Well, to start with (because I do think that more of my posts should start this way- in fact, more of everyone's posts should start this way) playing baby polar bearsSecondly- whee, ecumenical services ( Read more... )

So, yesterday was my day to preach at my supervisor's two churches, and at first it seemed like a comedy of errors.  I drove to the wrong church first, very nearly ended up late, forgot to bring the prayer concerns with me from my seat to the center aisle, and thought I had broken the microphone when halfway through I realized I couldn't turn it ( Read more... )

Many eons ago, at an unearthly hour of the morning, in a class that I (it is universally agreed, and I include myself in that number) sucked at, I corrected a professor.

The class?  Hebrew.  The correction?  Was in Latin.

The only prof I had in college with dreads wrote "Veni, vidi, vici" on the board, why I don't remember, only not so much, because ( Read more... )

First, I imagine that most of you have heard of the petition to free Roman Polanski.  That's right, because the real crime in this case is not that it took over thirty years for someone to actually arrest the man for running away from a (tragically short) prison sentence earned for raping a 13 year old girl, no. The real crime is that such a " ( Read more... )

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I just got back from my aunt's wedding- five days straight of traveling, except the wedding day itself.  Went off without a problem or an incident (practically unheard of, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop) but I'm still sleepy.  I'm also conducting a funeral tomorrow morning for a woman who died the night of the rehearsal dinner ( Read more... )

You know, reading those answers,most of them are financial.  The rest are about being alone forever and most of those are phrased in such a way to make me think that they aren't really at an age where that's too much of a problem yet.  Of course that's a horrible stereotype on my part and I've done enough whining about similar things often enough ( Read more... )