Well, that's that

[mythicfox]

Well, I just turned in my Argumentative Paper for my English class. I've got a good feeling about it; the teacher, as I mentioned before, only had very few criticisms about it. If anyone wants, I might put it somewhere and put a link up here (as it's 11 pages long, including a works cited page, I'm certainly not going to be posting it here).

In other news, this past Sunday I attended the baptism of Cousin Jimmy's adopted daughter, Zoe. She's originally from the country of Belarus, and she's still an infant (although I admittedly don't know her exact age, and haven't thought to ask). The ceremony took about a half-hour or so, most of it involving Zoe constantly crying the entire time up until the point where the priest finished. I'm not going to deny, there are times like that when I really think to myself that I'm not sure if I ever want kids as I doubt I'd have the patience.

At least being treated to lunch at Muriale's afterwards made it worth it. Y'see, there's an unwritten law that whenever you get a bunch of Italians together for a gathering-- particularly a religious gathering-- then at some point where will be a mass pilgrimage to a local restaurant as part of the celebration. I had some of the best raviolis I've had in years, and that place has fantastic bread.

*glances up from the computer for a brief moment at someone across the computer lab* Fucking hell, dude, keep your shirt pulled down. I'm not in fantastic shape, I'll admit, but if you can't keep your shirt tucked in over the gallons of flab you have hanging over your jeans then get a bigger fucking shirt. Or a better belt. Either way, you're being fucking disgusting. *sighs and turns his attention back to the computer*

In other news, I've been loving the previews I've been reading for Werewolf: The Forsaken and the stuff I've been hearing from GenCon SoCal certainly isn't hurting. I was sold on the book before, but I'm feeling even better and better about it. My friend Sean, who was having some pretty extreme negative knee-jerk reactions about some of the early previews, is starting to be sold on the game, and that's something right there. But the more I read, the more I friggin' love it. All of it. I'm not sure if I can handle waiting until an official demo game is posted on the site.

Anyhow, I think that's all the news that's fit to type for the moment. I'll do my LARP updates a little later tonight, most likely. But for now, I'm strongly debating a trip to the Book n Bean.

Comments

[brian-pegasus.livejournal.com]

I don't ever want to have kids. Can't beat free food :)

I wonder if that dude ever heard of baggy clothes :/

[innocent-man.livejournal.com]

Tell ya something about infants: When they cry, it's for a reason. They don't want to cry, and they don't understand spite or anger or jealousy. Normally, they cry because they're hungry or tired (both of which are easy fixes), but as they get older, they'll cry because they're bored, frightened or dirty (girls start caring about being dirty earlier than boys, I'm told).

But even young babies will cry out of pain or fear, it's just not very common (and if it is, something's wrong). Pouring water on a baby's head it going to startle her, especially if in an unfamiliar environment or if the water's cold.

(I'm not a big fan of baptising infants, can ya tell?) :)

As for Werewolf, I just looked at the proof for the chapter I wrote. Not only am I thrilled that a lot of what I wrote is still there (never a sure thing when you're doing mechanics), the artwork and layout is pretty frickin' spectacular.

[mythicfox.livejournal.com]

Well, intellectually, I know there's a reason for the crying. And whenever I mention to folks that I'm not sure if I could handle raising kids they generally give me the "it'll be different when it's your kid" argument. But there's something about an infant crying that plays with your spine like a xylophone (which I'm sure is at least partially an evolutionary thing to make sure parents are noticing that there's offspring in danger), and the acoustics of a Catholic church don't exactly dampen the effect.

I admit I found little Zoe's sense of timing interesting, though. Even though very little changed in terms of noises going on and events happening, she stopped crying at almost the exact moment the priest said the final words (and she'd started crying right at the beginning, long before any of the holy water or blessed olive oil came into play). There was still the same amount of noise in the church afterwards, from people congratulating my Cousin Jimmy and such. But it's like she decided she could stop annoying the priest at that particular moment in time.

Of course, I don't know how old Zoe is, so there's a chance she's just old enough to understand boredom and that was the cause. I know I wasn't too far off from that sort of reaction, myself. ;)

Personally, I'm not a big fan of baptising infants, myself, just for the record. In any case, Zoe was a lot more well-behaved at the restaurant, and I can live with that.

Thanks for the insight, though. I appreciate it.

mmm

[rick2tails.livejournal.com]

now you have me hungry for italian food ;p *decides to go out to eat*