So as you all may or may not know, on Monday I went back to St. Louis to appear before a committee to become certified as a candidate for ministry in the Methodist Church. The church likes to pretend that this is about helping to discern your call and that they are really looking for more young clergy. That didn't so much turn out to be the case ( Read more... )

http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/

Radiohead shooting a music video without cameras, pretty cool stuff.

So I went and spent the past week in Austin, it was an incredibly surreal experience. I have been making the trip backing at least once a year since I graduated two years ago, sometimes more. It's always been a good chance to get back in the city I love and check in on friends I don't see very much any more. In reality, most of them I don't really ( Read more... )

Saint Paul makes me want to punch someone in the face. I spend my whole birthday writing a well-researched paper on a feminist theologian. She works primarily with medieval women mystics to see who are normally considered either crazy or possessed to see how their experience of their bodies can be useful for understanding our own bodies. She then ( Read more... )

So last year I signed up for nanowrimo (National Novel Writer's Month) where basically the objective is to write a 50,000 word story over the course of the month. Last year I was a little short of 30 pages, no idea what my word count was. No clue how I'm going to get the time to do it, but I'm going to try gosh darn it... now I just need a plot. I' ( Read more... )

Some movies I want to see ( Read more... )

Marty finally got his Oscar, yay for him. It's about time.

To sum up the week so far ( Read more... )

Today has been a good day so far ( Read more... )

Random thoughts for the day ( Read more... )