Eccentric Flower:199903/false dates lost pets and Clio
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fourteen march false dates, lost pets, and Clio On Friday I had one of the best dates I've ever had with someone I'm not dating. Poor Marc. It's okay for me, but it was the kind of evening that made you want to end it by going home to bed with someone, and that obviously wasn't going to happen. We ordered the same food all night, in plates built for two (it was coincidence), drank sangria that was actually purple Kool-Aid, and talked about everything and I do mean everything. (Example: I blush to say this, but there was a point in the conversation where I turned to him and asked, "Wait. Are you talking about snow or jism?" The strange thing was that, given his narrative at that point, I really wasn't sure which!) This is what happens when you give two people a night out who know each other's brains in a scarily intimate fashion and who are both starved for conversation. - - - In other news, my virtual Pikachu has abandoned me. I didn't know it could do that! All right, all right, I haven't taken it for a walk in several days, but even so. I turned it on and Pikachu was missing - nothing there! Pressed the "mood status" button: "Pikachu has left you!" There are going to be some upset kids and some irate parents if this gets out - I think a missing pet is, in many ways, more heartbreaking than a dead one. However, another message implied that if I take it on a few long walks, Pikachu might come back. We'll see. There's always the reset button. - - - Clio paid another visit today. She added a new splash page, which will take you to a revised and reorganized contents page. One paragraph has been added to the Gregorian calendar page, but the big change is the page on the pagan holidays, which has been nearly quadrupled in length, to 3000 words. Have a look if you have the time. Clio will probably make those pages public to passers-by after another two articles are finished - the top pages are ready to go. All this holiday reading which Clio apparently did while occupying my body has left me a little dizzy. Writing about Christmas, for example, is going to be dreadful - I've learned that at least six different holidays have been swallowed alive by the Beast That Is Christmas. It's a tangled mess of myths. All these older holidays are so intertwined - when you look at the document above, for example, you will learn the secret connection between Imbolc and Groundhog Day. It'll almost be a relief to write about some of the holidays which mark important historical events, were basically declared by fiat, and have much less of a past.
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