A bit of catch-up: S. went into the hospital to have a tumor removed. The doctors are hopeful, but wary. The diagnosis is that it is probably endometriosis related but there is the chance for cancer. I went with her yesterday to have the clamps (is that what they're using these days instead of stitches?) removed - still no word on the test results.

I found a cool hat yesterday at K-Mart for a whopping $1.80. It's almost identical to the one that Jody Foster wears in Contact...I never thought I would ever wear anything like it but hey - I like it.

...about that depression thing - I've kind of gone into denial about it. I find myself not wanting to know - because of the stigma still attached to it. Instead of doing anything to actually see if there was something to it, I just tried to ignore the whole thing...lol.

On to the obsession department:

My latest artistic obsession is this: creating paintings from star myths. At the moment, the constellations of Cassiopeia and Berenice's Hair have my attention.

Star Lore about Berenice's Hair -

Berenice was an Egyptian queen in the 3rd century B.C. who sacrificed her hair to thank Venus for a victory that her husband won in a war. The hair was placed in a temple but later stolen - the priests convinced the queen that Zeus himself had taken the hair and put it into the night sky as a constellation for all to see.

Star Lore about Cassiopeia -

Cassiopeia was an Ethiopian queen who had a daughter with Cepheus, her husband and King of Ethiopia. Cassiopeia often boasted about her daughter Andromeda's that it angered the sea nymphs. The nymphs prevailed the god Poseidon to send a whale to ravage the Ethiopian coast. Cepheus chained Andromeda to a rock so that the whale could eat her and be appeased. Before that could happen, however, Perseus freed her and killed the whale.