I'm trying to work-- seriously, I am. It's just that it's difficult to do detail-oriented tasks like reconciling large vendor accounts when you've got to answer the phone every two minutes for the receptionist because she's busy.

So, quickly-- the "say ten things to random people on your friendslist but don't say who" meme. An oldie, but a goodie.

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In other words, I took a cab from the metro today because the M9 was being a punkass. Taped to the back of the driver's seat was a whole treatise on transubstantiation. It included supposedly scientific bits about five different blood types, and how wine can literally become blood, based on the work of a monk around 800 ad who apparently prayed for (and received) such a miracle. It ended, in big, bold letters, with "If you have not drunk the true blood of Christ, you are not yet saved!" Mmm, tasty blood. It was both fascinating and a little creepy.

Also, I got a call from my mother this morning. She saw my sister's MySpace. Her take: "She says she's into sex and drugs. How can that be? I don't understand why she says these things. They can't be true!" Dear mom, head --> desk. Denial is not just a river in Egypt. Kthx.

Since I haven't blathered in awhile. I put in my first order in quite some time-- I got a 5ml of Litha.

Litha:: Midsummer, Ukon Juhla, Alban Heruin, the Light of the Shore. This is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, marking the sun’s highest path across the sky. The Sun God and the Lord of the Forest are at the apex of their strength, and the Holy Day itself is a celebration of light’s triumph over darkness. The world around us is teeming with light and life, and on this day fertility rituals for both the land and its people are observed. Honey mead with honeysuckle, oak wood, ivy leaf, wild thyme, carnation, daisy, vervain, gum arabic, frankincense, yauhtli, and liquid copal.

Litha is one of my favorite points in the wheel of the year-- it's that tenuous time between the light half and the dark half of the year, a celebratory and magical time, and but also a sobering one, as each day hence until Imbolc, the sun will grow weaker and weaker in the sky. For us in the USA, we've generally still got sweltering weather straight through Lammas, but in an astrological sense, Litha really is the dividing point. Perhaps of note to some of my newer friends, as you might know, MidSummer is a traditional marriage time, when in some theologies, the Goddess is wed to the God, and fairy magic is afoot. In my mind, it's a matured Beltane-- a continuation of the first riotous burst of the fertility and sensuality of May Day.

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