Arizona State has more Catholics than Notre Dame according to this video.

So, where have I been?  My leg has been healing over the past few weeks.  The freezing tip seems to be working.  The other Saturday I lifted a heavy box without thinking, but otherwise I manage to avoid having really bad days anymore. 

At mass today I made a mistake during the Prayers of the Faithful.  I said, "Let us pray to the Love," instead of "Let us pray to the Lord," at the end of one of the petitions.  Oops!  My mother said that it was a Freudian slip.  I guess I could have said something even more embarassing.  As usual, Father Milt gave another great homily, so hopefully people will remember that more than my slip up. 

Well, I'm falling asleep here at the computer, so maybe I should go to bed.  This episode of SG1 is a repeat anyway.  I think I might go to CopperCon tomorrow.  We'll see.

Thanks to felgild for this quiz:

?? Which Angel Or Demon Are You ??

Magic
Take this quiz!

Quizilla | Join | Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code

I finally retyped my review of Friendship Sunday as I had promised.

Thanks for the return welcome similar_stranger, felgild, and bassaf. It's nice to be missed. I miss reading my subs, and hope to return to reading my online friends' exploits soon. But for now, I thought I'd finish up posting my thoughts on .

So, normally when I am sent a link to an online comic I'll go read it. If I liked it or am otherwise intrigued, I'll attempt to start from the beginning and read up to the current entry. Short archives I'll usually make it through if it's a quality comic. Long archives usually defeat me, as I eventually lose interest or run out of time. Yet I'll bookmark the site and promise myself that I'll read the rest when I have some spare time and inclination. QC was so engrossing that I couldn't send myself to bed, instead reading hundreds of comics a night until I couldn't concentrate on reading another. Then I'd crash on the couch, too tired to go to bed.

In two nights I completed 650+ comics, so when I woke up the morning of the third day I finished the rest. Then, craving more, I decided the best thing to do was blog it out. And unlike other things which I have wanted to blog about in this past month, I finally did (and still am several days later). I think the main thing is that I empathise with the characters.

As a pre-adolescent I was verbally cruel to those who were closest to me and I was totally unable to allow courtship between myself and interested parties. Faye has these traits due to the trauma of seeing her father commit suicide, while I had these traits following my parents' divorce. Luckily, therapy did help me out of that.

As an adolescent I was able to hang with the ladies and fit in as the nice, safe guy, just as Marten does. I think that stems from many of my family activities growing up being with my mother and grandmother. Since college I've been unable to get a group of female friends like I did in high school. Most of my female friends these days are in mixed groups, and paired off with someone. I did have a lot of fun earlier this year when Kim, Lisa, Trevor, and I hung out to clean Lisa's old apartment before she turned over the keys to the management. There's something special about the group dynamic when hanging with ladies that isn't there when hanging out in mixed gender groups or all guy groups. It's definately something I miss in my life.

I recall when in college my friend Nich warned me that our friend Sheila had designs on me. I totaly dismissed him. Yet, a few weeks later we were seeing each other. The obliviousness of myself and the suddenness of the relationship reminds me of Marten and Dora.

The cast's desire to not be caught up in societal norms is definately something which anyone who knows me knows has always been a part of my personality. Marten's willingness to take things slow with women and wait for them is definately a trait of mine. His willingness to take physical harm without vengence in mind when said violence was not intended in a negative way is also a trait of mine. (I winced at the threat to his shins!)  I, too, have a crazy cat and a penchant for black clothing without being goth, as Dora does. 

I've always enjoyed angst in my literature and music whether it be horror stories or unrequited love songs. This comic has a great mix of angst and levity, all with a healthy dose of reality. It features amazingly well-crafted foreshadowing. character development, and continuity.  Although I have absolutely no indie cred, no emo cred, no gothic cred, no interest in alcoholic beverages, et cetera, I "get" QC. It's joined Onna Chance as one of the only two online comics I check regularly.

Now that I've journaled it all out, I feel a whole heck of a lot more whole.  :^)  God bless y'all this Labour Day Weekend!

Your Quirk Factor: 75%

You're so quirky, it's hard for you to tell the difference between quirky and normal. No doubt about it, there's little about you that's "normal" or "average."

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." ~Horace Walpole