tying up ends

[cornerofmadness]

taking a nanoing break to tie up the theatre experience. Last night we ran another 141 people through it and the grand total was over 800 for the week. It was a blast. I wish i lived closer to the theatre so it was easier for me to do more. I also was reminded why i don't teach high school. They're all hormones and no brains.

There was one 16 y.o. who flirted with me the entire week. I'm like sweetpea, i have t-shirts older than you. Seriously. Now to find an adult to pay the attention to me that he did. I did end up punking out on taking down the stuff today. I forgot a dental appt. gah.

One sour note about Halloween had to do with work. We have one religious teacher who's been teaching at the college longer than I've been alive. I have no trouble with this. If you're religious more power to you but it pissed me off when he stopped in my office yesterday to bitch about how ungodly it was that Halloween is so popular now and how I had BEST decorate my office for Christmas. How persumptious. How does he know I'm not Jewish? I'm going to a Hindu festival next weekend and I have Buddhist prayer flags in my office. How does he know THAT isn't my religion? Does he go around telling the Hindu/Muslim/Buddhist teachers to decorate? I wanted so much to say 'i"m pagan. THIS is my big holiday' but i know better than to shoot myself in the foot. I have nothing against religion until you start forcing it on others.

And even more upsetting is getting a call from mom to say my brother's colonoscopy didn't go well. His Chron's flare might lead to a bowel resection. Mom's not taking it well. I guess it is hard on her. She only has two kids and we're both seriously ill. Her and Dad could outlive us both. That's not easy

and on that unpleasant note, I'm going back to nanoing before i depress myself

Comments

[dknightshade.livejournal.com]

*grins about the teenager*

But how annoying about the religion teacher. *rolls eyes* Very presumptious indeed.

And sorry about your brother's health. Not good.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

he's actually a MATH teacher but one of the religious leaders on campus

and thanks. no it's not good for my brother at all

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

Goddamn, that teacher sounds like an ass. It pisses me off when people just assume that everyone's a Christian.

*hugs* about your family.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i know. it's just like gah~

and thanks

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

It pisses me off when people just assume that everyone's a Christian.

They do locally. I don't think they've figured out there are other religions yet.

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

I think it's more that they just don't *care* that there's other religions. Kinda goes with the territory of thinking that your way is the One True Way.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that too

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I was listening to a client go into great horrified detail about her stepdaughter "being a witch" and "casting spells" and I'm thinking in the back of my head, "First, wanna-wiccan-be, I'm sure...to piss you off, because if she was actually being trained by someone in this, she'd know better than to make the waves she is, second, I'm pagan - and you seem to like me."

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i adopt the policy the strega have for hundreds of years, hide in the church, let them think what they want and do what YOU want

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but Catholicism is a lot like paganism anyway. Who knows the diff? *giggle*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes i made mention of that to HIM today, that Catholics do have celebrations for Halloween (not to mention the Day of the Dead today) and he huffed about THEM too

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

*eyeroll*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ditto here and there's no excuse. in the math science building alone we have several major religions represented

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

People only see what they want to see, though.

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

"She only has two kids and we're both seriously ill. Her and Dad could outlive us both. That's not easy"

All the more to love you now. :-D *Hugs*

No one at my college got into H'ween at all. I wore my cat hat and was all depressed that no one else even so much as TRIED to play. :-( The cafeteria staff were dressed up - that is it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks

my college had a party but i didn't go

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

*headshake* I'm sorry about Johnny. Man.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. I'll tell him

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

That sort of religious person is so annoying... ignorant, thoughtless, careless... I could go on, and on.

We had Jehovah's Witnesses out in force yesterday (large white van full of large black ladies dressed to the nines), going door-to-door preaching salvation... but only to the doors that have Halloween decorations. So, guess who's house got a knock? Lucky for me, we have a fence and locked gate - so none of the uninvited even make it to our door. But they knocked on the side of our house for 15 minutes...

And I hope your brother doesn't need a resection. *hugs* to all

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

so do i re: my brother

and yes I nearly hit two JW's who were doing that in town and stepped out in front of my car

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Bowel resection can work out very well for people with Chron's. I speak from experience (entire transverse colon -gone).

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's what I told him. Unfortunately his area is not in a good spot. I'm always surprise just how prevalant this disease is (I always have one student, my cousin and brother have it. I have some kind of IBS and my great gram died of it)