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I got a call from Yvette, my former coworker at Big Death, yesterday. She, too, is still out of work. She, too, has not had her unemployment benefits from the state either confirmed or denied. While I'm well into the acceptance stage of grief over the loss of my job (I'm not grieving the job so much as the paycheck it represented), she is stuck in the anger stage. She has every right to be angry – they accused her of lying and stealing by claiming she did not work through the lunches that she actually did work through and claiming them on her time sheet. She worked for 15 years at the job she left before she came to work at Big Death, with nary a black mark on her employment record. Being fired and being called a liar and a thief has her blood boiling.

Goliath had it coming. )
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Today on my drive into work, I was thinking about Antoinette the Voodoo Queen, who told me my fortune in New Orleans the last day of my honeymoon. She claims to be a direct descendent of Marie Laveau (it even says so on her business cards), which is quite possible. Marie had 10 children, and the city of New Orleans is probably crawling with her progeny, or at least was before hurricane Katrina pushed them to all corners of the country.

It was the middle of September in 2000. Getting my fortune told in Jackson Square happened to be one of the things on my to-do list, along with visiting the French Market and riding on a riverboat. Antoinette had her table set up right across from the Saint Louis Cathedral. She was a tall woman with milk-chocolate colored skin and long braids that she covered by a tignon, like her famous ancestress. She sat beneath a large golf umbrella with her tarot cards and small bottles of magic potions on the table in front her, ready to do business. Her demeanor was friendly and business like. I asked her price, then sat across from her and put the money on her table. She accepted in and got to work.

One handsome man and two spirits )
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Oh, those silly voodoorines - they used all their magic to blow the hurricane to Mississippi, and forgot to use any to shore up the levies! Now look what a mess there is.

I've always had a crush of New Orleans, since I first saw the Quarter when I was 15. God, I hate to see her in this state. It makes me want to cry.

When I saw the Carney earlier this Summer, getting ready to unload a lot of people from the Ferris Wheel of life, I had no idea how greedy he was going to be. Every time I pass by him of late he has his back to me; he is busy operating the ride and taking tickets and pointing the recently disembarked toward the exit.

Business is good, providing your industry is death.
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Driving into work this morning, I was thinking of Antoinette, the Voodoo Queen, who read my fortune in Jackson Square when I was on my Honeymoon back in 2000. She told me that "an unborn spirit" was following me around at the time. I now pay $125 a week in daycare for that little spirit.

I was wondering about the Gris Gris that Antoinette and all of the other Voodoo queens must have been spinning furiously to make hurricane Katrina veer to the east at the last minute. The Gris Gris coming out of Mississippi just isn't as strong as that coming out of New Orleans, where the bloodlines of Marie Laveau reside.

I'm glad the Big Easy didn't wash away. Good work, Antoinette.
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Weather is cloudy and damp. The office is hot and muggy from having the AC shut down all week. My mind is mildewed and musty, so I'm airing it out. Still, as humid as it is today, I'm not sure that it will help.

Withdrawal from the Pink Pills of Happiness is going fine, in an I-hate-everyone sort of way.

Am disturbed that more people do not realize what a fascist evil bastard the President is. Louisiana friend and I are discussing ways to Gris Gris him out of office. Playing with the black arts is dangerous, of course, so using them to do him direct harm is out of the question, due to the way negative spells come back and bite you in the ass. However, we are thinking a Karma spell might do nicely, causing all of his own negative energy to turn back on him and consume him. Happy thoughts.

Hmmm. Wonder if the Secret Service has a Gris Gris division that I should look out for?

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