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Mepkin Abbey is one of the loveliest places in the world. You can learn more about this treasure on the banks of the Cooper River in South Carolina, by visiting the abbey's website.
Need to lighten up?
Remember The Onion. Put it on your fast links and take a two-minute break watching a parody newscast or reading a pretend news article.
Then you can go back to prospecting for clients, re-doing a demo CD, and signaling with a flashlight for the flying saucer to bring your customers back.
Just a tiny rant! I promise. Facebook is having a "I don't recognize your password" day. Way too much time sucked up by myspace last night updating my musician's page. Windows does updates that foul things up.
At the moment, my iPhone is working - but I'm afraid to check that or plug in my amplifiers.
From Chapter 48 of the Rule of St. Benedict:
After the sixth hour,
having left the table,
let them rest on their beds in perfect silence;
or if anyone may perhaps want to read,
let her read to herself
in such a way as not to disturb anyone else.
(This particular online Benedictine update alternates the texts between monks and nuns, using female pronouns, etc. for the even-numbered chapters.)
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It's Professor Carol time!
