I'm trying to remember what my sister and brother went through at their Catholic high schools when JPI and his predecessor both died--I think that they had memorial masses at the schools, and the new popes were announced over the intercoms, but that was about it.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Mar 31, 2005 11:57:38 am PST #1952 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Strix - Mar 31, 2005 11:59:11 am PST #1953 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think the mass is a gimme, but we got out so many days for SB and Easter that I'd be surprised if we got a day off.
Connie Neil - Mar 31, 2005 11:59:25 am PST #1954 of 10001
brillig
It's kind of sad, remembering the Pope when he first showed up, all energetic and young-ish and non-Italian. I don't think he ever came back all the way after being shot.
Dana - Mar 31, 2005 12:00:27 pm PST #1955 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, god, I'm in a Catholic college for another five weeks. Ack.
lisah - Mar 31, 2005 12:00:40 pm PST #1956 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I'm kinda wondering what all will happen at my school when the pope dies. More masses? A day off for mourning?
I wasn't in Catholic school when the last pope died but when our diocese's bishop died when I was in (Catholic) H.S. we got the day off. Way to make a bunch of kids go "WOOOOT" at your death.
Sue - Mar 31, 2005 12:01:13 pm PST #1957 of 10001
hip deep in pie
On the CBC they said he received the anointing of the sick, not last rites. They are different, right? I haven't forgotten everything?
Connie Neil - Mar 31, 2005 12:01:21 pm PST #1958 of 10001
brillig
Way to make a bunch of kids go "WOOOOT" at your death.
At least you get a few fond thoughts as you go.
lisah - Mar 31, 2005 12:03:13 pm PST #1959 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
At least you get a few fond thoughts as you go
Exactly! I want to see if I can arrange something like that at my passing. Like endow a day off at my old high school.
Atropa - Mar 31, 2005 12:17:00 pm PST #1960 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Exactly! I want to see if I can arrange something like that at my passing. Like endow a day off at my old high school.
That would be ... well, nifty.
Jilli doll: [link] (Yes, I have an outfit that almost matches the one the doll is wearing. Fear me and my closets.)
shrift - Mar 31, 2005 12:17:39 pm PST #1961 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Huh. I have realized just now that tomorrow is April Fool's Day, and once again I have forgotten to plan an elaborate fannish prank to properly celebrate the day.
... or did I?
My coworkers are fairly prank-happy people. I'll kill them if they try anything.
No, no -- instead I think that when my spidey sense tells me that I'm about to be pranked, I'll just say, in that casually bored tone of a friendly neighborhood sociopath, "I can crash the servers, you know."