Buried in Books...
Oct 31, 2003

Happy Halloween everyone! Today, I am dressed as a ranger elf. Unfortunately, I have to work, so I won't be able to take my 2-year-old Green Dragon around trick-or-treating, his grandmother and aunt are going to take him for me. Fortunately, I get to wear my costume to work, yay! I'd love to get a good picture of myself to post and my cutie-pie son too of course. We have ritual tonight too at midnight, that's going to be fun, I'll be getting off of work around 10pm and I hope Jai won't mind if I go straight to her house (arriving early) as my job is on the same outskirts of town that her house is. Today is all about fun mixed with a few hours of work unfortunately *shrugs* I wish I had asked for Halloween off. BTW, for those of you who wonder over the word ritual, I will not be sacrificing anything, When people go to Samhain rituals, they usually do not sacrifice people and animals, nor do they put glass and poisons in candy to kill children for Satan. It's not even about Satan. It's about the earth, nature, and being one with each other even as we are all individuals whose differences are to be appreciated. I'm not wiccan, but wiccans and satanists (the latter in the hollywood sense of the word) are not the only people that celebrate some form of the thinning of the boundaries between worlds or those that have passed away, just as they are not the only ones, nor indefinitely the firsts to celebrate the solstices, equinoxes, and sabbats.

I really don't know too much about the rituals involved, except what they usually entail (even if I don't know the precise reasonings), I just know that I have fun gathering with my fellow open-minded spiritualist friends to celebrate life and spirituality.

Back to the title of the entry though...I have been ignoring my journals for sooooooo long ^^" I'm sorry to any who might be regular readers and given me up as hopeless. I really have been buried in books lately, when I'm not studying and writing papers and taking tests, I'm reading material for classes. Almost every spare moment I have is spent reading. I have to read a chapter a week in both my Anthropology and Astronomy books (believe me, I can't get away with not reading them, I would fail the tests--it's a good thing that I'm interested in the subject matter lol), those are at least 20 pages a piece, sometimes much more. I also have to read "The Mists of Avalon" which is the book I chose from a list of many to teach my fantasy and mythology class about, this is due in early December (where I'm supposed to present my lecture on it). I have over 600 pages left to read in that book (It's over 800 pages long). I also have to read a book called "Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts" I don't know how long that one is, but I have a book report due for it on Nov 28th (give or take a few days, I need to check the deadline again), and I haven't even gotten ahold of a copy of it yet!! Reading, reading, reading, and more reading. I feel quite literally, buried in books.

So, I will be sparse attending my journals until early-mid december. I even had to go on As Can in DII, the writing group I am a part of, I dread having to go on a full LOA if at all possible. I need to crit Domy's flash piece, I've already read it. So much to do, so little time to do it in...

Oh, and don't ask, but I was Mongolian in one of my past lives--and a male at that. I had a very depressed wife, and my job entailed digging in the tundra (or at least I imagine from what the reader described--cold, hard to dig in, and like a desert in that it had very little vegetation). I died of a heart-attack a very lonely man (I was out far away from my family very often in order to provide for them). I was also overly serious and had a hard time being anything but...I think most of my friends in this life would tell you that I'm more than making up for that last part now (because I can never be totally serious)! Hey, I'm not saying I swear to it, it's just an interesting little tidbit ^_~

--Saronai Aldaríon