Warning- rant on e-cards.. may offend those that like to use them!

YUP. E-cards. Ok, so I get that sometimes it's nice to send out a fun little "hey I was thinking about you" message... and in these cases, using an "e-card" is acceptable as it's much more fun than just an email. But, let me make something clear, the use of e-cards for birthdays, holidays, anniversary's and the like is just rude. I said it. RUDE. Oh, and let's not forget the fact that everyone in your address book got the same cheesy, "I hope you have a great holiday season. Love, X, X, X, and X" message in the card. I understand that it's the same thing when you MAIL a card to someone, but at least when you mail a card, that means you took the time to actually, with your own hand, write in the card, address each envelope and affix a stamp to it. They may be standard across the board, but at least you took time with each individual one instead of hitting "copy/paste" and "send"after filling in a few blanks to make sure that everyones names are on the card.

The point- e-cards suck and are a very distanced, disjointed way of wishing someone any type of happy holiday. To the person that sent that damn thing (though I highly doubt you'll ever see this blog), take me off your damn mailing list. To everyone else, sorry you had to "listen" to my feelings about these atrocious things.

Strange Circle Today

So for our weekly circle, today's lesson was the Science of Magic. A dozy right? Yup, I know. I gave everyone FOUR week (more technically) to prepare their part of the "lesson". I wasn't looking for anything massive, chalked full of huge words and complicated math problems... I just wanted everyones take on Science, Magic, and theories/experiments that have come to light and been preformed. At 11:30 last night, only one other person aside from myself had actually done a lesson. Awesome. So, I got up this morning and did a little bit of "war prep". It seems that every six month or so I have to have the same "I am not here to force-feed you and part of being on this path is learning new things and doing stuff for yourself instead of relying on everyone else" speech. So, as I'm getting ready to leave, I received a few text (all from my "problem children".. go figure), that they wouldn't be at circle today. Now, I know that sound shrewd, and I'm sorry, but after four years of the same "Oops I forgot" or "You know me, I'm an air child!" remarks, I have come to the realization that some people just don't give a shit. They're so comfortable in their lazy, stagnant spiritual life, that they expect everyone else to do all the "work" that is required of running a successful community circle. But Goddess help you if you say something incorrectly or what they believe to be a falsehood.. and they will immediately jump on you and make sure you and everyone else knows how and why you were wrong. Anyway, got to the annex and opened up our room with people filtering in shortly after. Amazingly, the majority of everyone had a lesson! I was anticipating a scary, get your poop in a group kind of circle, and it turned into a really nice lesson. =) That just goes to show that magic does happen!

Ok, rant over, and I feel better. Thanks for listening to me!