Part of the reason I am compelled to write this is because of my silly new theme.  It makes me feel like my LJ is special ( Read more... )

Like many of you, I have started keeping a different blog.  I like writing updates on the happenings of my life here in this blog, but something about it elicits writers block when I try to reflect on broader things than just what I ate for breakfast or what my semseter is looking like.

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I'm sick.  It is not fun.  Especially when I've been on the upswing, both emotionally and academically, it's tough to be incapacitated for more than twenty four hours by little more than a nasty stomach bug and a throbbing headache.  I came home from my usual Wednesday evening worship with an uncomfortable stomach ache.  Then I woke up in the wee ( Read more... )

Dammit, we're not too old to have Christmas Lists! (even if they make us feel rather domesticated)

1. 12- to 16-quart stockpot with lid
2. Set of three (small, medium, and large) Corningware oven-safe dishes with lids
3. Baker's rack/bread box for cooling large amounts of baked goods
4. Sewing machine
5. Gordon Peerman's Blessed Relief: What Christians ( Read more... )

Days like today (and weeks like this week) I really just want to throw in the towel and give up on life.  Seriously.  I felt so overwhelmed by the prospect of the work that I have to do (and the lack of inspiration with which to do it) that I just wanted to quit school altogether ( Read more... )

I really don't hide the content of my posts in cryptic titles, do I ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

The history of Scripture, internal and contextual, for all its stresses and cross- ( Read more... )

Last week amid the failing of WaMu and various other markers of widespread fear of financial downfall, I thought aloud to friends, "I wonder when my bank is going to go under?"

Well, witch vibe, it happened.  I guess now I'm a Citi Group customer?

I mean, acquisitions happen all the time, and hopefully now these huge companies are so big that they ( Read more... )

03:30 a.m. :: Alarm clock and phone ring ( Read more... )

I have gas in my car. It wasn't cheap, and it was still stressful to find, but with each additional gallon that rushed through that pump into my car, I thought, "okay, another 25-30 miles..." At 150 miles, I stopped. Really, who needs to have more than 150 miles in their tank if they're not taking a big trip ( Read more... )