the angels and the devils are within us
Sep. 29th, 2007 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ella_mennoHELLO INTERNETS I HAVE MISSED YOOOOOOOOOOU!!
Yeah, so, a little trouble with the connectivity earlier this week. Hmph.
Item the first:
Okay, I knew that when we put the kids in school, our budget would be affected – obviously, there’s the tuition. And I knew we’d be paying for hot lunches as well.
But there are just so many incidental expenses that I either forgot about or had no idea existed! Field trips! Fundraisers! Snack money! Milk money (because that’s separate from lunch money – who knew?)! Class parties! School-wide parties! Extracurricular activities! Basketball! Cub Scouts! And the Scouts/sports have their own set of fundraisers!
It’s just. Yeesh. It kind of piles up, and I feel like I’ve done nothing so much as write checks to the school for the past four weeks, and I don’t really see it tapering off anytime sooon.
Oh well; it was past time to revamp the budget, anyway. *sigh*
Item the second: not only did I miss Smallville’s season premiere on Thursday night – I didn’t even care about it. Really, the only thing I actually missed was talking to my girls during the commercials. [Which I would’ve done, had Ia) not been at a fundraiser;
2) remembered it was Thursday;
and/or D) received your voicemail prior to,oh, about an hour ago. Pfft.]
It’s kind of amazing to me when I remember a few years ago, how SV was, like, the Huge Fannish Love of My Life*, and now I’m not only not watching it, I’m not even trolling around online so that I can catch up with what happened. (Though I do gather that rumors of Lana’s demise were greatly exaggerated, to which I have to say: wow. Could I be less surprised? *thinks* Nope; not really.)
Item the third: Mom and I joined an exercise program. Yay, us. Not that y'all really care, but I do have to mention this one teeny fact – on the information sheet we had to fill out before joining, the very last question was along the lines of “give two reasons you want to get into better shape.”
I don’t remember what I ACTUALLY wrote down, but I do know that my immediate impulse was to write down Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. Now you tell me – is that so wrong?
Erm. Maybe?
Item the fourth: I tend to jot down stuff in a variety of notebooks that end up scattered all over everywhere. Just found one that must’ve been stuck somewhere for a couple of months, ‘cause it has a bunch of ideas and such that were obviously sparked by AHBL ½, at the end of last season.
Here are a few:
- is a soul a “good” or a “service”? a piece of property? a state of being?
-in general, who is the legal owner of a soul? Who owns Dean’s soul right now?
- does the demon have the right and/or authority to purchase and/or barter for souls? For that matter, does Dean?
- what are the exact terms of the deal Dean made?
-what can invalidate a verbal contract of the type Dean made with the demon?
-what law, if any, is the contract subject to? Is there any higher authority that can be consulted if any part of the deal is in question?
Which reminds me, I would really love to read a story wherein the demon comes to collect and can’t (I know, you’re thinking there are a hundred of those already!) – except the reason the demon can’t take possession of Dean's soul is because it legally belongs to the Impala. *smiles*
Back to your weekends, people!
Yeah, so, a little trouble with the connectivity earlier this week. Hmph.
Item the first:
Okay, I knew that when we put the kids in school, our budget would be affected – obviously, there’s the tuition. And I knew we’d be paying for hot lunches as well.
But there are just so many incidental expenses that I either forgot about or had no idea existed! Field trips! Fundraisers! Snack money! Milk money (because that’s separate from lunch money – who knew?)! Class parties! School-wide parties! Extracurricular activities! Basketball! Cub Scouts! And the Scouts/sports have their own set of fundraisers!
It’s just. Yeesh. It kind of piles up, and I feel like I’ve done nothing so much as write checks to the school for the past four weeks, and I don’t really see it tapering off anytime sooon.
Oh well; it was past time to revamp the budget, anyway. *sigh*
Item the second: not only did I miss Smallville’s season premiere on Thursday night – I didn’t even care about it. Really, the only thing I actually missed was talking to my girls during the commercials. [Which I would’ve done, had I
2) remembered it was Thursday;
and/or D) received your voicemail prior to,oh, about an hour ago. Pfft.]
It’s kind of amazing to me when I remember a few years ago, how SV was, like, the Huge Fannish Love of My Life*, and now I’m not only not watching it, I’m not even trolling around online so that I can catch up with what happened. (Though I do gather that rumors of Lana’s demise were greatly exaggerated, to which I have to say: wow. Could I be less surprised? *thinks* Nope; not really.)
Item the third: Mom and I joined an exercise program. Yay, us. Not that y'all really care, but I do have to mention this one teeny fact – on the information sheet we had to fill out before joining, the very last question was along the lines of “give two reasons you want to get into better shape.”
I don’t remember what I ACTUALLY wrote down, but I do know that my immediate impulse was to write down Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. Now you tell me – is that so wrong?
Erm. Maybe?
Item the fourth: I tend to jot down stuff in a variety of notebooks that end up scattered all over everywhere. Just found one that must’ve been stuck somewhere for a couple of months, ‘cause it has a bunch of ideas and such that were obviously sparked by AHBL ½, at the end of last season.
Here are a few:
- is a soul a “good” or a “service”? a piece of property? a state of being?
-in general, who is the legal owner of a soul? Who owns Dean’s soul right now?
- does the demon have the right and/or authority to purchase and/or barter for souls? For that matter, does Dean?
- what are the exact terms of the deal Dean made?
-what can invalidate a verbal contract of the type Dean made with the demon?
-what law, if any, is the contract subject to? Is there any higher authority that can be consulted if any part of the deal is in question?
Which reminds me, I would really love to read a story wherein the demon comes to collect and can’t (I know, you’re thinking there are a hundred of those already!) – except the reason the demon can’t take possession of Dean's soul is because it legally belongs to the Impala. *smiles*
Back to your weekends, people!
