I'm sorry I haven't updated lately, it's just moving into finals time and life is hairy. Things are a lot better for me now that Lent is over, so thanks for your concern, everybody. As for my New Year's resolutions, I am meeting the following ones: working out, eating healthily at home, therapy, and improved grades ( Read more... )

Maybe the emptiness I'm feeling this Triduum isn't that inappropriate...

Slavoj Žižek on "Father, why have you forsaken me?":

When I, a human being, experience myself as cut off from God, at that very moment of the utmost abjection, I am absolutely close to God, since I find myself in the position of the abandoned Christ.

BU is going to the finals!!!! Bring it on Miami, the Terriers can take you! GO B-U!!!

In other news, it's Holy Week and my sanity remains precarious. It's only a few days more until Easter...

This week has been a lot of down and ended on the up side, so it seems things are turning out OK. I have a plane ticket to Ohio for a meeting with the dCOM. I'm praying for the stars to align and for things to go well in that meeting ( Read more... )

 Look, you don't have to tell me to count my blessings. Some seminarians (the ones at other schools who apparently have time for naps somehow) sit around all day and notice the fortunate happenstances that we call blessings. I tried that as a strategy to manage my anxiety, and I ended up with the first panic attack in my life ( Read more... )

my guilt and shame are like a boulder sitting on my chest ( Read more... )

So Jeremy put this article up on Facebook. It's about a pastor in Iowa who made shot glasses with his church and cell phone number on the side. Local bars will give them out to patrons who order shots. I thought, "Oh, another church marketing scheme."

Then I checked out the comments at the bottom of the page. They centered on the end of the article ( Read more... )

It's ruining my life. I am not kidding. Contemplating Xanax.

I still owe you all a post-Turkey recap, I know. Give me time. I got back to Boston and life/ anxiety slapped me in the face.

This post is short, because our day was spent preparing for takeoff and because I don't have much laptop battery.

Our last morning in Turkey was spent in lecture at the Crisler Library and the ruined byzantine Church of St. John, which is just next door. Most of it was academic wrap-up. Then we went to Pamucak, a restaurant nearby on the Aegean Sea ( Read more... )

Wow, what a whirlwind of a day! I started by getting up early and going to the market. I wasn't going to buy tea and spices, but I ended up with a few kilos, haha! It's all just so cheap, and it's stuff I can't get at all or can only get very expensively in the states. I also got some popcorn, a spice grinder, and some sprinkles for baking. I'm ( Read more... )