Aw damn, I wish I'd known this Friday!

[jedusor]

Orange is in fact just as Irish as green is. Green represents the Catholic Irish, while orange is the Protestant Irish. I am definitely wearing orange next St. Patty's Day.

Yesterday:
-"Good Night and Good Luck" at church. It was... wow. I need to watch it about four more times in a row, and then reread "Inherit the Wind."
-Baskin Robbins and random Brookside stores with slightly_wrong.
-NaNoWriMo followup group at the Roasterie with kat_nano. I really need to set aside more time to write.
-"Pirates of the Caribbean" for the umpteen-hundredth time. It never, ever gets old.
-French homework, which I hadn't done at all over spring break. It wasn't hard to catch up, though- there wasn't really anything new in this chapter except some past tense stuff that I'd mostly figured out for myself.

Today:
-Jogging in the rain to the Chihuahua Song at 8 AM. That made me very happy.
-Spring break is officially over.
-Karen's appointed an interim writing center supervisor until they can hire a real one. This means I should probably start doing more working on handouts and reading the Writing Center Journal and less catching up on Achewood archives during work hours.
-Spectrum Joe cut his hair. He was a lot prettier with the long hair.
-Jefferson College kept cutting out during French, so Ms. Brandt pushed the quiz back to Friday, to give them enough class time to prepare. Yay.
-I saw the funniest, most horrible video EVER, and now I can't find it again. Some guy making fun of Cheney for hunting quail that were bred to be shot, and going to try it for himself. It had the quote, "It's like an Easter egg hunt. Of death." Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Ergh, my brain is trying to switch to French mode. I've almost started talking to my family in French twice today, and I keep muttering things in French under my breath without even realizing it.

EDIT: Oh, and the Best Grudging Compliment By A Slightly Homophobic Person award goes to Stephen, who admitted today that Kyle is, "um, symmetrical."

Comments

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

Are Irish Protestants into celebrating saints?

When my Dad first left the Catholic Church and became a Pentecostal, he wouldn't go into the family's church or even into my Catholic high school, because there were statues of saints in there, which he said constituted idol worship.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

I shall do more research on the subject. I've got a year, after all. I think Irish Protestants do celebrate St. Patty's Day in Ireland, though I have no solid evidence to back this.

[draughanten.livejournal.com]

I coulda told you that about the Irish darlin... but St Paddy's is a Catholic Irish holiday...

[imagines.livejournal.com]

And white is for the hope of peace between the two. Hence the pretty colour-clashing flag. :D

Goodnight and Good Luck = awesome movie. Also the first and last movie I watched with Thomas. No fair, brain. Stop THINKING about it... I need to watch it at least a second time, so as to better understand what the hell happened in it.

SYMMETRICAL. *snicker* ...have you mentioned a Kyle and a Stephen to me? They sound like possible sources of amusement...

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Kyle (http://www.spectrum.mcckc.edu/2006-03-08/Staff/bios/kyle.htm). Warning: worst picture of him ever taken.

Steven (http://www.spectrum.mcckc.edu/2006-03-08/Staff/bios/steven.htm), whose name I evidently cannot spell. That's a pretty bad picture of him, too. He's a lot prettier than that, and his hair is longer, and he doesn't look like he's nine years old.

Damn, Ray FAILED on the staff photos. O.o I should bring the digital camera in and get some decent pics of our pretty Spectrum boys. (Sharai and I have decided to make a Spectrum boys calendar, with those two, Joe (http://www.spectrum.mcckc.edu/2006-03-08/Staff/bios/JoeSta.htm"), and John (http://www.spectrum.mcckc.edu/2006-03-08/Staff/bios/John.htm).)

[imagines.livejournal.com]

Oooh, THAT Kyle and Steven. Damn, I want to see Kyle in real life! That's a "bad" photo, yet he's still hot? o.O

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh, that's a really bad photo. I think he was stoned that day. He's much, much hotter in real life. (He has a brother, too, who looks JUST like him only with black hair.)

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll check it out before next year. Thanks for the info.

you sound pretty advanced for your age

I'm not at all. I took French I last fall and am currently taking French II. The thing is, I'm a very obsessive person, and my brain decided to LEARN FRENCH NOW NOW NOW, so I spend a lot of time at it.