Weekend Activity Report

[malsperanza]

Cubic meters of old newspapers thrown away: 32

Cubic meters of old newspapers retained because, actually, I still want to read that one article: 12

Cat boxes cleaned: 0

Number of bills paid: 3

Pumpkin pies eaten: 1

Number of days needed to eat pie: 1

Chapters of Quicksilver read: 24 (short chapters, though)

Other books read: 1

Cubic meters of summer clothing put away and winter clothing unpacked: 0

Walks in the park: 1

Number of DVDs watched: 7 (see list below)

Number of times "Buckaroo Banzai" watched: 2

Visits to gym: 0

Books removed from floor and inserted on bookshelves: 20

Books remaining on floor: Vast, untold number

*Sigh* Best estimate of books remaining on floor: 60

Things filed: 8

New things arriving that need filing: 26

Percentage of studio cleaned: 15%

Number of digital-image management programs downloaded and installed: 0

Percentage of checkbook balanced: 100%

Percentage of checkbook balanced without discrepancies: 0%

Running meters of bookshelves rearranged: 600, give or take

Number of imported Venetian glass dragonflies attached to chandelier by means of intricate network of hand-strung glass beads: 2

Branches of blown-glass mistletoe attached to chandelier by means of i.n.o.h-s.g.b: 1

Number of glass leaves attached to chandelier by means of i.n.o.h-s.g.b: 9

Running feet of i.n.o.g.b. strung: A gazillion, at least

Number of movies watched while stringing i.n.o.g.b.: 7

Hours spent working on The Project: 4

Hours spent working on The Project productively: 0

Number of lamps rewired: 1

Number of important phone calls made: 2

Number of important phone calls not made: 2

Number of phone calls from mother dodged thanks to call screening: 2

Degree of appreciation for call screening: High

Hours spent gluing small things to other things: 5

Number of picture frames covered with small, colorful, random glued objects: 1

DVDs:
L'Avventura
Blood Simple
Pandaemonium
Lumiere
Buckaroo Banzai
Down by Law
Dead Man

Fun:Guilt ratio: 10:4

Comments

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

The deuce, you say! (In the case of Ahuramazda, quite literally, what with all that dualism etc.)

I guess I have a soft spot for minor Aryan sun-gods (or minor gods of the airy space between heaven and earth, depending on your translation preferences), especially in the months when the sun is dying. Also, I was in Rome in October. The Romans took Mithra out of the pantheon of Ahuramazda's underlings & made him a bigtime god of his own. One of my favorite spots in Rome is a mithraeum that lies buried under 2 levels of Christian churches (S. Clemente) and on top of an older Roman building:

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu:753/dynaweb/rinne/rome/@ebt-link?target=query(%3Cobject%3E+with+id=%22A0698%22);showtoc=true

In Rome, Mithraism was a religion of Roman soldiers who for one reason or another had rejected the official religion of the state. I suppose that, despite my political views, I feel some sympathy for soldiers abroad in the alien East.