am very busy. I need things from people in order to stay on a schedule. People are not getting back to me. The holidays have kinda screwed us on this and I didn;t catch it beforehand. bad project manager.

I was flipping through channels Sunday night and came upon that new show with Kyle Maclachlan -- there was a female character played by somebody who looked so familiar --- turns out it was Constance Zimmer who play Sister Lilly Watters in Joan of Arcadia.

The stumbling block is Christianity and the individualism that naturally occurs from belief in God as Sovereign of the universe.

Jesus Brian: You are all individuals!

Worshippers: YES, WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!!!

Atheist/Infidel: Er...I'm not.

Don't they feed you at boarding school? Or must you bring along decade-old cake to re-ice?

I pretty much assumed that they didn't feed the kids lashings of chocolate cake and candy. And the wee'uns presumably wouldn't have been allowed to go gallivanting off to the shops to buy sweets (and, anyway, there wouldn't be much in the way of mass-produced sweets anywhere), they'd be stuck on the school grounds (wherever the hell the school was), so if they wanted sweets, it would involve planning, and care packages.

Hell, come to that people sometimes got care packages when I was at University! Fisher and Donaldson had several different hampers of OBSCENELY delicious cream cakes & chocolates that you could have delivered to your darling son or daughter during exam week/birthday/whatever.

God, they did the most fantastic coffee-flavoured fresh cream pastry things. To. Die. For. Mmmmm...

This is my assumption.

If romance novels are to be believed, they don't feed you in boarding school. Just gruel and stuff. Your parents have to send food for you to survive and also stuff like coal to heat your room. If you are the hero, your neglectful guardian doesn't do this, so you forge close friendships with similarly abandoned heirs to Dukedoms, and grow up to have adventures, often including spying on Napoleon. If Enid Blyton is to be believed, they feed you fine, and tuck boxes are for cakes. There is a suspiciously large amount of anchovy paste. Both pictures of boarding school food could be accurate, as the stories are set in different centuries.

people sometimes got care packages when I was at University!

Oh yes! Mine were Christmas cake, milo and overproof rum. Mmm.

Trudy, just think Harry Potter. It's not complicated, really. You'll get the hang of Other Countries any time now.

I stayed home from work today after a rough night with the stomach bug. The good news that I am actually hungry today, even though I am not 100%. Somehow the bean burritos I am craving probably aren't a wise choice.

Happy Birthday Shrift!

Ah yes, Happy Birthday Shrift!

I'll second Trudy's one free smack, so if you are later getting shoved in to the backseat of a black-and-white crown victoria on charges of assault you'll have the comfort of knowing that at least two people are sitting back and thinking, "hey they should let her have that smack for free".

Fuck, I haven't been sharpening my sword. I don't even have a sword.

I have plenty, but the stupid referees won't let me sharpen them.

Trudy, just think Harry Potter. It's not complicated, really. You'll get the hang of Other Countries any time now.

I really am kidding about these things you know.

(Except the Gerrys, that was real -- they aren't actually a threat anymore)

people sometimes got care packages when I was at University!

They were big for finals weeks at my schools. Little buckets with granola bars, candy bars, cookies, crackers, etc. They were nice to get.