Another day older

[cyrano]

Well crap. Due to the fact that I have a job, and one that doesn't give me constant net access, I do not have a ticket to the ass-numbing LotR trilogy show in December. I'll see if I can score one for the San Jose showing, which appparently goes on sale about a week before the event, and go see it on my own. Which, depending on how much tickets cost, I may pass on because the idea of spending half the day alone in a cinema surrounded by people doesn't sound that appetizing.

The six-day work week is probably going to kill me, but at least the month is already a third of the way over so I only have three weeks left. Then I'll start trying to grab extra hours at the airport.

Like a fool, I've re-applied for a GarouMUSH character. Now impatiently waiting for post-approval book keeping to be done so I can start playing.

And while I'm in a whiny bitchy mood, I'll ask my loyal readers. Given the number of people who insist on doing it, there must be one or two of you who decide not to use your turn signals. Why? Do you feel it's unneccessary since people will be able to tell you're turning anyway? Do you think that if you signal somebody will spitefully try to stop you? Is it just more of a pain in the ass than it's worth? I'm honestly interested in knowing.

Edit
Back when I was first learning How To Be A Witch(tm Raymond Buckland) I heard a quote, something like "Any act of joy or love is a sacrament to me." Can anybody give me the exact quote and preferrably a source?

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[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

ass-numbing LotR trilogy show in December

Oh God. Well at least I now know what my mother will be jabbering about when I visit for the holidays.

As to turn signals: I do occaisionally forget to use them, but this is not a conscious choice. Generally if you drive in LA and not use turn signals, fellow drivers will either hit you or make your driving life miserable by not letting you merge in front of them. It is the only positive feature of using a car here.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm to the point of hitting people yet, just for the sake of a moral victory.
But I often think about it.
And the trilogy is only a one-day gig, so maybe she won't be able to get tickets.

trilogies

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

If she knows about this trilogy thing, she will get a ticket.

She's so fanatical about LotR, that she stepped into an actual movie theater for the first time in 20+ years just to see Two Towers (and even waited in line for tickets). And then kept going back to see it over again.

[technoboggan.livejournal.com]

This Version of The Charge of the Goddess was written by Doreen Valiente, based on an older version found in Aradia: Gospel of the Witches by Charles Leland. There is also a Charge of the God, written by Ray Fagan, Elder of the Woodland Celtic Tradition of Wicca, adapted from Doreen's rendition of the CotG.

"Listen now to the words of the great Mother: she who of old was also called among men Artemis, Astarte, Athene, Dione, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Diana, Arianrhod, Isis, Brigid, and by many other names:

Whenever you have need of anything, once in the month, and better it be when the moon is full, then shall you assemble in some secret place and adore the spirit of me, who am Queen of all Witches. There shall you assemble, you who would learn all sorcery, yet have not won its deepest secrets; to you will I teach things that are yet unknown. And you shall be free from slavery; and as a sign that you be free, you shall be naked in your rites. And you shall dance, sing, feast, make music and love, all in my presence; for mine is the ecstasy of the spirit, and mine is also joy on earth; for my law is love unto all beings. Keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever towards it; let nothing stop you or turn you aside. For mine is the secret door which opens upon the land of youth, and mine is the cup of the wine of life, and the cauldron of Cerridwen, which is the holy grail of immortality. I am the gracious Goddess, who gives the gift of joy unto the hearts of my people. Upon Earth, I give the knowledge of the spirit eternal; and beyond death, I give peace, and freedom, and reunion with those who have gone before. Nor do I demand aught of sacrifice; for behold, I am the Mother of all living, and my love is poured out upon the Earth.

Hear the words of the Star Goddess; the dust of whose feet are the hosts of heaven, and whose body encircles the universe:

I who am the beauty of the green Earth, and the white moon among the stars, and the mystery of the waters, and the desire of the hearts of men and women, call unto your soul: arise, and come unto me. For I am the soul of Nature, who gives life to the universe. From me all things proceed, and unto me all things must return; and before my face, beloved of gods and of people, let your innermost divine self be enfolded in the rapture of the infinite. Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices; for behold: ***all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals***. And therefore let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. And you who think to seek for me, know that your seeking and yearning shall avail you not, unless you know the mystery: if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, then you shall never find it without. For behold, I have been with thee from the beginning, and I am that which is attained at the end of desire. "


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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

You are the most wonderful. I send love unto all being, but you especially.

[zansidhe.livejournal.com]

Well, honey... I'm just planning on going to see the extended versions separately in the theatre... then planning a group trip to see RotK. I can't wait... EEEEEE. Spending ten hours in the theatre is starting to seem less and less appetizing if you know what I mean.

[bumblepudding.livejournal.com]

I think of not using turn signals as a form of 'tough love.' You know the type: good, tough, brutal, conservative love. Turn signals make drivers weak; you should always be attentive behind the wheel, ready to react in an instant to any change in the traffic patterns around you. I dive through your lane and cut you off, you see, for your own physical (and dare I suggest, moral?) edification.

We've had entirely too much truck with safety devices in this great nation; they cost money from hard-working Americans, and they clearly encourage a vicious cycle of dependency. Turn signals are simply another example of this. You pansy.

(I kid, of course. I always use my turn signal.)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Given the number of people who insist on doing it, there must be one or two of you who decide not to use your turn signals. Why?

The only, only time I might not do it (and even then, I usually do) is when I'm turning onto the little block I live on and (here's the important part) there's no one behind me, in front of me, or on either of the cross-streets. Since turn signals are for communication, if there's no one around to see them, then what's the point? But like I said, usually I do it anyway. Habit.

Googling...

[insomnambulist.livejournal.com]

Hey, Chuck!

Googling for "Any act of joy or love is a sacrament to me" returns exactly one link: this here livejournal page. Neat, huh!

Hmm. I fail to signal when I don't think it's going to affect the decisions or safety of anyone else on the road. Those who sometimes fail to signal while weaving in and out of traffic I'll go *out of my way* to not let into a lane by speeding up to fill a hole, or by going slower to not let them pass. Ass hats. And those who are polite on the road I'll go out of my way to accommodate.

People who don't signal aren't the worst species of Evil Driver. The Minivan Moms or SUV Sux0rz who park in the passing lane going exactly the speed limit, and either (1) fail to notice or care when steams of commuters are forced to pass them on the right, or (2) pissed off somehow that people are passing them in the first place -- these are the worst. It takes all the composure I can muster to not lay on my horn as I'm dipping into the #2 lane to pass them, and toss eggs out my sun roof.

SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT YOU BUNCH OF PIG-FUCKING SLOWPOKES.

Hey, this is fun! :-D

-Jason

Re: Googling...

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Hah! Now I know who you are! And it only took a few months. (:
I try not to be the slow guy, or at least be the slow guy to the right.