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[espresso_mafia]

So I don't really like my username. This is partly because, in reality, the mafia is pretty terrifying and not me at all, and partly because the name was inspired by a series of conversations from freshman year, which is also not me at all

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Magpies

[periwinklepanda]

I learnt a rhyme about magpies from the owner of the bed and breakfast we stayed at in Galway:
1 for sorrow
2 for joy
3 for a girl and
4 for a boy.
5 for silver
6 for gold
and 7 for a secret, never to be told.

Re: Magpies

[espresso_mafia]

I like it! Where we are, though, there isn't much chance of me seeing any magpies, more's the pity. I wish you two magpies, Tessa!

[espresso_mafia]

Me too! That was very beautifully put. Also, livejournal never deletes posts, so you still have your journal, really. That was an issue for me too, but in the end I realized just how different the person who had started the journal was from the person still writing in the journal. It almost started to feel almost like I was writing in someone else's journal entirely. Know the feeling?

[pillowminthotel]

madrigal singing groups are my faaaaaaaaaaavorite! i'm so excited to be involved in some in college. most big high schools have a madrigal group or two, but i guess xcp was too small :(

[espresso_mafia]

They are so beautiful! I want to hear your group next year! I'm so excited.

[lets_gogetlost]

I think this whole idea of weaning everyone off your late journal is a very good one. the shock was a bit much for us to bear.

there was a classics book fair / arts festival at a shop near my house, and there was a man (or woman?) running about in velvet red robes, makeup, fake mustache, etc, dressed to perfection as LORD BYRON himself. He was carrying several books of Byron poetry and signing autographs and, of course, giving many many hugs to the many many eager little kiddies and elderly ladies and myself.

I thought of you immediately. I dearly wish the batteries in my camera hadn't been defective.

Happy summer, dear Naomi!

[espresso_mafia]

Oh man! That guy is my new hero! You just brought such a smile to my day, you don't even know. I want to do that someday!

I'll still be pottering around my old journal a bit, it just felt like it was time for something new. I miss you, my darling Katrina. Life is desolate without you skipping with me.
Telephone, we need to hang out!

[redhairhermione]

In sixth grade we put on little productions of some of Shakespeare's plays, and for the party we had after it was all over our teachers got a man to come dressed as Shakespeare himself-- tights, poofy shorts, feathered hat, the whole shebang. We all got pictures with him and asked him really weird questions. It was so much fun.

Is it a sign of a dirty mind that in reading your above comment, Naomi, I anticipated a different ending to the first line, other than "someday!"?

[margin_madrigal]

Yes, it is a sign of a dirty mind, you pervert.

Ok, ok. I thought that too once I'd posted it. Hee. It's true, really. I probably would. Byron rocks my socks. He was pretty darn good-looking too.

(But he would also sleep with just about anybody, girls, guys, and -reportedly- half-siblings included, so I'm not sure the relationship would last. Wandering eyes and whatnot. Rather a pity, don't you think?)

[xevent_horizonx]

You were willing to marry both Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde posthumously, so... thats a bit of insight into you, my dear lovely.

And Marginalia = one of my favorite poems ever.