Motto to live by:

"At least it's not a gunshot."
Apparently, this is what I told my room mate when she was complaining about a wedgie. I don't remember ever having said this, but there you have it. She says she found it so funny that whenever she's complaining about something, she tells herself 'at least it's not a gunshot."
She recently hurt herself by slipping while climbing a rope (for ROTC). She has discovered that it is a second degree burn. When the nurse accidenlty pulled the scab off today, Non~a (my roomie) says that she told herself "at least it's not a gunshot."
My reply: "Babe, I would've cried. Screw the 'it's not a gunshot' Gunshots aren't the only things that hurt."
I don't think this is going to stop her from saying this, however. Whatever floats your boat.

Wisdom

Education and learning are important. School, on the other hand, not so much. I am learning this. Grades are not really as important as actually learning something. You can try and put so much effort into something and get an aweful grade, but you acutual learn something. And then there are the classes where you get As, just skimming right through with no effort whatsoever. And you do not learn a thing. I am sure that my French is getting better from Study Abroad and, while I am not fluent (which is what I was hoping for), that was the entire point of studying abroad. But I have a feeling my grades are not going to be what I wish them to be. But I am trying to keep in mind that it is the experiences (and French amelioration) which are more important.

Results for Empathy Quizzes.

Meople did these, so I did, too. Here are my results:

You Scored as Human Empath As a Human Empath, you possess the ability to connect with other people on an empathic level, allowing you to feel their emotion as though they were your own. Visit us at EmpathCommunity.ning.com Human Empath 83% Balanced Empath 63% Healer Empath 61% Communication Empath 54% Animal Empath 50% Clairvoyant Empath 39% Energy Empath 38% Physical Empath 15%

You Scored as Judge

You are a Judge Empath, one who is a "truthsayer". You can tell truth from lies, good from evil. You do not tolerate wrong doing. You are a defender of the good and the innocent. You are kind and merciful but do not play foolish games. (from "The Book of Storms" by Jad Alexander at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Empaths/)

Judge

60%

Universal

55%

Artist

55%

Traveler

50%

Fallen Angel

45%

Precog

40%

Healer

30%

Shaman		30%

You Scored as Clairsentience ~ Clear Sensing or Clear Feeling

Clairsentience allows a person to feel what others are feeling. This would entail feeling a person's emotions or feeling another's physical pain. This can be a very difficult ability to process.

Clairsentience ~ Clear Sensing or Clear Feeling

67%

Clariscentist or Clairalience ~ Clear Smelling

50%

Clairgustance or Clairambience~ Clear Taste

50%

Clairaudience ~ Clear Hearing

33%

Claircognizance ~ Clear Knowing

17%

Clairvoyance ~ Clear Seeing

0%

NaNoWriMo

I am participating in NaNoWriMo this year. NaNoWriMo is where you write 50000 words in 30 days. Last year and the year before I said "I'm too busy this year; I'll participate next year." So, this year, even though I am once again very busy (Novembers are always busy!), I am participating! So far I have 4606 words and if I were on track (1667 words a day) I would have 13333 words. As you can see, I am behind. But I will not let that stop me!
But Why?
Because it forces the person to committ to one story, to write every day, to work on getting out words, to not worry about if it is "good enough," to let creativity abound, to go after inspiration with a club, to turn off the inner editor, to get into the habit of writing every day, to make "some day" (as in"someday I will write a novel") today, to be dedicated, to Prove you can do it, to see peoples faces when you tell them that you are going to write 50000 words in 30 days. Because you can.

And so, because I am behind, I had better get cracking!!!!

Poem: Of Clocks and Keys and Colored String

Of clocks and keys and colored string
Spring and snow and lightning bugs
Storms and stars and opal rough
Hope and Dreams and swirled stuff
These are the things with which magic is made
Of feathers and flowers and friendship true
Glitter and Greatness and glass slippers
Panache and Poetry and petosky stones
Wonder and waves and wedding days
These are the things with which magic's made
Ordinary, everyday, mundane yet awe inspiring
Comfort and novelites and creative desires.
Magic lives and breathes and fills the world
In every thing; Simplicity
Of clocks and keys and colored string

That poem was written the night of October second. Seems kind of Alice and Wonderlandy and Practical Magicy.

Quote_Pierre Bottero

"Et l'enchanteur, maitre des mots et des fleurs, naquit, enfant sage au milieu des tumultes" C.B.

French vocab for today:

taquiner = to tease, to dig at, to tantalize

brouiller = to make cloudy, to scramble, to shuffle, to befuddle, to run afoul of someone

époustouflante = mind-bloggling, amazing, mind-blowing

pantoufle = slipper

brimer = to bully, to aggravate

tramer = to hatch, to plot, to weave

lampée(s) = gulps i.e. of water

trempé(e) = soaked

tranchant(e) = to be sharp, forthright, curt

flâner = to stroll, to loaf, to roam, to sashay

lover = to coil, to wind, to curl up