badstar

Jun. 19th, 2007

Well, I talked to Caryn. I will take my Dedicant's Oath this Saturday during our Summer Solstice ritual, then all I will need to do is write about it. I've asked one person to read over the oath that I've written so far. (Someone who will not be in attendance on Saturday...I must say I'm feeling a tad superstitious and plan to not let anyone who will be there read it beforehand. I could not, for the longest time, figure out how I wanted to write it, or what I wanted to say, then one night I happened upon a web link for the church of Thessaly and found the Thessalian Oath:

The Thessalian Oath

I will not disgrace the sacred arms nor abandon the person next to me, whoever it may be.

I will fight for things sacred and against things profane, both alone and with others to help me.

I will transmit the knowledge given me, not lessened, but greater and better than I received it.

I will obey the rules and I will observe established laws, and whatever laws in the future may be reasonably established.

If any person or group seeks to overturn our laws, or to bring harm to any Thessalian, I will oppose it with strength and courage, both alone and with my fellow Thessalians.

I will honor the gods and goddesses of our ways and keep the sacred flame alive.

I call as witness to this oath, the Gods, the borders of my homeland, the wheat, the barley, the vines, and the trees of the olive and the fig.

This inspired me a bit. I liked the style in which it was written, and it gave me some ideas...no, my own oath does not really resemble this, except perhaps rather vaguely in writing style. But it gave me a start to work off of, and I am happy with that which I have written.

So my last dye job is pretty well faded out, I've got all kinds of roots. I bought some more brown dye the other day.

In a most amusing conversation,

chironcentaur asked if I wasn't going to dye it pink again, and I said that I was going to keep it brown for a while. It hasn't been my natural shade since 1998, and this color is about as close as I'm going to get in a dye, and besides...it's something of a novelty to have regular brown hair.

To which she commented something about the state of things (I can't remember precisely what was said) when it's a novelty to have brown hair.

Speaking of hair, I should get a trim.

Hunt Valley smells like gingerbread tonight. Which is a far site better than some of the odors that emanate from McCormick from time to time.

On a slightly less pleasant note...uhg, it's steamy and sticky and just plain...ick.

Don't laugh, but I really want to listen to some John Denver right now...but I don't have any on my computer.

Oh wait...my ipod...I have some on my ipod....

I made a bunch of user pics! I know they're not the absolute greatest quality, but I did what I could with what I have available- that is, MS paint and the LJ upload and crop utility. But still, I don't think they're too bad. The buttons all come from a graphic that one of my coworkers emailed to me. Take and use as you see fit, I could care less if you give me credit in your user pics section...who looks at that anyway?