The Long Road

03/16/2003 Archived Entry: "Green with Envy"

Andy reminded me earlier that its St. Patrick's Day tomorrow. Will I be out celebrating? Probably not. Most likely, I'll be here coding.

I'd go to her party but she stood me up for casino night ;)
Who has time for such frivolities?!

"but Thai!, St. Patrick WANTS us to get drunk!!!"

What's Patrick saint of anyways?

RIM said 'no' to the web development job that I applied to. Thats pretty frustrating considering that I think I'm very well qualified for the position. It'd be nice to know why they passed me over. Was I not qualified? Were they looking for someone in a lower grade(pay scale)? Did my resume suck? We'll never know since co-op (and real world job searches) is such an oblique process.

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St. Patrick, Bishop, Apostle of Ireland. The patron Saint of Ireland. Basically, here's the scoop... He was born of Calpurnius, a Roman-British deacon. At the age of 16, he was help captive in Ireland and forced to serve a heahten master, but managed to keep his Faith. Six years later he escaped but then had a dream telling him to go back to Ireland. So he studied in the monastery until he finally was consecrated Bishop (about 432) and traveled all of Ireland sowing the Faith everywhere despite much hostility. He was then commisioned by Pope Leo the Great to organize the Church of Ireland. After winning a pagan nation, St. Patrick established many monasteries for both men and women whom then went on to carry the Faith to England, France, and Switzerland. St. Patrick died on March 17, 461 after leading the life of an apostle. (source: "Lives of the Saints." New Revised Edition)
Why this means that Catholics dress up as leprauchauns and drink vast amounts of green beer in the name of a Saint who dedicated his life to God, I will never understand. But hey, why mess with tradition....pass me the Guinness. Cheers.

Posted by Smujee @ 03/16/2003 09:27 PM EST