...do I dare to eat a peach?

No Great Matter

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
~ Edgar Allan Poe

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
~ C.S. Lewis

And Make Our Visit

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in_omnia

12 October 2010 @ 08:49 pm

by and by

This has been the quintessential Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. I haven't had a day this awful in a long, long time. Everything at work was rushed. I found out about a change in our staff and meeting schedules that bodes very ill for the next year. I expressed annoyance about something and got disdainful looks from my coworkers. And a lady I hung up on---after trying to help her for ten minutes while she disparaged my efforts and my intelligence---came in and related her dreadful experience with one of the staff. I'm grateful she didn't confront me about it, as I probably would've snapped and burst into tears, but I definitely wish said staff member had kept the visit to herself. Ignorance, in this case, is definitely bliss.

Please. Please. Please. Let tomorrow be a better day.

Day 17: Favorite Christmas carol or holiday song
"O Holy Night" is my all-time favorite Christmas carol. But I've a soft spot for "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" and can sing "Good King Wenceslas" almost word-for-word. (For that, you can blame Jonathan Brandis, who starred as the good king himself in a cheesy, made-for-TV movie.) And the Christmas season isn't complete without the entire soundtrack to The Muppet Christmas Carol, "Christmas is Coming," and "It's In Everyone of Us."

Love Song: Dayna Manning - It's In Everyone of Us

Prepare a Face:

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janeite723.livejournal.com on October 14th, 2010 02:21 pm (UTC)

I like all the carols you mentioned, especially "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" -- and I love that you put the comma in the right spot! :) So few people know that it goes after the "merry"!

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in-omnia.livejournal.com on October 15th, 2010 02:14 am (UTC)

I think it's a quirk of my mental make-up: ever since I first noticed that the comma goes after "merry," whenever I write it out, I imagine a jolly sort of gentleman lifting a cup of wassail and toasting, "God rest y'merry, gentlemen!" to all his wassail-holding fellows. Makes it impossible to put the comma anywhere else. (Which is probably what my mind is going for, come to think of it.)

I love, too, that "merry" means "mighty." I wish I had more opportunities to say, "God rest you merry," to people.

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