but if you give up chocolate for lent, isn't it yummier when you get it in the advent calendar?

i know a fair number of irreverent jokes not inappropriate for the easter season. i wonder if i know 40 of them -- doubt it. shame, really, because if i'm to share a metropolitan area with the living embodiment(s) of the erosion of civil liberties and endure all the press surrounding that nazi mel gibson's the passion of the christ (go ahead, passion-spammer, spam me, see if i care), it'd be pretty slick to be in a position to post a joke a day. or even just a punch line.

will think about this and consider compiling a list.

update: stop the clock: 20 minutes between my posting an entry with the words [that film title] in it and the passion-spam hitting my journal. interesting, though -- because i have my no-i'm-not-going-to-specify-what-kind-of-marriage entry backdated up at the top of the page, that's the entry the spammer hit, rather than the one with the title in it. ("what do you think of the film? i'm going to see it for sure." actually i would pay money, if i had to, not to see it; partly because the idea of watching that much violence makes me a little sick to my stomach, but mainly, as i said to shezan the other day, because i don't care to put another dollar of my money in mel gibson's pocket ever again.)

from joffridus via mommybird

excerpt from a sermon by canon wyatt of the national cathedral (episcopal) in washington, DC (and past which, incidentally, a motorcade would not travel on its way from the white house to the state department -- but never mind).

( this paragraph )

almost made me cry.

cambridge university

in my hand right now: a thin envelope. but! through the window, along with my name and address, i can see "application ..." (i assume "number" is what follows); "start of term"; "course"; and "receipt of ..."

it could be a rejection, of course, and this stuff is just record-keeping. or, since i can also see, through the page, "... consult the website" and "... the forms", it could be "We'd love to have you, send in more paperwork." GAH!

oh -- i've thought of a third option, which is "Your application isn't quite complete, sweetie." better open it. much less anxious now.

[eta: or -- option four -- it could be a hard copy of the e-mail they sent me two weeks ago. rar.]

[eta2: which, for those of you who don't remember, said "we got your application. this is how to track its progress. don't call us. we'll let you know."]

[eta3: um ... dudes. i totally put the first edit up there right after opening it. it's a hard copy of the e-mail. it even says "If you received that email, you do not need to take further action -- this letter simply repeats its content." i'm a little confused that since then i've had all of you carrying on about how i should open it. {wanders off to kitchen to think about dinner}]