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I have a new bathtub...
Sep. 7th, 2004 09:21 pm...as I had rather guessed from the exciting new gouges in the front stairwell. Huh, wonder how the uptight/upstairs neighbor is taking this. Oh well. So, one tub, a mysteriously dead phone line, and a few 2x4s that will be the joists for a little tiny wall built out around the steam pipe. Today's progress is not as impressive as yesterday's, but that's not surprising since it clearly involved the contractor driving to Home Depot to get the tub. Tra la.
Work was nice today, except for my almost falling asleep at about 1:30 and (therefore) drinking a second cup of coffee and (therefore) sweating on my shirt. Then I went to the tanning place to get a second Mystic Tan, because it takes two sessions to build up to full color, and now I'm faintly sticky. The tanning thing is fun though. I'd like to say I look stupid and artificial, but I actually look great, so all I can do is applaud the advances in technology. Skin color's a fun thing to play around with (and, it doesn't fail to impinge on my consciousness, is a nice way for HLM to get some sexual variety without me feeling weird, since I'm not at all insecure about being pale in the first place but I don't mind being darker either). My only complaint is that I can't get "California Girls" out of my head.
Much against my basic inclinations, I'm reading The World's Religions, a book that takes an annoyingly rosy view of every religion on earth but at least gives one a basic idea of what all the major faiths are and what their believers believe. The author is at least aware of the rosiness and actually has a rationale for it, which is nice. I alternate between enjoying certain passages and certain thoughts immensely and then cringing at the beliefs. Grahhh! If only we--as in humanity--didn't have to take all the good philosophies and twirl them all up with having to believe in so many stupid stories! And if only we weren't so social about our every spiritual thought, thus muddying them all up with politics. If I make it though this I may have to read Why God Won't Go Away next. Or maybe The Death of Faith (which makes a case for that being a good thing, and would be a very refreshing read after what I'm reading now).
Amusing aside: HLM gave his dad a copy of Why God Won't Go Away a couple of years ago for Xmas. I've been wishing ever since that I had given him a copy of Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now! at the same time. Should've... I so should've. :)
Work was nice today, except for my almost falling asleep at about 1:30 and (therefore) drinking a second cup of coffee and (therefore) sweating on my shirt. Then I went to the tanning place to get a second Mystic Tan, because it takes two sessions to build up to full color, and now I'm faintly sticky. The tanning thing is fun though. I'd like to say I look stupid and artificial, but I actually look great, so all I can do is applaud the advances in technology. Skin color's a fun thing to play around with (and, it doesn't fail to impinge on my consciousness, is a nice way for HLM to get some sexual variety without me feeling weird, since I'm not at all insecure about being pale in the first place but I don't mind being darker either). My only complaint is that I can't get "California Girls" out of my head.
Much against my basic inclinations, I'm reading The World's Religions, a book that takes an annoyingly rosy view of every religion on earth but at least gives one a basic idea of what all the major faiths are and what their believers believe. The author is at least aware of the rosiness and actually has a rationale for it, which is nice. I alternate between enjoying certain passages and certain thoughts immensely and then cringing at the beliefs. Grahhh! If only we--as in humanity--didn't have to take all the good philosophies and twirl them all up with having to believe in so many stupid stories! And if only we weren't so social about our every spiritual thought, thus muddying them all up with politics. If I make it though this I may have to read Why God Won't Go Away next. Or maybe The Death of Faith (which makes a case for that being a good thing, and would be a very refreshing read after what I'm reading now).
Amusing aside: HLM gave his dad a copy of Why God Won't Go Away a couple of years ago for Xmas. I've been wishing ever since that I had given him a copy of Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now! at the same time. Should've... I so should've. :)
