Two things...

[lithera]

They released the 2006-2007 NHL schedule.

The Wings play the Canucks the day after my birthday. WOOoooo! Birthday hockey!

And! One week until Comic Con Preview Night! Wooooo!

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[moskevyu.livejournal.com]

Birthday hockey is the best! Sounds like a good match-up too.

[moskevyu.livejournal.com]

No Yzerman nor Shanahan, sadly.

[moesmith88.livejournal.com]

So, I'm guessing there'll be a birthday/hockey roadtrip in your future? ;-)

At least your team is in the same conference as the Canucks - I have to go to LA in November, if I want to see my team. Grrrrr.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I KNOW!

AUGH!

[elsewhere7.livejournal.com]

Remember the plan! Martin. Billy clubs.

[lysistratah.livejournal.com]

*sniff* The only con coming up in my neck of the woods is intensely lame. I ooze in good natured jealousy for your upcoming sojourn to ComicCon.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

You should come next year and we can go raiding something.

[lysistratah.livejournal.com]

Arr! If only me crew t'were better at th' lootin'. Shippin' all th' way t' yon Seattle costs more gold than I have in me chest.

I be a sad pirate indeed.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Comic Con is in San Diego, m'dearie. And that is why we have a year. Planning and extra looting and all of that.

[lysistratah.livejournal.com]

What? Ye mean I ain't suposed t' spend all me money on cabin boys, black powder, an' new hats?

Perhaps I be lookin' into this 'planning' thing ye speak of.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Well, if you wanted to send me a cabin boy, I wouldn't turn him down. *grins*

But, Comic Con is a blast. I recommend it to everyone.

[lysistratah.livejournal.com]

Ach. Ye would nae want any o' th' scurvy dogs I have available.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Sad. *frowny*

[lysistratah.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

The single guys in my gaming group frequently ask me when I'm going to get more women into the club. I have thus far avoided asking when they were going to develop the social skills necessary to meet women on their own. ;)

Being the happy Yenta I am, I long ago forced all the good ones onto Match.Com. Bend to my will or feel my wrath! Now couples outnumber singles.

Trust me when I say I have far too much respect for you to foist off our leftovers. You deserve a meaty main course, not scraps from the table.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

*smooches* Curse you woman!

You know, for that smutty, smutty story you linked off on Andy's journal. Because... Well... You could talk about all of thsoe things with me and that would totally be sexy.

[lysistratah.livejournal.com]

Heh. That wasn't smutty. That was just innuendo.

And an abiding passion for the ancient Sumerians. ;)

[lithera.livejournal.com]

BAH!

Either way... *mutters* I'm not as much that way for the Sumerians as I am the Greeks and the Etruscans and all...

[lysistratah.livejournal.com]

Etruscans I'll give you, but the Greeks? Babe, you'd be on the second floor of the house, veiled whenever allowed down the stairs, and only allowed out of the house for weddings, funerals, and very rare holidays. The Arabs copied the custom of zenana from their Greek neighbors.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Well, yes but I didn't want to /be/ one, my sweet. I just like reading what they had to say. I'm still fascinated by the battle of Salamis.

[lysistratah.livejournal.com]

You want interesting?

Enheduana, Inanna's sister, was the Sumerian goddess of the underworld. She was tricked into taking the job, which she utterly loathed. To shut her up, the gods promised she could bail out on policing the afterlife if she had a child. After all, that would demonstrate she was inherently unqualified for the work.

In a show of sheer determination in the face of bad odds, once a year she would pick out a villaige and screw every man in it to death. Earlier, she'd tried going for quality, but that didn't take, so now she was determined to make it work on sheer volume alone.

In a demonstration of ancient comic genius, there are epic poems about women dressing their sons as boys, hiding their husbands under the house, and shoving unwanted fathers-in-law out the door as a sacrifice to the goddess.

THAT's what I call a quality ancient culture. ;)

[lithera.livejournal.com]

.....

I probably shouldn't say what I'm thinking.

[lysistratah.livejournal.com]

Since they died in the process, they joined her ever-growing underworld harem. One assumes she got less goal-driven nookie the rest of the year.

I love me some Sumerians.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

*curls up for some more story time*