And now the last post – THE END

When I woke up this morning I lay there and mapped out this grand plan for the rest of my life.

1. Crawl out of bed and find my warm slippers
2. Fire up the computer and book a ticket to somewhere warm. Cuba would be nice, or Provence or Italy?
3. Shower and brush my teeth
4. Pack a bag
5. Get on plane.
6. Write world famous novel that makes me rich so I never have to work again

I made a major mistake somewhere around step 2. Instead of booking the ticket and looked at my wallet instead. Bugger Damn! So here I sit at my local Starbucks watching people wander by the window instead. Maybe if I close my eyes and wish r-e-a-l hard I’ll find myself in Provence. ***SQUEEZE EYES SHUT**** Nope, no good, still here at Starbucks. Reality really does stink sometimes.

Anyone know how many Vestal Virgins there were? (I so wish I had thought of Vespa Virgins!)

As Monarchy was the dominant form of government in thos Feudal days, it is only right and proper that among other roles, Nuns functioned as both spiritual advisors and ladies -In Waiting to Queens and Princesses, among other noblewomen.

as recently as l926 In Italy and l952 in Portugal , Nuns, probably nurses, performed mortuary functions for Queen Margherita of Italy (In l926) and Former Queen Amelia of Portugal in l952.l

The Portugese ex-Queen died in Versailles, so missionary hoisital nuns had to be seconded from a Paris-area Convent. so they funcitoned inthe usual Nun roles as teachers and also nurses ( or equivalent) Undertakers for the females of the nobililty,and the usual churchly functions such as sacristan (supervisor of church housekeeping an specificaly that of religious articles)

This evolved into the interesting (Logistics Apostolate) of the St. Zita Convent in New York, responsible for Religious artifcles logistics of ocean-going ships. ( a big pipeline for ship re-supply ran under l4Th street, near their convent- a big coincidence. ) No, the Nuns did not run the Tanker-supply pumps, but did distribute religious articles to ships. COn Ed runs the pipeline.

Don’t you just love the right turn from Feudal days to nuns don’t run tanker supply pumps. No clue why the writer felt obliged to add the bit about Con-Ed but it adds a certain … oh .. I don’t know…  stream of consciousness feeling to the answer. I just hope some poor kid didn’t trot back to school with this clipped into their essay.

I now have this lovely image of nuns in penguin suits, leaning up against a tanker truck chewing gum and pumping gas. Wow, that’s an image that will burn your retinas out!

the ruler of iran told his people that america was satin and evil. when he got cancer he requested to be treated by american doctors. this made the ppl of iran mad and they revolted agenst there ruler taking 66 US citizens

Ohhhhh… so close! More proof spell check is the handiwork of Satan.