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• Working for an association still. I like the people and the pay and benefits, but the work isn't fascinating. Keeps me busy, has its interesting moments, but overall isn't fascinating or fulfilling.
• Coming close to 2.5 years with J, and six months of living with her. Things couldn't be better.
• Moved out of our 3 BR / 2 BA and into a 1 BR / 1 BA ( Read more... )

After my Jesus year, I've waltzed into the loving arms of Satan. I haven't set foot in a church since I left Slidell, but I've gone to synagogue nearly every week since I've lived in DC1. Usually the queer congregation, though a couple times to the more traditional, Conservative congregation where my girlfriend works2. I'm living in an apartment in ( Read more... )

Che stress! (That's Italian for "What stress!" (yes, the word for stress in Italian is 'stress'), not stressing out about Che Guevara.) I've spent a good part of this week freaking out about this apartment in DC that we're supposedly getting. After a lot of phone calls back and forth, some emails, and a trip to the bank, though, I think we have one ( Read more... )

I got an email from my grandmother today: "You came up in the sermon again today! [The pastor of my home church] was speaking of people who are willing to pass along the gospel by doing and not just hearing or talking about it.... Members of the church often ask about you and when you will be back ( Read more... )

[Ever mindful of the original audience of these posts, this one's a little more Jesusy than usual ( Read more... )

I haven't posted much here this year, but my volunteer program requires me to write a weekly update to our Google Group. I've moved most of those updates here. Most of them are public; the ones that aren't could probably get me fired or beat up. Sorry if they've been playing hell with your friends page feeds ( Read more... )

On Thursday, I finished the final chapter my epic battle with the dentist. They popped off my temporary crown, just by tugging on it -- I had no idea it was so loosely attached in my mouth. It was weird running my tongue through the gap where they did my root canal; I felt like I was nine years old. Who knows what the hell they did to my mouth -- ( Read more... )

I worked at one of the job sites for a couple of days this week. It was a nice change of pace and the days seemed to go by a little more quickly (just a little), though it's not something I'd want to do every day. When I got back to the office on Thursday, I took care of the resultant backlog of work in about 3 hours and spent the rest of the week ( Read more... )

Doing pretty alright this week. Mostly alright. I'm alive at least. I'm trying to move our finances to QuickBooks upon request, even though a spreadsheet manages it pretty well right now. I'm having a slow time trying to figure out how to get the program to track money through all the hands it passes ( Read more... )