with someone (or something) in Complaints.

I'll return the favour.

I request this because I've already seen pretty much everything I liked when I was a kid destroyed by the internet, and now I'm running low on lulz.

I cannot seem to get my Openoffice Word program working again, and most of my good unsubmitted writing was on that. There was an especially nice short-short about storms and ghosts and seaside restaurants and shit, but I don't know how to get to it anymore.

And then I got in contact with this guy who was my Bob Dylan buddy back in Junior High, and he seemed quite impressed by my writing and requested a collaboration, and being as he seems to have been a musician from and since then while I have been a poet, and we did collaborate once back then and it was on a Tom freaking Waits song (which got lost, but still), I thought a collaboration was a great idea and suggested we meet up sometime in December. Now he has not responded, and I'm concerned about overstepping whatever, not to mention my family a similar amount of miles in the other direction I've been trying to meet up with for, like, a decade.

I have problems, I have solutions, I have seeming solutions which do not resolve, I have options which appear to be solutions which require going North and ones which require going South over December break, and my word program does not work no more. Everyone, um, pray for my logistics.

So I'm pretty much done with the Bible. I actually lost interest last weekend,midway through Revelation. I got through everything else, all the Apocrypha, including 4 Maccabees which isn't canon in any extant denomination, but I fizzled out during the epic, apocalyptic ending. There must be words to describe that, but I can't for the life of me think of them.


I need recommendations now. Specifically, I need recommendations for nonfiction books on the history of Yahwistic religions, and I need recommendations for fictional works (movie, play, literature, et cetera) about Satan. These recommendations will be used to write a book review in God class and create some sort of presentation in Satan class. I have lists of possibilities, but I wanna do something I've never heard of. Help me please, my darling Internet.

Meanwhile I'm reading trashy horror lit. The Bible was the densest book I've ever read, and it doesn't help that I was reading all the annotations as well. My brain rebelled against the seriousness, so I went and got a Stephen King collection. Reading that is like a metaphor about doing something really easy after spending a long while doing something more difficult.

I been slacking off on the Bible because I got all these seed-beads mixed up together and every time I get home I feel a compulsion to sort them. I have, however, had time to lingerie up the plz accounts a little, and apparently I'm getting a bunch of free creepy manga because a friend just has way too much manga for her own good, so the week has not been a total bust.

My parents' Red-Bellied Parrot cock.
He's being all cute with his beak tucked under his wing and his feathers fluffed out.

So I'm more than halfway through the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical Works. The OAB has all of them. It's the only Bible in the English language with Maccabees 1-4. At this rate, I'll be up to the New Testament by the time my History of God class gets into Jesus.

1 and 2 Maccabees are Catholic canon. 1 Maccabees tells of the establishment of Hanukkah, which was first celebrated when Judas Maccabeus regained the Temple in Jerusalem that Antiochus IV Epiphanes desecrated. If I were Catholic, I'd start celebrating Hanukkah.
...I'd make a terrible Catholic.