My favorite Cathedral is re-opened, and I missed it!

In which the Mahdi weirds his wife out, and bugs his nephew at the same time

Sacramento's Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament was rededicated this weekend after two years of renovations.

( Warning: The paragraph hidden by this cut-tag discusses my personal beliefs. You have been warned. Anything you can't handle is therefore your own problem. )

(Now the part that will weird my wife out, a bit)

All that stated, if I had known about the rededication yesterday, I would have gone. I may not believe in "God," but the roots of my Catholic/Christian past run deep, and I love the beauty of that cathedral. It's where I go to light candles for my mother and grandmother -- not because I think it does any real good, but because it strikes me as a reasonable way of remembering them, as I can't easily get to either of their gravesites. (My mother would doubtless prefer I light up a joint to remember her, but that's not going to happen.)

Besides, the Rite of Dedication isn't something one gets to see often. It would have been nice to see. Of course, the Rite is three hours long, and I would likely have grown bored before it was over, so all in all, maybe it's a good thing I didn't know. :)

Editted: Joke removed. Either no one got it, or they took it too seriously, so it's outta there.

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Captain Introspection, Episode 4,526,782

I give Elli a lot of crap, sometimes, about being exceptionally thin-skinned and letting too much get to her. I tell her she gets her back up too easily.

Well, let's see ... looking at myself, and how I react to people ...

Pot? Check.
Kettle? Check.
Both black as pitch? Check.

Or, as Vashti used to say, "Hey, Pot to Kettle: You're black, too!"

That's something I should keep an eye on. Not all people I think are lecturing me because they think I'm dumb are truly doing that.

Huh. With all of the "about to graduate" stuff going on, I also have been looking at myself a little more closely, lately. Mostly I think I'm ok, but there's some stuff I'm going to have to examine a lot more before I get in front of a classroom.