Nuns

[emony]

So I'm watching The Sound of Music on DVD at the moment, and it set me to thinking. In season 5, after Riley leaves, Buffy briefly considers becoming a nun. It's mostly for humour value, but I was thinking, it's different for blokes, but I know I used to want to be a nun, and my mother went through a time when she wanted to be a nun. Is it a general girl thing, or are we just weird? Does everyone, or a lot of people anyway, have a time when they think nun-hood sounds like a pretty good plan. And if we do, why is it? Is it only after we've been dumped, when life's a bit difficult, or are there things about life as a nun that appeal to us all? Hmm. Late-night thought.

In other news, I joined Farnham library today, discovered they have *no* Dalziel and Pascoe books in the entire library, so instead went to WH Smiths and bought one. Hehe.

ETA: Oh, also, we watched Dragonheart 2 tonight, which was a). really crap and b). really gay. Ah, so amusing! *g*

Comments

[emony.livejournal.com]

Interesting. So maybe being closer to the reality put you off, whereas for people for whom it was just a vague idea it seemed more attractive. I know that one I actually knew some real nuns, I thought much less of the idea of being one myself.

[tirica.livejournal.com]

Now that you say this.. who knows maybe I would have turned out all religious and stuff had I been on other schools.. hmmm but nah better this way *snicker*