Numbered posts are easier on my brain today.

1. Not only is tomorrow the BPAL Lunar Oil order day and the full moon, there will also be a full lunar eclipse in the area, right about the time that I will be doing my last round. Exciting!

2a. I hate the bursar's office. My mother set up an agreement before the school year began to pay my tuition in three installments of about $350. They happily took the first payment, and the second was to be due at the end of October. Well, I called up to tell her that I have a bursar's block, and I needed to register next week. Apparently, the office had discontinued payment plans without telling her, and they told her that if she couldn't give them $600 by Friday, I don't get to register for my last semester of classes. The only way to fix this was to apply my RA paycheck directly to my tuition account. No more paychecks for me.

2b. This isn't as bad as it seems, though. My mom decided that as a trade-off, she'll be opening a Bank of America account in my name on Friday and transferring $100 into it, weekly. The $400 a month will cover my $300 lost paycheck and the $100/month for groceries we decided on after she discontinued my meal plan.

3. Stephanie decided to come into work today, so I'm not working. I'm also not working on Friday because I have to go home for the wedding, but I'm not so much worried about that. But honestly? If you have a worker who has to let you know weekly wether or not she can come in on her assigned day, it's better to assign someone else to that day. Because I came in expecting to work a job that was already covered, but Kyle didn't have the chance to tell me any earlier. Bah. I want the hours, man. Christmas is coming.

4. Since it's too late for me to put in any Christmas BPAL orders and have them come by the time I'll be leaving for break, I might do Lush instead. I've been meaning to try Potion, anyway.

5. I had a five, I swear I did. God, my head hurts.

6. Aha! So, that D I got on the presentation? I wrote a paper the week earlier on the same topic, using the same article as one of my sources. I got back the paper yesterday. With an A on it. Someone please explain this to me in kindergarten terms. Really.

7. I owe myself coffee. I'm gonna go do that.

8. God, I just found out I have an inservice tonight. Class until 6pm, then a two hour inservice. Someone shoot me, please?

What does the Samhain/All Hallows Eve mean to you?

For me, it's the symbolic death of the God, the time of his journey into the underworld. It's a time to face, celebrate, and commemorate death, because it is a necessary part of life and the ultimate unknown.

Do you do anything special to celebrate or commemorate this sabbat?

For me it's a time of meditation. Sure, I love all of the Halloween-y stuff that comes along with it, and I carve pumpkins and watch horror movies and eat chocolate all in due time. But on Samhain, or the closest I can get to it, I like to spend some time quietly by myself and think about the theme of death and rebirth. I do runecasts as well, and light candles for people who have passed on, if there is someone special I wish to think about. Also, its a time for me to let go of bad habits and thought patterns, so I take time to let all of the useless "spiritual clutter" go.

What does the coming Winter mean to you in terms of spirituality?

Winter break, once the hecticness of finals is over, always gives me time to focus on spiritual things. Now that the prototype is done, I will be working on my final correspondance book that will serve me for as long as I see fit, and I'll be catching up on my reading. It's always a time of introspection and development of ideas. I huddle up under blankets with tea and lose myself in books for a few weeks while the world around me is still.

I'm heading home for food. Tomorrow is Frost Moon/Discontinued Scents/Yule BPAL day! Eeee! I think I'm going to split them into two orders, one tomorrow and one on 11/4. Maybe sooner. I am so so so excited. And! My Samhain order will be coming in about a week or so. 11/2 is the official 6-week mark.

The 'Say Something to 15 Random FList People' Meme::

1. You are so talented and creative. You should start your own handmade card business. I'd be willing to pay for what you do.
2. I sincerely care about you, and I want you to make the best decision for you, even though I know it will be the hard one to make. Also, I don't want to see you hurt yourself. You have so much beauty, inner, and outer, and you're strong enough to make it.
3. You always leave thoughtful comments that I have no response to. "Thanks," or "You're so right!" can get repetitive. But I do read them, and I am thankful, and you are so right.
4. Slow down, girl. Breathe. It'll be okay, just back away from the drama.
5. You've been in my thoughts a lot lately, which is strange because I don't really know a lot about you. I hope things take a turn for the better because at this point, they pretty much have to.
6. I never read your posts. Sorry.
7. You are so ridiculously generous. I love gabbing with you about our mutual obsessions!
8. Why am I on your friendslist? I find it so odd that you friended me! I'm interested in reading more of your work, and your spirituality posts are very interesting reads-- but I always feel overwhelmed, like I don't exactly know what to say that wouldn't make me sound horribly amateurish. Hopefully, soon, I will.
9. Though I've shared so much of myself with you and consider you one of my closest online friends, I find that sometimes I cannot share the matters closest to my heart with you. That's sad, but that's life, I guess.
10. You are fascinating, and I'd love to meet up with you sometime. Maybe we could get something pierced.
11. I think your SO is an absolute shit and does not deserve to be fawned over all the time like you do.
12. I'm so glad you're all in love! You deserve it, enjoy the goodness.
13. Please. Stop. Whining.
14. You only comment when you want to be contrary. To be honest, I think your political and social views are a load of carefully-worded bullshit and they're beginning to make me re-evalutate you as a person. Your compassionate conservative angle makes no sense, nor is it at all logical. If people used your logic, we'd still be segregated.
15. Flexible, eh?



PS-- evergleam83, have you seen this??