"Strong is fighting. It's hard, and it's painful, and it's every day. It's what we have to do."

[hermionesviolin]

I misquoted that as "Life is hard, and it's fighting, and it's every day." at church book study tonight.  BtVS reference ftw.

My cold has remained at low-grade status.  I am behind on writeups (though currently caught up on tv watching) and feel like I haven't been very good at engaging with the flist.  I'm tired and feel like I'm not accomplishing much.  I have so much joy in my life, though.

I withdrew from my Medieval Church class and registered for Convo.

I have been reminded on two separate occasions this weekend how amazing my mother is.  (My father is also awesome, in case that sentence seemed to imply otherwise.)  And many thanks to my dearly beloved (in a gen way, of course) for continuing to put up with my crazy.

I'm also going to College Reunion (as I have mentioned before).  Arriving some time Thursday night, leaving some time after Graduation ceremonies on Sunday. I am very much looking forward to seeing so many people.  My only specific plans are:
* "Read With Us" sessions on Friday from 9am-1pm
* and the Saturday class dinner ("Class dinners include social hour with appetizers, salad, entrée, dessert with coffee or tea, and wine during dinner."  For only $28) social hour at 5:30, class dinner at 6:30.
I suppose I should do Ivy Day.

I'm trying to start getting more specific about dates for Europe, so I started looking at festivals in Scotland, and I think I need to be in Scotland somewhere in August 11-18 to see a new version of Euripides' The Bacchae with Alan Cumming as Dionysus.
    I think London-Wales-Belfast-Scotland-Prague makes the most sense, so the next step is to figure out if there's any specific time I should visit Prague.  I hope to get to pick Mr. Mac's brain about this as well.
[Edit: Actually, given Trelawney's stated preference for my visiting after August 18, London-Scotland-Belfast-Wales-Prague might make more sense.]

(Sidenote: Gillian, I was at a party Saturday night and chatted with a guy who's doing a Ph.D. in Celtic at Harvard and is from Cardiff -- and apparently one of his colleagues at Harvard is a Smith grad who's doing a Wales program this summer to boot.)

Comments

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

:) Is totally stolen from the girl in question -- wisdomeagle, who for a time had her LJ name as "Ari (but in a gen way, I swear!)" I see you snagged her post-dated fic index post idea (or possibly you got the idea from someone else, but when I saw your post I immediately thought of her).

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Heeee.

I think I gakked it from trollprincess when I was trawling her journal for SPN, but I've seen several people with posts like that.

*is a lemming*

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I can't handle having future-dated entries for very long on my own journal 'cause it messes with the whole "Edit Most Recent Entry" thing, but it definitely makes a lot of sense as an organizational system if you're only on LJ (as opposed to having your fic housed on an outside website).

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I can see how that would be annoying if you use the edit most recent entry function. I always pull up the twenty most recent. Don't know why.

[wisdomeagle]

In some way that's escaped me, I can make Semagic pull up the most recent regular-sequence entry and not the numerous future-dated ones when I edit.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Oh that's neat indeed. Semagic's View History function (or whatever it's called) is a decent enough workaround, but I'm pleased that a real workaround exists.

the girl in question

[wisdomeagle]

It seems to be (at least in my release, which is probably old) View --> Settings --> History --> "Load last today's entry" tickybox should be ticked.