neowiccan ([info]neowiccan) wrote,
@ 2009-10-30 22:05:00
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happy samhain!
or halloween or whatever you celebrate.
we've been invited to a few delightful parties, but i think i'll end up staying home. david and brian will both be here, and dylan wants to go to a party when he gets off work and may need a DD so i should be here for that. and it's the proto-demos ritual on sunday.
the last time i stayed home on samhain i got horribly lonesome, something so rare for me as to be almost never, but this time i'll have guys. i'm busy enough right now that a day at home, both for my own devotions and to hang out with the menfolk sounds utterly divine. i've got a huge pork shoulder marinating, and at some point will do an ancestor ritual and some divination, maybe carve a pumpkin, and get a lot of couch time with movies and/or boston legal (my latest addiction, i'm finally over house.)
bo had a bad week, but has been WAY better the last two days, enough to be naughty, sassy and obnoxious. it's awesome to see, even if he caused me to get up in his grill last night and holler 'goddamn it, i'm busting my ass trying to fix your friggin' feet, you can stand IN THE BUCKET FOR FIFTEEN GODDAMN MINUTES you lousy piece o' shit pony!' he put his foot in the bucket and stood tensely with his body strained away from me, one wide eye and one nervous ear trained on the crazy woman with the pitchfork cleaning his stall and muttering.
hee!
i started macbeth with 9-12s today. one of them informed me solemnly that there is no such thing as a good witch. i smiled benevolently while several of the other kids protested indignantly. one of them even informed him that there are still witches today, and i added gently that they might even look just like me. it is good to have small people fighting the good fight whilst i sip a caramel latte. even if their perspective is based on harry potter and glinda. i'm loving my 9-12s this semester. my teenagers are inexorably silent, but my 9-12s are dynamic and excited and loving me back.
off to see what trouble mr pony's going to give me tonight!
:) khairete
suz (thrilled to finally get to use this awesome icon yoinked from brigidsblest. frank langella!!!!!)


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[info]morriganson
2009-10-31 03:25 am UTC (link)
that's bela lugosi, not frank langela....wait WAIT!

it hadn't animated yet.


Edited at 2009-10-31 03:27 am UTC

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[info]neowiccan
2009-10-31 03:35 am UTC (link)
goof.
like i wouldn't know one of my best boyfriends!
;) khairete
suz

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[info]ochorios
2009-10-31 04:29 pm UTC (link)
I'm so sad right now. Nicholas is 6 1/2, it wouldn't be too terribly long before *he* could be in that class but we're here and you're there...

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[info]neowiccan
2009-11-02 02:30 am UTC (link)
omg how awesome it would be to get your boysies! but i'd want you lot at one of my living room classes so i could have you too! sometimes the most fun of those is when the kids oodle off to hang out and i get time with the moms.
:) khairete
suz

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[info]hardblue
2009-10-31 08:49 pm UTC (link)
I have been interested in discussions over Shakespeare's religious status, whether he was very Christian minded in his plays or not. Macbeth would seem to favor the affirmative, and lead one to suspect that there are no good withches in Shakespeare's world, or are there some in his comedies that you know of?

Have fun! :)

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[info]neowiccan
2009-11-02 02:35 am UTC (link)
he certainly loved greek mythology, but i'd be shocked if he was a closet pagan as some like to suggest, and certainly he wasn't pro-witch. i think it's only in modern times that we've warped the word witch into something positive.
and even that's kinda funny considering 'twist' is one of the possible roots for the word!
he was playing for his patronage, and james I was anti-witch for sure. i can't think of any good witches in his plays, although he clearly loved magickal creatures and there are plenty of those.
if you hear any different, holler!
khairete
suz

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