Re: Event

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Barry Garcia wrote:

> I wouldn't classify it as spiritual for me, and it's not just another day.
> It's a special day to celebrate with friends and family. It's one of those
> societal rites of passage (especially my 21st birthday when I become fully
> legal, and my friends determined to get me drunk :)). It's a special day
> no doubt, but it's not on par with say, a spiritual awakening.
>
At the university hall of residence where I do voluntary work (it has a
library and a national church archives), it has a bath-tub outside in the
quad and I don't want to speculate on the state of the water in it.  It is
the custom among the residents that the birthday celebrant should be
thrown into it.  I heard two stories in the Buttery last year.  One
student was studying for an important exam at the same time as her
birthday was approaching.  She asked the office whether the secretary
would hold any extra mail she got for her to pick up personally so she
wouldn't face the additional hassle of being dunked in the bath-tub while
she was studying until after her exams.  Then there was the guy who
reputedly wandered around the college in his boxer shorts.  It was his
birthday and if he was going to get dunked he wanted everyone to know
about it!

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

Giles: Honestly, Buffy.  You order these products, practice with them for
a morning and then cast them aside in favour of a piece of kindling.
When's the last time you used your hippe?
                        - Buffy the Vampire Slayer #3, Dark Horse Comics.