"Opportunity will soon knock. When it does, answer the door!"

It's the Fornacalia today, or at least, that's what we think; sources differ as to the exact date. It's sometime in early February, at least. The Fornacalia is a holy day honoring Fornax, goddess of baked goods. No, seriously. Ovid, in the Fasti, said: "They made the oven into a goddess of that name [Fornax]; delighted with her, the farmers prayed that she would temper the heat to the corn committed to her charge. At the present day the Prime Warden (Curio Maximus)60 proclaims in a set form of words the time for holding the Feast of Ovens [Fornacalia], and he celebrates the rites at no fixed date..."

Fornax made things rise and bake properly. Thus, she is goddess of baked goods. Her festival was honored by roasting grain in ovens in the Forum in the ancient fashion.

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I have to show my English teacher my journal, so I'm transferring it to Word... everything since the 16th. Guess how long it is in Word. Forty pages. And that's after I took out five different little side-note entries that I didn't think were neccessary, like that one on my fanfiction, and I took out all the images and stuff. Man.

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Hmm... nothing happened today.

My theory is that if my dreams are long and interesting, my day will be mundane, so my readers don't have to slog through two long entries in a day.

I have a quote, though (muchly paraphrased, I don't remember exactly what she said): "We should all pitch in and send [KTMack] a cake for Valentine's Day, and have it delivered. It should say: "HA HA, YOU'RE SINGLE! THAT SUCKS!"

...meanest thing ever. Only thing meaner would be if I (his former girlfriend) was the one to send it...

What My Dreams Mean...

My dreams seem to show that I'm a bit disturbed... but nothing serious. I may have a problem I'm trying to work out in my sleep. Overall, I'm very content in my life. Comparatively, at least. My dreams indicate that I have very conflicted feelings. I have a very vivid imagination and a rich creative mind.

What Do Your Dreams Mean?

"At 20 the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgement"*

Today is the Women's Festival of Juno. That's when married women or those who'd like to be married celebrate Juno, or Hera as she is known in some circles. Queen of gods, goddess of matrimony- you get the idea.

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So two days ago I realized that I had totally screwed up my schedule, and Tuesdays are not free, as I though, but rather occupied by Englishy, Biology-y activities. So I missed my first two classes. Oops. Way to go, Sherlock.

But it's resolved, and I've talked to my teachers and apologized profusely. Anyway, dealing with that is basically why I didn't post a real entry until today, and why there was the random not-related-to-reality post right before this one, the one about Mary Sues that you didn't have to read because it has very little to do with my life.

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Besides the Bio/English screw up, I have discovered more scheduling changes. Like I can go to the Communication Skills group after all, which is exciting and means that I will possibly actually learn to talk to boys without being all "durrrrr...." That starts in like three weeks.

Also, I can take my Latin class and get credit and all. This is good. I like credit. Especially considering that my father was FLIPPING OUT about the possibility that this would not be the case.

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Libentra's in some of my classes! This is a YAY thing because we thought we wouldn't have any classes together this semester, and consequently would go into withdrawal from each other after our blatant mutual overexposure last semester. She's taking Chem with me (she's Honors and I'm not, but hey, we get to sit together in lecture) and Latin again.

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Loquatia and I are most likely going to be going to swing dance classes, or maybe salsa, together. She wanted something fun to try when she can't play tennis. That should be cool. Except I have to play the guy 50% of the time, apparently. I can't do the guy's part, it requires actual thought.

I went to yoga yesterday, and I plan to go tomorrow. This out to be interesting. I left yoga feeling relaxed, and yet, sore, sort of like how I'd expect to feel if I'd been beaten all over by several thugs and then dosed with sedatives. How's that for imagery, professor?

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That reminds me- I have to keep a daily journal for English. This is not really a problem for me. I'm not going to write yet another journal, though, I'm gonna print out my blog, minus the really long entries with little or no relevance to real life. Like... the previous one.

I thought about recording the one beautiful thing I make a point of noticing every day, but you know, thinking about one lovely thing is nice, but if you start listing them or recording them for posterity you start to sound poetic and I think I'd be ripping off thiel's ideas of living your poetry.

Besides, mustn't reveal my depthitude. I'm pretentious and self-involved enough as it is.


*I'm kinda tempted to make a comment about 70 and the bladder but I figure that would be mean coming from someone who's still in the "will" section of life.**

**This is not a comment like saying "No comment" is not a comment. Insert me smiling here.