[Sca-cooks] Re:Is Susan a Saint?

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Laura C. Minnick:
>At 07:24 AM 1/18/2004, you wrote:
>
>>>>Susan's a saint. ;-D
>
>>hm, not sure saints sit in their undies eating pigs knuckles and 
>>catsup watching cartoons....grin
>
>On the contrary, they do! They also sleep on the couch with a baby 
>passed out on their chest, a baby that did not give up and go to 
>sleep until 5am.

Hard to argue with any of this. Sainthood is messy business, 
sometimes. If it weren't, it wouldn't be necessary _or_ 
inspirational. (By the way, in no particular order, Father Mykel 
Judge, Mother Teresa and Albert Schweitzer are on my suggested list 
of people to be canonized; I may have a little trouble with 
Schweitzer, though. And no, he is not the father of Alfalfa.)

However. It was pig's feet, not knuckles, and I was appalled, at the 
time, by her choice of cartoons, but I also knew that anybody who 
could be that enchanting under those conditions was someone I'd be 
with for life. And I just wish I looked as good in the size and style 
of underwear I wore 20 years ago, as she does.

One other thing about saints: sometimes they stay up until 3:30 AM 
using the main family computer (the Mac with the graphic software 
that actually does what you want instead of doing what it thinks you 
ought to want), e-mailing copies of the PTA flier they've been 
working on to their spouse's e-mail address for archiving, which 
causes them to have Eudora running for seven hours straight, the same 
Eudora, with the same settings, that said spouse uses TO READ THE 
SCA-COOKS MAILING LIST. And when the saint's NAME appears in the 
subject line, well, suffice it to say that the fact that I am still 
alive under the circumstances is all the proof of sainthood anyone 
should need.

Adamantius (how the h*** did I get out of _this_ one??? Quickly 
deleting mail...)