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Christmas Eve!
Today was unexpectedly exhausting, but now it's Christmas.
I got presents!
From D: a share in a Holidays book he wrote and illustrated for me, R., and B.
From B: a CD collection of 110 photos from his daily life in Portland.
From R: a gorgeous green tencel blouse from Zona; DVDs: Vicar of Dibley: A Holy Wholly Happy Ending, Princess Mononoke, Topkapi, Forbidden Planet, and the first 14 episodes of Avonlea, aka Road to Avonlea; books: Lucia Victrix by E.F. Benson (part two of the Mapp & Lucia omnibus), Journeys from the Centre of the Earth by Iain Stewart (companion book for the Hot Rocks series on culture and geology), Sahara (companion book for the Michael Palin series of that name), and Sacred Geometry by Stephen Skinner.
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fractal9091: a new DragonCon t-shirt, a phoenix pendant/spinner thing from a fantasy card game, and chocolates.
Dinner: smoked salmon, Wensleydale cheese (as in Wallace and Gromit), Moroccan orzo salad, baguette, cherry cider. Then we watched the Vicar of Dibley DVD, in which she gets handsome Richard Armitage (not the one who comes up first in Wikipedia, askudzita will tell you).
Update, 12:56 a.m. Attended midnight mass at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, as I did three years ago. I love singing traditional carols, and they have a Brombaugh organ and a beautiful, open-beamed room for the small congregation. Also they have a very high-quality choir, a (gay) priest with a fine singing voice (with sermons that are both intellectually and emotionally engaging, characteristic of Episcopalians in my experience), and rich traditions like the Quempas carol. And I like holding a candle in the dark.
I got presents!
From D: a share in a Holidays book he wrote and illustrated for me, R., and B.
From B: a CD collection of 110 photos from his daily life in Portland.
From R: a gorgeous green tencel blouse from Zona; DVDs: Vicar of Dibley: A Holy Wholly Happy Ending, Princess Mononoke, Topkapi, Forbidden Planet, and the first 14 episodes of Avonlea, aka Road to Avonlea; books: Lucia Victrix by E.F. Benson (part two of the Mapp & Lucia omnibus), Journeys from the Centre of the Earth by Iain Stewart (companion book for the Hot Rocks series on culture and geology), Sahara (companion book for the Michael Palin series of that name), and Sacred Geometry by Stephen Skinner.
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fractal9091: a new DragonCon t-shirt, a phoenix pendant/spinner thing from a fantasy card game, and chocolates.Dinner: smoked salmon, Wensleydale cheese (as in Wallace and Gromit), Moroccan orzo salad, baguette, cherry cider. Then we watched the Vicar of Dibley DVD, in which she gets handsome Richard Armitage (not the one who comes up first in Wikipedia, as
kudzita will tell you).Update, 12:56 a.m. Attended midnight mass at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, as I did three years ago. I love singing traditional carols, and they have a Brombaugh organ and a beautiful, open-beamed room for the small congregation. Also they have a very high-quality choir, a (gay) priest with a fine singing voice (with sermons that are both intellectually and emotionally engaging, characteristic of Episcopalians in my experience), and rich traditions like the Quempas carol. And I like holding a candle in the dark.