*deep breath*
Mar. 13th, 2004 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yinshubackupOkay. Okay. After a good nap and a good night's sleep and a good uninterrupted drawing session (oh my god she actually picked up a pen???), I feel much more at peace with the world. Especially since I got the reserve materials I was hoping to gank from the library tonight. (yes! Everyone always checks out the textbook & solutions manual, but no one ever thinks to check out the "study guide", which is basically like the cliff's notes of the textbook, or the videotapes of past lectures with the prof showing problem solving and HP 12c calculator algorithm walkthroughs. It's like having my own private review session. Ehh, I didn't need this Saturday night, anyway.)
Anyway, I know lots of negative crap has been coming out of my journal lately, and while I don't really feel a need to apologize, I do want to say that:
A)I'm trying to ground & center, and be more at peace with the world in general, realizing that other people's idiocy does not necessarily reflect on me, no matter HOW much time I must actually spend with them, and
B)this journal is really more for cathartic purposes, and a lot of things I write about in here, I'd NEVER actually be mean enough to say in person. I just have to put it down somewhere so I can get it out of my system. I do have good, happy moments in my life too-- they just don't make it in here as much because they calm me down instead of riling me up enough that my wrath boils over into cathartic bitchy journaling.
And Now For Something Completely Different:
I have a trivia question for all you herbal gurus out there:
What herbs do you especially like for Protection spells/rituals/etc.? How do you usually use them?
I've read througha few things, including Scott Cunningham's magical herbal or whatever, but he basically lists every herb in the world under the "protection" heading, (seriously, there's about a page and a half of plant names just for that) and I really was hoping someone could narrow it down to some tried-and-true species that they particularly felt an affinity for, or had found some luck in using.
This is for a healer-character thingy I'm writing, and I wanted it to be as realistic as possible; and since I never post my "writing" on here, I can't promise you'll see it, but I can promise that any suggestions of herbs and/or accompanying protection spells/rituals are welcome and will be used in a respectful way.
Thanks in advance!
Anyway, I know lots of negative crap has been coming out of my journal lately, and while I don't really feel a need to apologize, I do want to say that:
A)I'm trying to ground & center, and be more at peace with the world in general, realizing that other people's idiocy does not necessarily reflect on me, no matter HOW much time I must actually spend with them, and
B)this journal is really more for cathartic purposes, and a lot of things I write about in here, I'd NEVER actually be mean enough to say in person. I just have to put it down somewhere so I can get it out of my system. I do have good, happy moments in my life too-- they just don't make it in here as much because they calm me down instead of riling me up enough that my wrath boils over into cathartic bitchy journaling.
And Now For Something Completely Different:
I have a trivia question for all you herbal gurus out there:
What herbs do you especially like for Protection spells/rituals/etc.? How do you usually use them?
I've read througha few things, including Scott Cunningham's magical herbal or whatever, but he basically lists every herb in the world under the "protection" heading, (seriously, there's about a page and a half of plant names just for that) and I really was hoping someone could narrow it down to some tried-and-true species that they particularly felt an affinity for, or had found some luck in using.
This is for a healer-character thingy I'm writing, and I wanted it to be as realistic as possible; and since I never post my "writing" on here, I can't promise you'll see it, but I can promise that any suggestions of herbs and/or accompanying protection spells/rituals are welcome and will be used in a respectful way.
Thanks in advance!
