I guess it shouldn't surprise me, but it kind of does.  Al Gore earned the Nobel Peace Prize this weekend.  How fantastic is that?  The fact that he won because of his work showing the public what we're doing to this world in terms of pollution it's effects on global warning...is not the surprise.  The kind of shocking but not shocking part ( Read more... )

 I say this after the release of a video clip of a student at UF, that was asking Senator Kerry questions at a microphone, who eventually was taserd and taken away.  First of all, I'll admit that his questions were probably not meant to be friendly questions, however, we're supposed to live in a country where we can do that.  But, they did cut his ( Read more... )

Let me share some reflections with you that I took from the MN Annual Conference.  I feel like I have some clearer ideas as to why the United Methodist Church is declining in membership.  We began by voting for the 4 delegates that we wanted to send to the 2008 General Conference, (the conference that makes decisions on changes to our book of ( Read more... )

   This will be an interesting summer.  Stacey is gone for the summer, and that is tough, but I'm sure it will be do-able.  It is tough, but we'll both be pretty busy.  The trouble will come when I'm not busy.  I sat in my apartment, slowly cleaned it today.  It was a beautiful day, and wanted to get out and do something.  I called a couple of ( Read more... )

I just found out that one of my college friends has a couple days left to live, at best. It's amazing what thoughts go through one's mind when someone that they went to school with, who is the same age, is about to die ( Read more... )

So, I left the basement of the main building today to run an errand to the first floor.  I was gone for approximately 5 to 7 minutes.  When I returned to the basement, my bottle of excederin was sitting out on the center table, and my backpack which is behind my desk was open.  I don't get it.  It is a graduate schoo, a seminary besides.  How can ( Read more... )

Tonight, after class, I'm having a "Office" party...where we'll watch the taped "Office" episode from when we were in class.  I decided to make tacos for tonight, so I tried to prepare them ahead of time.  Unfortunately, I smell like taco meat in class.

Grr.

So, I haven't written anything in a long time on here.  I haven't felt the need, nor the desire to.  But recent events have made me think, and ponder.  Although I could go on and on about them, I wont ( Read more... )

Ok...two posts in one day, this one comes inspired just after I hit the post button for the other.  My boss came to tell me that there was a complaint from a minority student that I was hired for this job because it's "cushy" and I can "get my papers done."  I have no clue as to who it was, and maybe I don't want to know.  But the concern was that ( Read more... )

     I haven't journaled in a long time, and many good things have happened since then.  Great things actually, so much, that I don't know if I have time to write it all.  But today, I felt compelled to write about this day, 5 years ago.  Throughout this country's history, we've had events that make people say "I'll never forget where I was when ( Read more... )