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Last night, i got an LJ comment which posed a very interesting question:
Since you are a pagan, does this mean you just believe in elves or something a little more? Or just a RPG?
I've decided to share that answer publically, for anyone who might be interested. Feel free to ignore if you choose, to ask further questions- whatever.

Within the body of Celtic lore, folktales, legends and the like, there are all sorts of mythic beings- faerie, spirits of woods and bodies of water, even some that have remained 'in circulation' in modern times, like the Irish leprechaun, the banshee, brownies, and mermaids.

Simply because these entities were the product of a less technologically advanced culture isn't reason to discount them out of hand. From a sociologic standpoint, there is a tendancy to develop methods for explaining that which a society doesn't understand. It can be argued that this is the origin of the concept of the Divine- a god-being or beings which exist to control that which people can't grasp.

My view of the nature of the Divine is that i can't clearly disprove the existance of such a being or set of beings, and, through research into different cultures, the Divine Ones of the pre-Christian Celts fit well into my understanding of the role of how i think such creatures would interact both with each other and the world around them. In particular, i associate strongly with the goddesses Brighid and the Morrigan, the gods Manannan and Lugh.

I believe that there are some sorts of entities which are not conventionally tangible to people- or perhaps it's that we're in general too busy or preoccupied to observe them, and that they're just as happy to exist within their own realm.

I don't necessarily associate with identifying these creatures as elves, sprites, pixies or whatever. I do, emphatically, believe in the faerie, though, and find them to be as real as the Divine Ones.

Fool me once..., fool me twice....

10 am has come and gone. I've been waiting for the call yet again. My resume has both my home and mobile numbers on it. E-mail from the interviewer- he can't find the mobile number (since the company is in Mt. Vernon, and my cell number is local there, i'd mentioned that if he wanted to save the long distance, it was fine to call on the mobile). His email has his mobile number on it- a Seattle number. Weird. Why didn't he just call the home number and say that he couldn't find the other one? I was sitting with both phones, figuring either could ring.

Doubts about this company are really increasing.

Anyway, i'm past annoyed, passed pissed off, just settling down into that resigned feeling.

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Anyone here have any experience with Movable Type? I'm thinking about deploying it and using it to blog writing-related stuff on my site (where i can keep it all in the same mySQL database or whatever) and trying to use that to drive creativity.

On a completely unrelated note: who the hell interviews a potential new hire without having a copy of the candidate's resume at hand? And do i really want to work for someone who can't find the mobile phone number (line four, nice bold type) on mine or will just use the home one to get in contact with me for an interview he rescheduled after blowing one off completely the previous day?

Broke out the bagpipes for a bit today. Sounded particularly horrible, but i haven't played since the fall. Fingers still worked, but the drone reeds need adjusting- the two tenor ones kept cutting out. Need to find some beeswax, too, because the chanter is loose in the stock, but not another thickness of thread worth.

And now for something completely different: i'm not feeling overly social, and haven't really for the last few weeks. If you want to spend some time with me between, say, now and the middle of May, now's the time to make a request for my time. If one of you has a request for a specific social outing or just wants to do something, don't expect to just see me out, leave me a comment or send me e-mail. It's nice having people over occasionally, but we're only running about a 60% rate of people actually making it after making some sort of plans, for whatever the reason. Rescheduling usually isn't a big deal if something has come up, but the courtesy of knowing that you're not going to make it as expediently as possible is appreciated. If you know us well enough to be invited to the house, you know the phone number- is it asking too much to expect a call if you're running really late or having problems or whatever? If you don't have a mobile phone, i'll even reimburse the cost of a call from a pay phone. I know this probably sounds really snippy, but i'm tired, bitchy, frustrated about a lot of things, and having two no-shows in the space of a week does little to restore my faith in humanity at large.