Life and its small stabbities!

[karanguni]

Oh, look, a real-life update! Warning for the strange phenomenon known as life!



1. One examination left to go before the rest of my life finally begins. It's been 12 years coming; let me at it, baby.

2. Finally finished up confirming and settling all my travel plans. I may love the work, but I'll never miss the workload. On the bright side, I see a potential future for myself as a bizarre tour guide if I ever, say, flunk out before I even get to university.

3. Re: work. Economy's gone to shit, so the chances of getting a proper job are slicing close to thin. Nevertheless, non-profit work seems forthcoming. Managed to sneak a hook-in to help out with mass-media and publicity; looking forward to doing that before heading off. Hopefully will get either a teaching or administrative job when I come home. Maybe I can whore myself off for free to either the newspapers and/or lawyers, if push comes to shove-off-a-cliff.

4. Re: social work. Finally want to get some of this done. Parents will probably not want my money even if I want to repay them for tripism; proposal time. If they let me, I want to feed whatever I make equivalent to what I'm going to be spending on starting up a public speaking fund at the alma (alma) mater; it's about time those kids got more than missed lunches and stressed out teachers to guide them along.

5. Current reading list: the Bible comes back on the to-read list effective post-examinations; that's going to develop into an LJ-type thing all on its own as I try to Figure This Shit Out. Additionally: A History of Ideas is tonnes and tonnes of fun. Makes me want to read Latin on top of trying out for Japanese. WHY IS THERE SO LITTLE TIME IN ONE LIFETIME.

6. Mundanities: please, please, please do not rain any more than you have to, sky. Please?

For the new people on the flistie: you are under orders advisement to go to this post to claim either Christmas/non-denominational cards, random presents and/or to post your wishlist so I can ensure that your life is not a shithole of commercial fail during December! Or even earlier, for foreign types!

Also: Kinkfest, I am so sorry that my ass got kicked by you. Do you feel sorry too?

Alsoalso: logistika_nyx, I swear I will get my ass back on nasdack really soon. Soon. Hopefully. Yes, soon.

Son of also: pere_chan, I will lambast you with email, love, flailings over pretty pretty art and read your fics EVEN SOONER. Ignore my grammar, I'm kind of high on hating random family members and want to just flail love your way.

Daughter of also: livelongnmarry, I have so many ONE MONTH OVERDUE OBLIGATIONS for you that it isn't funny.

Adopted child of also: yuletide, you can start kicking my ass anytime as well.

Bastard sibling of also: ... I think I'm done.

Comments

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

You are undebatably one of the most ♥♥♥-inducing people on my flist.

I too am high on hating random family members. Let us flail lovingly at each other and throw p0rn!

Also, you have to tell me how you're organising the trip. I feel a bit of a bastard for making you relive the trauma, but I'd really like to hear how you manage logistics, what kind of guidebooks you use, etc.

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ on the Pere. Sorry I couldn't reply last night - I basically passed out. xD Well, not literally, but there you go.

Ebil family = ebil. Ignore them with much ignoring.

Trip? Well, to Toronto I'm basically just up-ing and going, seeing as how I have friends there. Japan was more complicated; a lot of reading around and buying train tickets and I can email you that stuff if you want~

[guingel.livejournal.com]

You're going to read the Bible!?!?? YAAAAAAAAY!! I recommend Genesis, the first half of Exodus, basically all of the Ketuvim, especially Job and anything about David or Solomon. And then Matthew and definitely Romans and Corinthians 1 and GALATIANS and Thessalonians 1 and Revelation. Oh, and Philemon! :D I will answer all your Paul-related questions and can tell you which ones he didn't write!!

I don't like John or the Prophets but actually I think you might enjoy them. Just. . . don't come to me for help. XD I can help you with Leviticus more than the Prophets. Stay away from Deuteronomy if you can. :D

I dont' know why I'm assuming you will be consulting me on this. XD I just. . . I paid so much money to study this! XD

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

Yep! After a long conversation with my parents about my failing to get Christianity, they've eased up a bit and now I feel much, much more comfortable reading the book as myself as opposed to "kid who is getting coerced into believing". 8D But man, I do love the historicity of the text in addition to the moral/religious base material, so YAY THAT I HAVE YOU TO SNUGGLE UP TO WHEN THE NAMES AND OLD-TIME-PLACES START TO GET CONFUSING.

\o Did you study a certain edition? The one I have is sadly not KJV, and sounds kind of D: sometimes, so I may just interwebz my way through this.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

Oops, I got this comment notification when I couldn't respond and then forgot. D:

I read the Harper Collins Study Bible, which I ADORE. :D :D :D It has little subject headers like "Jesus heals the man with dropsy" and "Sexual immorality defiles the chuch." I once made an LJ friend because we both loved the HCSB. But I've used a couple of others - the key is the New Revised Standard Version translation. It's not as literary as the KJV but it doesn't lie through it's teeth.

[dnatio-memoriae.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

because: *has never been /ordered/ to want something for christmas*

and: family of alsos is highly amusing.

Will get around to a wishlist when uni stops kicking /my/ ass (within a couple of days hopefully).

Trips sound exciting! How long, where, when and with who?

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

ORDER DAMN IT. ♥

I'm heading to Toronto in December with my own bad self (hoping not to die on my first solo), and then down to Tokyo later in January with a coupla friends. 8D 8D

[scheherezhad]

*loves on you* That is all. :D

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

*loves back!*

[ellnyx.livejournal.com]

I am the bastard sibling of also, for I am done to death.

~ z_Z ~

The bible is fun, if you let yourself skim when you want to. It's also a lot more interesting reading Pratchett and Gaiman first, and then reading the bible; a little bit like seeing the Simpson's version of Space Odyssey 2001 and then seeing the real version, and going: OHHHHHHH, so that's what they meant.

Stopping now.

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

*revives you* Mmm, dead people.