he wasn't fictional... i'd so swoon for him! i swoon anyway!
for Fall i'm taking Collection Development (yae!) and Info. Technology Tools and Applications (retch) (web page development, mostly). And I'm going to reduce my work to part time, I hope, so I don't die.
How about you? Are you teaching AND in school? For a PhD or something?
Heheheh... working on html version to send out. Hand-coding takes a while for me!
Such sweetness! Thank you!