Oh, and no, I don't think cloistering dictates the job title. Many, many nuns in my program lived independently...apart from a mother house. Though, I'm not sure about monks.

It's actually true, in Catholicism. Monks are cloistered and Friars are not. Though, medeivally speaking, it got messy as monasteries became major landholders and they needed outrider monks to visit the property.

Initially all nuns were cloistered.

Kat, that sounds really amazing. Man, I wish I had some vacation time, or would within the next four months. I really need a shift of some sort.

Hmm. I could never actually be a monk without the fighting thing. One of the krav junior instructors went on a long trip to China last year, and went from temple to temple looking for some fighting instruction. NSM of that--though he did get shooed off by a monk on his cellphone arranging stock trades.

So, you'd be looking for the Shaolin, then, ita?

Which makes me laugh now, thinking of it as Staten Island, per the Wu-Tang Clan.

I just had a kind of pathetic revelation: I've been dreaming about taking an at-home vacation to just relax around the house, since I have at least two weeks banked at this point, but I just realized that this weekend might do the trick, now that my parents aren't here.

Jesse, do you have any home stuff you've been putting off. That is what I always plan on doing in my (not yet realised) stay at home vacation.

Yeah, some of that, some hanging around the city, some just sitting on my ass. I have done part of all three today! Which is why I'm hoping that by Tuesday I may have my attitude readjusted.

I'm not saying the monk was a shill... but that would be funny. "OK, go talk to that one, I'm about to drive her to the train."

Alexyss Tylor is my new hero.

They say you can't con an honest man. But you can rob him, so what's the deal?

Watching Hustle, as if you can't tell. Grifters with a heart of gold and all that. I like the show, and I don't mind cheering for les than spotless antagonists. But I swear last season they said they didn't steal, yet just this last ep I watched they robbed a clothing store without blinking. Don't get the air of moral superiority they keep putting forth.

Overheard on another thread:

Here's something nice, this movie Waitress...sent out this note today saying they are doing something called "Random Acts of Pie-ness" where there will be trucks in NY, Chicago, SF, Miami, Philly, Dallas, Boston, Atlanta, and DC all weekend handing out slices of free pie.