Ars Gratia Artis

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Music: something unidentifiable drifting across the night
Mood: Hi, my name is Bitcharina McCrankypants.
Saw the physician today, because, as I have bitterly complained in the past–well, mentioned, at least–I am the queen of multiple small nagging illnesses and injuries. This morning I awoke with the Eye of Crustiness and knew the time had come [...]

Witchvox Article
Another article on the quest for recognition of the Pentacle by the VA. It is appalling that the Pentacle has been in the system for 9 years while other, even fringe-y-er religions–including human secularism!–have received approval for inclusion on grave markers. This is so not right that even some conservative Christians have gotten [...]

I awoke this morning to the sound of a screaming hard drive, so loud that it travelled up the stairs and woke me. Thus dieth the last laptop. I guess I am now in the position to beg for assistance from Dee rather than merely ask for her time when she can get around to [...]

Pulled this away from Pixel and Giovanna:
“My SCA includes authenticity, many others doesn’t and I’m OK w/ that. So if your game does include authenticity….”
The questions:
1. What do you feel you are doing well?
2. What can you do better?
3. What do you need help with (motivation counts), what’s stopping you?
4. What could you care less [...]

I dreamt, in the last hours of my sleep, that I was in France, near the Spanish border, studying illuminated documents in a library full of medieval books. I was so happy. It was a wonderful dream.

Do forgive me and my entirely practical, gas-friendly Echo for daring to attempt to share the road with you. I know that, as a childless 20-something SUV driver from an upper middle class ‘burb, you are so entitled to dominate the road that you are well within your rights to make sure that I become [...]

Just a few momets to amuse myself by preserving some of the best search engine phrases that lead here. “Ars Gratia Artis” is an obvious one, as is “Elise/Elyse Boucher” Some, however, have left me laughing at the silly ways they can be understood, while others leave me stumbling about with furled brow in “WTF, [...]

Ian’d be turning in his grave were he dead, the way I’ve butchered his line.
Anyway, it’s fucking hot. Interesting things are happening in my personal life, but nothing I want to write about publicly, leading me to once again curse the lack of the friends lock in wordpress. Oh Well. I’ll just listen to [...]

I had a lot of fun at WW this year, and still have some few things to say about it, but by the time I get around to summarizing it, it will be long past. I did, however, get the persona diary entries transcribed and posted to the persona diary. If you want to read [...]

Snooze alarm: You need your sleep - Sleep Disorders - MSN Health & Fitness
One theory of post-traumatic stress disorder is that it is caused by disordered sleep. After a bad experience has filled the brain during waking hours, inadequate sleep prevents the normal sifting and winnowing that moves these impressions into more integrated and less [...]

Back from DubDub and getting ready for work after the aerobic exercise of emptying all the things I took with me out of my car. I had a nice time, and there is a reason the people who remember the earliest days of camping events call this one “Old Pennsic.”
Wrap up and pictures will have [...]

Baron Berwyn’s nice little video montage of WW a few years ago.
Well. We were supposed to be there already, but it has never once worked out that way. If it was just me needing to get ready, we’d have been on the way and there by now, but we would have left much, much later [...]

Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the question ‘Would you like to squeeze as many objects the size of a watermelon out of your body as it takes to kill you?’ they generally answer ‘No, thank you.’ This leads to falling birthrates everywhere [...]