EJ July 22

 

 

 

723My weekend, etc.

 

• Jul. 22, 2002

   

  Saturday, I went out shopping for vitamins. Turns out the catalog I
  got really _is_ cheaper than I can get in the store. Too bad they
  don't have just plain calcium. The best deal on that was at
  Walgreens, 200 600-mg calciums for $9.99.
  
  Anyhoo...I was wandering from Walgreens to Sun Harvest to Eckerd's,
  was going to drop by Whole Foods, too, but managed to screw up. I
  stopped by Ross on Burnet on the way from Walgreens to Sun Harvest,
  and tried on some outfits. Left my wallet in the dressing room,
  didn't realize it until I had gone to Sun Harvest, then Eckerd's,
  tehn stopped at the other Ross on the way to the PO box.At the other
  ross, I had talked myself into charging a ren-style blouse and a cool
  little chilled lunchbox thingy, and then realized I didn't have my
  wallet. It wasn't in the dressing rooms there, it wasn't in my car,
  so I drove to the other Ross and there it was. Everything was still
  in it, except for the $20 I'd gotten for dinner with No Kidding! on
  Sunday and the little list of affirmations I'd photocopied out of
  _How to Get out of debt, stay out of debt, and live prosperously_.
  Feh.
  
  Anyhoo...that made for a fairly suck Saturday. I went to the grocery
  store to get goodies for the star party and wrote a check for $10
  over, figuring I would just go to Habana on Sunday with NK! and get
  an appetizer. (Tom ended up lending me $20)
  
  Went to the Star Party. Stayed up tooo late! But it was fun. We all
  met at Mark and Cat's apartment and then carpooled/caravaned to Dee &
  Kyle's house out in Leander. They have some property, apparently
  quite a few acres, and there's a feeder of the San Gabriel River that
  runs thru their property. We set up the telescope on the limestone
  shelf near the water and watched the stars. The moon was pretty
  bright, so viewing wasn't optimal, but it was great fun. Several of
  the people there had gone to college together and ended up in one of
  those late night college type conversations, about philosophy and
  humanity, etc etc. Punctuated by mathematician jokes. It was pretty
  funny to watch, but I was in about 6 feet over my head, so I just
  listened. It was very fun. I didn't realize people still thought &
  talked like that after college & have kind of missed that rarefied
  level of pure thought
  
  I missed Nude Yoga and Drandmir on Saturday--I tried to get up for
  Yoga but just got dressed too slowly & realized I wasn't going to
  make it on time, so I got undressed again and went back to sleep.
  Slept until 4-ish. Dinner w/ NK! was the usual clusterfuck. I may not
  do dinners with them anymore. I always put in wayy more than my fair
  share, but the tab always ends up being short and then I get
  irritated when people look at me like I'm a cheapskate when whoever's
  tallying up the bill says "We're $10 short, everyone put in another
  dollar" and I refuse, because I've already put in $5 more than my
  fair share. I despise cheapskates.
  
  Jen called me late-ish on Sunday nite. She had been drinking. The
  first part of our conversation was good, but it got silly/incoherent
  there towards the end. I love Jen, but I felt bad for running up her
  phone bill on silly stuff.
  
  So...that was my weekend. I am a little tired today, but I'll live.

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725UB on La Vecchia

• Jul. 22, 2002

   

  What a crock of SHIT!!! But she got what she wanted out of it:
  attention from the big people on the list & 'offers' to teach her
  stuff. Crazy.
  ==============================================
  From: SIL 
  Date: Tue Jul 16, 2002 6:32 am
  Subject: Re: The Truth About Jana/Janara
  
  Amen, preach it Sistah Gaia, testify!
  
  That's Texan for "you GO girl!" ;-)
  
  I have a few pet peeves, one of them being dishonesty in all its
  forms be they lies of commission, lies of omission and hypocrisy, and
  the other being willfully, maliciously and persistently stupid chimp-
  sheeple who do not do their research, and who do not bother to let
  little things like facts interfere with their feelings.
  
  ^5!
  
