28 Tishrei/16 October, 2009
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bearshortyI’m going twenty eight days without fanfic now. I thought it would at least get a little easier, but it isn’t, really. I’m still craving that escape. But I just need to think positively and keep at it. And never ever even go to my favorite author’s sites to see if they updated. I have been really good last four weeks. Can’t stop now. I think I need to replace that obsession with something positive. Like work. Maybe if I start thinking of some of my litigants as actors in a fanfic, that might help. :) I’m going to up my goals for the year. I won’t go to Internet for frivolous purposes except from 6pm to midnight. During the regular day I will use Internet only for good, not for evil: work related things only and work email. There I put it to the universe.
I registered for the January conference in California. Their hotel rates are way too expensive so I’ll book some cheaper hotel later. My parents and I will treat this conference as an opportunity to go to California for a bit of a vacation, so there will be car transportation. I can be flexible on hotel this time.
Mama should give me some of the money she makes at babysitting our neighbors. She had to take Alexis swimming today but, until they left, both Alexis and her little brother Andrew hung out with me. They have way too much energy. Where did my energy go? When I was that little I was crazy with energy but not anymore.
The funniest and geekiest thing I saw tonight that I just have to share is this Klingon rapper . It's Eminem song in Klingon.
Numbers WTF moment of the day: first four chapters live up to the book’s name, since it is all census and naming of tribes and people. The census only counts men over twenty, so to get the full number one must multiply. Of course, the numbers are very rounded. It is not like someone made them up or anything! Judah had the most descendants. Levites actually had the least and they counted all males over a month old. Only the fifth chapter offers some entertainment in a form of a test for unfaithful wife. If a guy thinks his wife cheated on him, be it true or not, he needs to take her to a priest (with an offering, of course). The priest then makes the woman stand in the tabernacle with loose hair while he gets a jar of water that he puts some floor dirt in. If the woman drinks the water and nothing happens, she is innocent, but if she gets sick from the water with distended stomach and wasted thigh she is guilty. Sounds like ordeal to me. The water comes with a curse attached that would only affect the guilty. That curse is actually written down, not just spoken, and washed in that water she has to drink. There is power in written word. The husband remains innocent no matter what the result is, even if she is proven not guilty. I’m sure she would give him hell after, though, for making her go through all that.
I registered for the January conference in California. Their hotel rates are way too expensive so I’ll book some cheaper hotel later. My parents and I will treat this conference as an opportunity to go to California for a bit of a vacation, so there will be car transportation. I can be flexible on hotel this time.
Mama should give me some of the money she makes at babysitting our neighbors. She had to take Alexis swimming today but, until they left, both Alexis and her little brother Andrew hung out with me. They have way too much energy. Where did my energy go? When I was that little I was crazy with energy but not anymore.
The funniest and geekiest thing I saw tonight that I just have to share is this Klingon rapper . It's Eminem song in Klingon.
Numbers WTF moment of the day: first four chapters live up to the book’s name, since it is all census and naming of tribes and people. The census only counts men over twenty, so to get the full number one must multiply. Of course, the numbers are very rounded. It is not like someone made them up or anything! Judah had the most descendants. Levites actually had the least and they counted all males over a month old. Only the fifth chapter offers some entertainment in a form of a test for unfaithful wife. If a guy thinks his wife cheated on him, be it true or not, he needs to take her to a priest (with an offering, of course). The priest then makes the woman stand in the tabernacle with loose hair while he gets a jar of water that he puts some floor dirt in. If the woman drinks the water and nothing happens, she is innocent, but if she gets sick from the water with distended stomach and wasted thigh she is guilty. Sounds like ordeal to me. The water comes with a curse attached that would only affect the guilty. That curse is actually written down, not just spoken, and washed in that water she has to drink. There is power in written word. The husband remains innocent no matter what the result is, even if she is proven not guilty. I’m sure she would give him hell after, though, for making her go through all that.
