Thursday Random Thoughts
Doing research for work and found this legend about the beginnings of maple syrup. Fits in perfectly with my Vice Theory (yes, it is now in capital letters).
Nokomis
The Legend of Nokomis (the land), tells about Nokomis’ granddaughter, Manabush tasting the drips after Nokomis had tapped the maple tree to collect syrup. Manabush felt that men would get lazy if all they had to do was to poke the tree, so she grabbed a bucket of water, climbed the maple tree and poured water into the center of the tree, diluting the sweet sap to only 1% to 2% sugar, She made it necessary for men to always work hard to get the syrup.
Quoted on http://vermontpuremaplesyrup.com/History_Vermont_Pure_Maple_Syrup.asp
Just saw the trailer for the next Harry Potter movie. Exciting! They’re getting darker and darker.. I love it! And the next book comes out in July too… or June?? I already preordered it from Borders. : )
Speaking of darker, I’m getting pretty far in my Jung book. It’s complicated, but interested. I like the part about the shadow and the animus. Basically the shadow is the part of you where the stuff your ego has repressed goes. And the animus (anima for men) is the masculine part of my soul. I’d like to delve more into it. I do have another Jung book sitting on my bookshelf, though I should probably take a break and at least finish Veronica, which I was liking a lot. Only so much time for reading though.
Been dreaming like a mofo! Was telling John about my dream and I noticed I’ve been dreaming a lot about luggage and travelling. One I was in a train station and we had a shitload of luggage. J was standing in the entry to the station motioning for me to bring all the luggage over there. So I carried 2 things then went back for me, and someone had stolen it all.
Next night, we’re at BWI (but it was way nicer in my dream. blech! what a pit!) and I was carrying the Nikon on my shoulder and I kept asking J if it was ok like that. He got annoyed and told me to put it in my backpack, then he disappeared, or I wandered off or somethign. He came back with paper tickets and boarding passes. He was very snippy. Then we were supposed to go to gate F20 and of course we’re running because we’re late and we see every gate except F20. Then all of a sudden he turns into this girl Alison from work and she finds F20 written on a fire extinguisher, really small and there is a closed door with no markings. She was being timid and I yelled “Open the damn door!” and she did and there were friendly flight attendants, and everything was fine.
Had piano tonight. Linda seemed impressed with how I’m coming along on my recital songs. She’s funny. We do more talking than playing, but whatever.
My brother in law got into an accidnet on the highway today. He’s ok, despite the fact that he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. I don’t want to call him an idiot, but well… Then my sister in law apparently said something derogatory about me because I don’t want to have kids. Well, whatever.
Football draft is coming up. For once, I really don’t have high hopes for my team. They’ve been bad for so long I can barely remember when they were good. It’s just a distant memory of glory. : (
Well, I guess that’s enough random thoughts for one night.
