2003-09-05 - 10:42 p.m.

Some things I can't talk about at the Tangled Hair page:

1) Our older roommates are having a terrible time adjusting to life as a volunteer. You see, they come from Rich People Consumer America, which is very different from Poor People College Student America, where the rest of us are from. And as it happens, Poor People Volunteer America is much more similar to the latter than the former. I'm worried about how our budgeting is going to go, since our grocery money is all pooled together, and since Phil is going to be doing the shopping. I don't think he's ever budgetted food before. I don't know that he would know how. Yipes!

2)When I was Catholic, people would tell me that Catholocism took a lot of things from Pagan religions. I would say, like what? And they would make some vague reference to Christmas trees, which has nothing to do with Catholic Christmas anyway.

But then i became pagan and started learning new religious systems. And then I became a volunteer in the Catholic church, and DAMN! There is so much stuff that Catholocism took from Pagan religions.

I also feel more confident in the statements of Magda and Random about how I would find plenty in the Catholic Church that would cater to my new-found paganism. Well called, ladies.

3)I met with Fr. Bruce yesterday (the pastor at the church I'll be working at), and he was telling me about how he learned that the stories of the religion were not the important part- it was what the stories meant to the community. He said, "So what does it matter if the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe isn't true, or if the story of Moses was made up by a culture over a thousand years to explain cultural customs?" I thought, Wow am I in the right place!

4) My housemate Daena has a huge crush on my housemate Fabian, and we're all kind of hoping that nothing comes of that. At least not immediately. Maybe later in the year. But if a fling started everything out, and then it ended, and then they hated each other, that would not be fun for our six-person house.

5) I really hope I don't fuck up.

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