Wow, Life. It's been a crazy ride.

Glory to God for everything.

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Our last day of property was filled with hilarity, as several people in the class participated in Prof. Lee's end-of-semester poetry contest.  The class session before he had told us what he was looking for-- material that really "captured the essence" of Property II.  He gave a previous year's example of a Haiku, which the student had introduced ( Read more... )

For some reason I am overcome this morning by a sense of purpose and meaning to my life, even my problems. Someone must be praying for me.

I'm on a really strange sleep schedule that sort of involves a few hours during the day and a few hours in the early morning. So far, so good. I took some time from studying to write a brief OrthodoxWikipedia ( Read more... )

This law school thing isn't for those who are too attached to the warmth and comfort of their beds. The last several days have been... interesting. I had my oral appellate argument yesterday at the Ohio ninth district court of appeals in front of my group instructor (a clerk for that court) and two of her lawyer friends. Let me just tell you ( Read more... )

Snowpup's most recently discovered talent is being able to find spiders-- on the ceiling, hanging from the ceiling, or crawling on the wall.  His little puppy eyes are geared to movement, I suppose.  This is one reason I don't like living in an old house-- I see at least one spider a week.  I used to be afraid of them, now they're mostly angering ( Read more... )

Recently I was accepted into the joint-degree program here at UAkron so that I'll be working on both my juris doctorate and a Masters in Applied Politics.  What exactly does that entail?  Well here are some of the courses I'll be taking:

3700:502 Politics and the Media
3700:540 Survey Research Methods
3700:570 Campaign Management I
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Holy Week this year was amazing.  In spite of the stresses of school and work, Arlie and I did our best to really center our lives around the services of the week, really cultivate silence at home and harmony between us.  Holy Thursday really kicked everything into high gear, with the Vesperal Liturgy commemorating the Mystical Supper, and then the ( Read more... )

I just couldn't resist embedding one more youtube clip. I have been keeping this one in my favorites for about 6 months, waiting for Pascha to post it. I don't know where it is although the kvas on the table with the bishops indicates to me that it's probably Russian... anyway, it's a cute "Christ is Risen" melody, sung in Greek, Latin(I think ( Read more... )

From Holy Pascha in Jerusalem last year:

I'm going to do a Holy Week/Paschal post soon. I promise.