tenlittlebullets | (no subject)

So I have these mental bullshit filters, right? They automatically take phrases such as "oppression of the proletariat," "escape eternal damnation through the healing love of Jesus," or "down with the patriarchal classist pigs" and set off a mental red flag to tell me this person is nuts and I don't really have to take in what they just said. Somewhere along the way a lot of language peculiar to religion got added to the filters--gee, I wonder how that could've happened?--and any attempt to talk to me about God without specifically avoiding churchy language bounces straight off my ears.

Well, I just discovered that these mental bullshit filters do not automatically carry over into other languages. I'm sure if I spent enough time immersed in another language I'd set them up eventually, but at the moment it's tabula rasa for the auto-BS-detectors in, say, French.

I don't know whether to be amused, terrified, or intrigued.

I bought a 3-pound bag of Halloween candy today. Of course it's excessive, especially considering the campus is too isolated to get kids from town and most of the people here are Too Mature To Trick-Or-Treat. But you gotta have something for the people who aren't, and if there's some left over... well... *cackle*

The rest of the Halloween decorations are going up tonight, as I finally got the nails. Will also finish teh fic of d00m, finish pinning my costume (and maybe start sewing, eep), and perhaps start plotbunny #2. (Except that plotbunny #1 has spawned, and its offspring, in addition to being of a rare breed, is very insistent. Meep.)