Stand in the rain, you won't drown, and someday what's lost can be found.

[rebecca_in_blue]

Yesterday one of my coworkers told me that I come across as a Mormon. And even though 1) I have nothing against Mormons, and 2) I put no stock in said coworker's opinions, this is not something you want to hear when you're trying to convert to Judaism. Yesterday I saw the episode of "Sex and the City" where Charlotte converts and puts a mezuzah on her door at the end. I don't know yet if want a mezuzah when I convert or not. (Update: Here's my mezuzah!)

Anyway, I think maybe I came off as Mormon to him because I'm so clean-cut and boring, which is funny because my Mormon friends have more drama than anyone I know. I should've told him that he comes across as a bag of flour.

Back in 2003, shortly after I got my truck, I came across a red-white-and-blue toy donkey while browsing in a second-hand shop. I bought him and named him Alan Roosevelt Moore -- Alan after Al Franken (whom Sara and I got to see in person when he gave a speech at LSU at 2004), Roosevelt after FDR, and Moore after Michael Moore. We called him Moore and sat him the back window of the truck, where he stayed for the next three years. In 2006, Mom accidentally threw Moore away, and I feel a little stupid for saying this, since he was just a stuffed animal, but I was pretty upset over it. (I posted about it here.)

This week, Sara bought me a new, similar red-white-and-blue toy donkey. I don't like this new guy quite as much as Moore -- he is smaller and a bit more cheaply-made -- but I am happy to have an all-American jackass again. I plan to put him in the back window of Muse Watson (my car). After much thought, I named my new donkey Jethro Michael Errant: Jethro after NCIS's Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Michael after my Jewish grandfather, and Errant after "ears like errant wings," a line from GK Chesterton's poem The Donkey. (Yes, it has a Christian theme, but do you know of any other poems celebrating donkies?)

As with Moore, I'm going to call this donkey by his last name, Errant. According to the dictionary, it means 1) deviating from the regular or proper course, erring, straying; 2) journeying or traveling, as a medieval knight in quest of adventures, roving adventurously; 3) moving in an aimless or lightly changing manner: an errant breeze.



Here's a picture of Errant. I scoured through all my old photos, but I don't have one of Moore. :(

Only two new episodes to go in Season 8 of NCIS! From the spoilers and promo photos, it looks like Mike Franks is going to die on Tuesday (Swan Song). I'm kinda dreading it. Mike's not a main character, but I named my car after the actor who plays him, Muse Watson, and will be sad to see him go.

Comments

[alidiabin]

Sorry I followed you from your coment on Spoilers from NCIS.

The Mormons I know have the most drama too. The Morman man slut who 'dated' two of my best friends and managed to convert one of them briefly to his religion then 'dated' a 14 year old while he is like 18.

Cool donkey.

Yeah it's sad Mike went.

[rebecca-in-blue.livejournal.com]

Sorry I followed you from your coment on Spoilers from NCIS. It's cool. Drop by any time.

Yikes. The Mormons I know haven't done anything in that vein. They're very nice, wonderful (who are probably going to see this comment, since they follow my LJ) but yet, the drama continues.

Jethro Errant is glad you approve of him.

And yeah, too bad about Mike. I will miss him.

P.S. You have the same username on FF.net, right? I do too, and thanks for all the reviews you've left me! :)

[alidiabin]

I've got no problems with Mormons generally, or any group of people tbh. I only develop problems with individual people once I've met them or they've done something public which pisses me off. So, please assure your Mormon buddies I'm not being mean or prejudiced.

He's very cute. I still name stuffed toys I get too., I have Rupert and Tali the tiger and I only got Tali a couple of years ago when I should be past the naming stage. My laptop is also named: Aiko, and I have a plant named Denny, named after the Boston Legal character 'Denny Crane' simply because it was a Boston fern, and the plant I got with my NZ citizenship is called George.

Yes I do. I'm Alidiabin pretty much everywhere. You're welcome. Do you publish your fic on LJ? Because I try not to use FFN to much... it annoys me.

[rebecca-in-blue.livejournal.com]

Do you publish your fic on LJ?
Sometimes. I've published a few of them here (the tag is ff). I'm trying to get in the habit of putting more of my stories up on LJ, though.