I predict a white night for this seminar.
Kill me now.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Shir - Dec 31, 2011 6:37:48 am PST #4993 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
§ ita § - Dec 31, 2011 6:44:36 am PST #4994 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sadly, magnesium is supposed to help against migraines, and is in most of the herbal migraine prevention stuff, so now I just take Vitamin B and Vitamin D
I'm on all those, and I can really tell when I let the magnesium lapse. It makes the most obvious difference. Of everything I take prophylactically. God knows why I still have such a hard time maintaining a pill-taking routine, though. Probably because it seems to change so often? I dunno. For someone who's been on multiple prophylactics for years I'm pretty crap at it.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Dec 31, 2011 7:03:27 am PST #4995 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
In re: Bibles - I am a serious Bible geek. My PhD title will be Biblical Studies, (only slightly) oddly. Although, now that I've transferred to a university that claims to have one of the best Biblical Studies departments in the world, I am hugely intimidated by the people researching things like the dating of the Gospel of Mark, and medieval German translations. I own five Bibles. Including a KJV that belonged to my great-grandfather. I've recently started giving them to charity shops. I did not need eight of the things.
Tom Scola - Dec 31, 2011 7:09:27 am PST #4996 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
dating of the Gospel of Mark
I thought there was a pretty good consensus that it was written shortly after the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE. Is that not the case?
Connie Neil - Dec 31, 2011 7:37:24 am PST #4997 of 30001
brillig
Whenever I read serious analysis of gospel dating et al, I always get so lost and start thinking, "But how do you *know* that!" Which, of course, would involve lots of study of linquistics and textual analysis and other stuff that makes me twitchy and frustrated and feeling very stupid.
sj - Dec 31, 2011 9:00:55 am PST #4998 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Does anyone have New Year's Eve plans this year?
TCG is playing First Night, and I'm staying home with one of my new books and also making a pot of lentil soup (it's supposed to be good luck for the New Year in Italian tradition).
ETA: We're not doing our usual NYD party this year because the holidays were too rough on us this year, and we just need a break. So, I have no cooking cleaning to do for that tonight.
Zenkitty - Dec 31, 2011 9:06:13 am PST #4999 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I plan to eat ice cream, watch tv, and make no resolutions.
Scrappy - Dec 31, 2011 9:11:50 am PST #5000 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Staying home, finishing off the holiday ham and watching the rest of The Killing, which I am rather meh about but the DH is digging.
Steph L. - Dec 31, 2011 9:19:59 am PST #5001 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
We are actually going to a big party in a hotel ballroom that involves dinner, dancing, and a drag show. I don't think I've ever been to a NYE party this big before. I'm wearing my tiara. (No, really.)
Vortex - Dec 31, 2011 9:21:08 am PST #5002 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I'm going to a bar to meet up with the alumni club to watch the Peach Bowl. Nice and low key, which is good since I'm working a cold.