Daily Archives: March 12, 2004

Indecision Lass

‘Tis the birthday of the reknowned Tal today. There’s the usual birthday thang over at the Irish pub. Thing is, it’s a Friday night, and Friday nights are always busy at the pub. It’s also St Patrick’s Day weekend here in Montreal, known for its hard-core green insanity. And as the icing on the cake, the Toronto Maple Leafs are in town to play the Montreal Canadiens.

And me with my crowd thing? Yeah, right.

I’ve decided to go, then changed my mind half a dozen times now. I mean, it’s Tal’s birthday – I have to at least stop by. Downtown will be the beginnings of a madhouse, though. The pub will be solid people from wall to wall.

Why, oh, why didn’t we think of this earlier? Why, oh, why didn’t we act in a sane and reasonable fashion and say, no, let’s celebrate on the Monday after?

My cold’s reached the point of rare coughs. The coughs have given me a nasty headache, however, and the thought of walking into the loud pub in my state makes me whimper and wish for my head to be safely underneath my pillow. At least there I’ll be comfortable when I cough and split my head in two.

See? I’m firmly in the camp of No Way Am I Going at the moment. If I wait long enough, I’ll think that the pub won’t be bad, a cider would be nice, it’s not cold outside, and go to put my shoes on again. And then I’ll imagine the roar of music and voices hitting me as I open the pub door, and I’ll cringe again.

I’ve just missed my second bus downtown. I wonder what camp I’ll occupy when the next one rolls by in half an hour.

Cross-Eyed

I spent the afternoon finally loading up the rest of the articles over at Owldaughter – Read as well as mirroring them at Owldaughter – Believe. I’d been holding off because, in uncharacteristically poor academic ettiquette, when I wrote my original articles I forgot to note down my sources. There was no way in heck I was going to post articles that clearly used sources other than my own brain and not cite them. So this afternoon I spent frustrating amounts of time sorting through Celtic reference sites, looking for articles that seemed familiar.

I found them, in the end, and I’ve posted pretty much everything to Owldaughter. My next project involves coding and uploading my Pagan book reviews, and submitting the review page URL to Witchvox as a review site.

I feel cross-eyed but satisfied with my work.