Below are the most recent 7 friends' journal entries.

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
pui_puni	2:09a	Corpus Christi Written Thereon... Me singing "Corpus Christi Carol" at the Carols and Lessons Service last Sunday. The lyrics are very beautiful... Lully lullay, lully lullay, The faucon hath born my mayke away. He bare hym up, he bare hym down, He bare hym into an orchard brown. In that orchard ther was an hall, That was hanged with purpill and pall. And in that hall ther was a bede, Hit was hanged with gold so rede. And yn that bed ther lythe a knyght, His wowndes bledyng day and nyght. By that bedes side kneleth a may, And she wepeth both nyght and day. And by that bedes side ther stondith a ston, "Corpus Christi" wretyn theron. I was REALLY not feeling well in this video >_O; I had a very sore throat and other flu symptoms. Regardless, people said I sounded/looked alright. I can tell though there were a few parts I was really struggling to keep it up lol. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
inept	10:14p	you better shape up, cause I need a man - and my heart is set on you I bought a netbook from Amazon last week and eeeeee it will arrive soon! I am excited. It will be like a christmas gift from myself: no more hand-cramping in class. (Practically the best gift ever omg.) I finished my christmas shopping officially today, and now I just have to do a bit of assembling. Of what? I'll put it here after Christmas, but I have a few people who are receiving my crafty gifts on my lj flist sooo yeah. No pictures for you yet. I also managed to purchase a pearl necklace and a good bra for the dress I'm wearing to my cousin's wedding, so all kinds of things have been finished up today. Which leaves my days free for baking!! This evening I started a batch of gingerbread people dough which is currently chilling in the fridge. I'm also planning just plain old gingerbread cake, some applesauce bread, maybe a batch of molasses crinkles, and if I have the audience for it (as it were) I'm going to make a chocolate candy-cane cake. Or cupcakes, depending. About halfway through this list I'm going to wish I brought my Kitchenaid home for Christmas. Josh and I managed to have a pretty good Chanukkah. We fumbled giving each other presents every night and we left the dreidel at the apartment when we came home to my parents' and we ate porkchops for dinner the third night and I possibly may have broken the shammus once or twice (thank goodness for extra candles is all I can say) but we enjoyed ourselves and I didn't screw up his traditions and we lit the candles every night for eight days and didn't miss a single one. I'm trying to figure out where the line is between respecting/accepting his Jewish heritage and just deciding that my fiance is a Jewish boy. He isn't A Jewish Boy, he's the culmination of a lot of different traditions and faiths and bloodlines, and it's tricky gathering all of those up in a way that I can nicely pay respect to and incorporate in our life together without pigeonholing him into one tradition at a time. We're not going to have a Jewish wedding (as much as I would love a chair dance, LOL) because neither of us are practicing Jews. We're not going to have a Christian wedding because neither of us are practicing Christians. We're not going to have a Pagan wedding because neither of us are practicing Pagans. Etc etc etc, except throw in all our various backgrounds and religions and suchlike. But we are talking about having two officiants... one his Native American grandmother (who's already ordained and good to marry us) and one my Presbyterian missionary aunt, to represent both of our families coming together with us. Today I was listening to Barenaked For The Holidays (the Barenaked Ladies holiday CD, lol) while mixing up gingerbread dough and one of the Chanukkah songs queued up and I thought "well wait, here we are trying to be at least a little bit cognizant of his Ashkenazi Jewish roots, shouldn't we do something for that in our wedding?" And so now I am guiltily looking at ketubot on the internet and trying to figure out if this is even something you're allowed to do if you're not having a rabbi officiate. Some of these are stupid gorgeous you guys. And through my internet learnings I have found that they're mostly just um... prenuptial contracts? But for most new age-y Jews it's pretty much just wedding vows on a contract, like "I will love and support you" etc. Emotional promises. Which I really like, a lot. Anyway so there's a big long post about my confusion over Jewishness. Congratulations, you are done reading it now. (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
inept	3:50p	Okay, time for an ~*~actual post~*~. My last real life update was about two weeks ago when I was only a third done with one of my two research papers. On Wednesday evening last week I started my second paper and got to 9 pages on my 15 page socioling research proposal. On Thursday I finished my portfolio for Hinduism, my presentation for my Hinduism final paper, my Hinduism final paper, and my socioling research proposal. Friday and Saturday were spent editing those and studying for my polisci final on Monday, Sunday was just studying and going to bed early so I could wake up the next morning. Monday morning I woke up at 7am. Got out the door. Took my final (which went bloody great). Turned in my two papers. Dropped by the convenience store for some milk. And went home. And it was wonderful. I'm still processing the fact that fall term is over; it was an insane quarter full of madness and GRE studying and many papers and tests and existential crises. (Do I really want to be a librarian? Am I doing the right thing? What if I can't get a job? Am I actually really stupid and everybody pities me too much to actually tell me so? Et cetera.) Monday night Darcy and I made a really lovely dinner using fresh-made wild mushroom ravioli from Pasta & Co, some really lovely alfredo, Sofia Coppola sparkling blush wine, and zucchini sautéed in olive oil, in a celebration of the end of the quarter and to make Josh feel special. I also got drunk off my ass and helped Josh with his final paper. Yes, while drunk. I was apparently extremely helpful and gave thoughtful advice and was extremely coherent and organized. Meanwhile, I do not remember any of this. Apparently I should do everything while drunk. Except maybe not write emails to my sister. Josh and I came home to my parents' house on Tuesday evening, Daisy in tow. We drank rosé and talked about Christmas. Yesterday we got up at 8:30 and made a big hobo scramble with mushrooms, onions, green peppers, cheddar, and salsa. We went Christmas shopping. Went out for sushi. Saw The Princess And The Frog. Today I woke up at 11am and am as yet still wearing pajamas at 3:40pm. Josh and I have been spending our time writing (jointly - every day has something new to remind me that I'm getting married) christmas cards to our relatives and talking about Christmas. (We went by Cost Plus yesterday and finally managed to find real Chanukkah gelt, so last night's menorah lighting was much more traditional.) Also: Darcy got Josh and my parents together to buy me a new digital camera - the Canon PowerShot SD1200 in blue! It made me feel stupidly loved, because it's a $200 camera that's everything I wanted and couldn't bring myself to actually ask for for Christmas. It's even the color I wanted! So I've been taking ( lots of pictures. ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
inept	9:39p	THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG IS REALLY REALLY REALLY GREAT THAT IS ALL (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, December 11th, 2009
inept	5:26p	happy first night of Chanukkah. :) I'm celebrating for the first time with Josh, who does this sort of thing. I made latkes for the first time and OMGGG they are amazing. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
pui_puni	4:18p	Another Random Photo My singing teacher, Brian Powers Smith, and I! He is immensely musically talented. He's a pianist, organist and former tenor in the Opéra de Montréal. He's been the music director at my church for almost 50 years. He is being forced to retire this January. He's taught me everything I know about music, and I owe any future musical career to him. He's always been much too kind to me. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
pui_puni	10:29a	Winter Wonderland (11 Comments |Comment on this)