Ritual sacrifice
Feb. 5th, 2008 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyA joke for Shrove Tuesday:
Q. How many weeks are there in a year?
A. Forty-six. The other six are only Lent.
Sorry.
I normally forget about Shrove Tuesday until it's too late. Not this year; I remembered this afternoon and thus made a pancake for dessert.
Now I'm wondering, since I've remembered in time, if I should give something up for Lent. Sister Adalbert, my primary school teacher, used to give up sugar in her tea for Lent every year. I suppose if you're an elderly nun, you don't have much to give up in the first place.
Perhaps I could give up butter on my toast? I have a very precise toast ritual, that begins with choosing which way the slice of bread goes in the toaster and ends with eating around the toast to save the tastiest-looking bit for last. I could never order toast in a café. I used to feel odd about this until I found out that a friend of mine has an even more precise ritual about making cups of tea, to the point where he has to make his own tea even in someone else's house.
Anyway, cutting out the whole middle part of my toast ritual would be a huge sacrifice for me. It may even be a good thing.
Q. How many weeks are there in a year?
A. Forty-six. The other six are only Lent.
Sorry.
I normally forget about Shrove Tuesday until it's too late. Not this year; I remembered this afternoon and thus made a pancake for dessert.
Now I'm wondering, since I've remembered in time, if I should give something up for Lent. Sister Adalbert, my primary school teacher, used to give up sugar in her tea for Lent every year. I suppose if you're an elderly nun, you don't have much to give up in the first place.
Perhaps I could give up butter on my toast? I have a very precise toast ritual, that begins with choosing which way the slice of bread goes in the toaster and ends with eating around the toast to save the tastiest-looking bit for last. I could never order toast in a café. I used to feel odd about this until I found out that a friend of mine has an even more precise ritual about making cups of tea, to the point where he has to make his own tea even in someone else's house.
Anyway, cutting out the whole middle part of my toast ritual would be a huge sacrifice for me. It may even be a good thing.