  Benedizione scuri,
  ------ (certified paralegal, certified teacher of English,
  Classical Civ and Music)
  *****
  May the Roads rise to meet you
  May the Winds blow always at your back
  May the Sun shine warmly upon your face
  May the Rains fall softly upon your fields
  Until we meet again, may the Lady hold you always in the palm of Her
  hand
  
  

   

  --- In LaVecchia@y..., "gaia"  wrote:
  > Ciao tutti ~
  >
  > Recently a sad, misguided individual posted a very nasty post on
  the message board of Raven Grimassi's website, claiming that they
  were "the strega of Northern Italy" and basically claiming that since
  they were from Italy, they knew all about "real stregheria" (despite
  the fact that their message came from an AT&T server in Minnesota,
  LOL).
  >
  > The post was full of many inaccuracies and misconceptions about the
  Arician Tradition and Raven's family in general. I have seen this
  same post pop up on other list or websites.
  ======================================================================
  
  From: SIL 
  Date: Sat Jul 20, 2002 2:00 pm
  Subject: Re: ADMIN: Policy on Off-Topic posts
  
  
  
  Answering the call of the Blood within me set me on my arduous path
  back to the Ways. Although I am Italian by blood, I was adopted,
  born and bred Texan - of which I am also proud. However, as a "lost
  cub" I have no resources to pass on to me my hereditary family
  tradition - no nonas, no bisnonas, no zias.
  
  After years of eclectic solitariness, I was called back to the Ways
  by a circuitous route of R A McAvoy's excellent Damiano books, a
  folklore class with Dr. Alessandro Falassi himself, pointedly sharp
  vivid recurring dreams, and a very long talk with Amberlyn, formerly
  of Round Rock Texas. I spent a year digging under every rock and
  crevice for every little bit of lore that was on the study list
  Amberlyn gave me, and then lo and behold, Raven wrote it all down and
  put it in one place, his Ways of the Strega, and there was my year of
  study, and more, sitting on the shelf at Barnes & Noble! Mille
  grazie, Maestro.
  
  Now then. Amberlyn is no longer in Texas. Iona is no longer in
  Texas. Maggie (Feast) is not in Texas. Gaia is not in Texas.
  Neither are Les nor Raven. Y'all gettin the picture yet? There
  AREN'T any Elders that I know of anywhere close to me to Initiate me
  or teach me. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
  This student's only connections to her teachers are this list, and
  Iona's Italian Witchcraft.
  
  I'm here to learn. I'm here to learn about Stregheria. Period.
  Nothing else. I earned a Bachelor's in English with a double minor
  in Music and Classic Civilizations. I was an eclectic pagan long
  before I realized the pull of the Italian Witch Blood in my veins for
  what it was. All my life I've studied every major mythos and
  religion in the world, Eastern and Western, so many I won't bother
  enumerating them. I practice yoga (it's good for a double gemini
  with three other planets in air). There are other places to study
  what is valuable, but NOT part of the Old Ways specifically.
  
  The moderators of this list are ELDERS. They are the repository of
  invaluable knowledge to which we who are uninitiated are not privy.
  They don't HAVE to share that knowledge at all. Whatever their
  reasons for doing so, I am forever grateful. Now - those of you who
  can't appreciate that, or respect the Elders of our Tradition,
  forgive my crudity, profanity and bluntness, but just get the hell
  out already, ok? You're muddying the waters for the rest of us.
  
  I am incensed over the situation with Gaia. I WISH I could be her
  baby dragon, so I could stand at the door and protect my mommy
  dragon. I would gladly do my meager best to guard this door while
  she recuperates. But ya know what? My meager best couldn't hold a
  candle to Gaia on her worst day. Ya know why? Because Gaia has more
  knowledge on this subject in her pinky finger than I have in my
  entire body.
  
  Anyone who is going to complain about what Gaia, Raven and the other
  Elders are trying to accomplish with this list, go away. Don't go
  away mad...just go away.
  
  And as for being a bitch, I'm not a bitch, I'm The Bitch, and that's
  MS BITCH to some of you.
  
  Wishing we could return to the days of posting and discussing the
  Words of Aradia and other specifics of the Old Ways, this
  Knight/Queen of Swords is sheathing her sword for the time being.
  
  Mille grazie Gaia, Iona, Maggie, Amberlyn, Les and Raven! That
  doesn't get said enough.
  
  Benedizione scuri,
  S-----
  *****
  May the Roads rise to meet you
  May the Winds blow always at your back
  May the Sun shine warmly upon your face
  May the Rains fall softly upon your fields
  Until we meet again, may the Lady hold you always in the palm of Her
  hand