Couch 179: Even-numbered days in a year

I am not really all that attached to any particular month.
I do miss it staying light at night longer. But there are pluses to walking the dogs in the dark as well.

I can't wait for Nov 1st, aka the day that a ton of candy and amazing tacky decor is half off

I love the fall season but the temperatures do not reflect what fall should be in my parts. Today is in the high 60’s and rainy but we still will get up into the high 70’s during the week. That’s like summer weather to me since I run very warm generally. I love fall when it’s the low 60’s where just a light jacket is needed or not and the leaves change color. I hope we get some of that before it gets down right cold.

October is also my favorite month!

I will be mourning summer.

Yes a great perk of November

Halloween and Thanksgiving are the two most stupid holidays on earth

I agree about Thanksgiving but I'd put Valentine's day with it before halloween

No Halloween for me it's not even a holiday it's just a bunch of stupid children running around that I have to avoid.

Season wise I prefer spring and summer

LOL I didn't even realize halloween was done in the UK.

I am not a fan of it but I hate the fakeness of valentine's and how it makes single people feel left out etc.

On halloween, I just stay indoors, I never am out with all the kids but it's their holiday to have a little fun.

I Would put all children to military school

I will be mourning summer as well. Although it's always warm here lol I'll miss the summer monsoons

i love it for 2 reasons-my birthday and the start of hockey season!!!!!

Absolutely my favorite. Pumpkin everything, boots, sweaters, crisp air, halloween, autumn leaves.

A sense of renewal...

Fall is lovely here, but I miss summer sun.

The fall holidays are ok. I do like Tgiving. Thanksgiving has pie! Sometimes people leave extra pie at my house.

Out running errands this morning and enjoying the... um, scenery... damn...

I love October too, it's also my birthday.

So, I went to a beer yoga class but...didn't drink.

It was exhausting (the yoga that is) but fun -- I had a sense of 'ahh, my people'.

I shall join you.

Speaking of “your people,” I learned this morning from my world myth textbook that there’s a late version of the Ramayana under the Raj in which Sita offers a reward to an ogress that she helps Sita, in her next life she’ll get an upgrade to looking like Queen Victoria.

If only my students knew why that’s funny.

Life has become quite more interesting lately!!

Oh yeah forgot to tell y'all that one of my classmates started a study group and I joined it so that will be helpful.

I have no words.....

But, I'm curious -- what's the textbook? And, do they have details about the Victorian version?

Never heard of it, btw -- from what I know, apart from random twists and turns to fit the times that folks narrating it in the oral theatre tradition might take (those aren't actually considered 'versions'), all actual Ramayanas finished being written sometime in the BCs or at the most by 1200 AD.

Thury and Devinney Introduction to Mythology, citing Wendy Doniger. I don’t know that they mean “version” in the usual sense of the word.

Ahh....that makes so much more sense now.

I greatly respect Doniger's work and am totally on board with how she goes about it (especially given the ridiculous right-wing batshit craziness she's had to deal which if I'm not mistaken has resulted in her actually being barred from the country) -- however, her take on all these things is to examine it from a progressive or modern (by current standards) lens rather than a by-the-book strictly-historical sort of treatment.

I think of it a bit along the lines of Daniel Ladinsky's 'interpretations' of Hafeez's poetry -- folks reading the actual text wouldn't at all agree but they're pretty awesome and somewhere I think, he actually said that he likes to be true to the spirit, rather than the letter of the poem.

(Although yes, translation is a different discipline etc...).