Hello friends, hello neglected livejournal. I read my friends' page every day, but just haven't been witty or with it enough lately to post or comment. And now I'm posting about something awful ... one of my cousins died yesterday, and without getting into too much detail here, it was unexpected and horrible. If you want to know more/check in on ( Read more... )

Are they fighting? Are they getting it on? Maybe a little from column A, a little from column B? It is so hard to tell from the incredibly loud, echo-y caterwauling going on outside my window. They mostly sound incredibly, down-to-the-depths sad. Any of this all at once is possible in Spring, I suppose. Weird. And just as suddenly as it began ( Read more... )

Some great news: Sean and I went to see a Maternal Fetal Medicine doctor, who cleared us to launch Project: Baby. To clarify: I'm not pregnant yet, it may take a long time to get pregnant, and I may, in fact, never get pregnant. But Sean and I would like to someway, somehow, add to our family ... so of course we're documenting the process on a blog ( Read more... )

Weird coincidence what with the name-element of this week's episode, but the daily revised common lectionary just reminded me of the Biblical origin of "Jael ( Read more... )

This time of year seems to be my quiet time, although I think I should try harder to resist it. It feels less meditative quiet and more paralyzed-by-doubts quiet. I have to give myself pep talks before I contribute in classes, which just feels weird for this Lisa Simpson type. During the week of the all-school conference and Henri Nouwen ( Read more... )

Do I lack autonomy and initiative?

Maybe this class on family systems therapy was a bad idea ...

The exam is over, the semester is over. I have a few little things to wrap up and I am outta here for a nice long holiday. I was wondering last night which is less healthy: the sprint-to-the-finish-without-any-thought-to-health-or-sanity of the academic calender or the everyday stress and drudgery of work. There are probably healthy ways to do ( Read more... )

I'm trying not to make this a commerical for music software by apple, but I really have rediscovered the glorious hedonism of music in the process of ripping all my cds.

"Heroin" is a contender in the most perfect song ever category.

Back to outlining the Gospels.

A hymn we sang today in chapel, text by Tom Troeger (my preaching prof ( Read more... )

This seems like a new level of online quiz ... the content kind of sucked, but the graphics and format were neat.




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