Arrived safely.
Must do homework now.
Still hate my parents' computer. (They should get wireless so I can use my own.)
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Hiatus
I'm off to Ohio, as soon as I can get my stuff together and into the car. I'm pretty sure our diocesan camp doesn't have wireless, so I'll probably be offline while I'm out at my candidacy interviews.
If anyone's seen my watch recently, please inform. I can't seem to find it anywhere, although I guess it's better than losing my license or something. I don't actually need my watch to drive.
If anyone's seen my watch recently, please inform. I can't seem to find it anywhere, although I guess it's better than losing my license or something. I don't actually need my watch to drive.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Early morning observation
It hasn't been that long since I was last up at sunrise, but I'd forgotten how fast it happens. It was pitch black outside, and then voila! twenty minutes later, gray daylight.
(No, I didn't mean to be up this early. It just happened. Yes, I am at least getting some good work out of it.)
(No, I didn't mean to be up this early. It just happened. Yes, I am at least getting some good work out of it.)
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Skunked
There's a guy a couple of tables over who clearly thinks he's quite smart. I suspect he also thinks he has a reasonable grasp on how to get along in polite society.
He is wrong.
In addition to conducting a conversation with two preschoolers in outdoor voices (as they were running circles around the middle of Panera, which admittedly is more their parents' fault), he has just made the following statement:
"You know that street where people hung out in the sixties? They're still there, and it's twenty years later!"
Excuse me, sir? The sixties were "twenty years ago" when I was in preschool. You're looking at 35-40 years ago now. I'm sorry, but your brain is skunked.
He is wrong.
In addition to conducting a conversation with two preschoolers in outdoor voices (as they were running circles around the middle of Panera, which admittedly is more their parents' fault), he has just made the following statement:
"You know that street where people hung out in the sixties? They're still there, and it's twenty years later!"
Excuse me, sir? The sixties were "twenty years ago" when I was in preschool. You're looking at 35-40 years ago now. I'm sorry, but your brain is skunked.
Friday, February 24, 2006
Just another headline...
Read this headline:
If you think it looks like just another headline, read it again.
The story itself is of course not at all funny, but the headline amuses me.
US singer Sheryl Crow has had cancer for breast surgery, and doctors say her prognosis is "excellent".
If you think it looks like just another headline, read it again.
The story itself is of course not at all funny, but the headline amuses me.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
I knew I liked the English
Apparently, in England, a person can face charges for failing to respect others. That's awesome.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Meet Herb
For no particular reason, I'm feeling petulant about repeating the phrase "the author of Hebrews" or even "the author." I've decided to give said author a name and gender. Meet Herb.
This is what happens when my little brother and I chat aimlessly about things as diverse as musicals we did in high school, Anglican/Episcopal polity and US law, and finance tests. I think of silly things, like naming the author of Hebrews after a character my brother played in Godspell that happens to share letters with the name of the book.
This is what happens when my little brother and I chat aimlessly about things as diverse as musicals we did in high school, Anglican/Episcopal polity and US law, and finance tests. I think of silly things, like naming the author of Hebrews after a character my brother played in Godspell that happens to share letters with the name of the book.
Monday, February 20, 2006
Reading Week Task List
~Research Hebrews paper - in progress
~Draft Hebrews paper - in progress
~Research pacifism paper - in progress
~Draft pacifism paper - in progress
~Write sermon
~Write to Aunt Sally
~Call about bridesmaid dresses
~Call Kristian
~Work-study stuff
~Find lector for tomorrow
~Look at music for Thursday
~Look at materials for faculty conference
~Read for Greek class Monday
~Learn vocab for Greek Monday - in progress
~Translate for Greek class Monday
~Translate for Greek group Monday
~Draft Hebrews paper - in progress
~Research pacifism paper - in progress
~Draft pacifism paper - in progress
~Call about bridesmaid dresses
~Call Kristian
~Learn vocab for Greek Monday - in progress
~Translate for Greek group Monday
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Why do you torment me so, creature?
Something is chirping. Or squeaking. It's doing so at a more or less regular pace. It does not appear to be coming from the windows - in fact, it's loudest when I stand right in the middle of my living quarters, away from all doors and windows. I'd say it was a bird, except what would a bird be doing in my walls? I'd say it was a mouse, except it's awfully regular for a mouse. (Plus, I'd really like for it not to be a mouse.) Whatever it is, it's driving me batty. (ok, no pun intended there - I really hope it's not a bat.) Animals and their sounds do not belong in any part of my indoor living quarters.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Weird Mail Day
Today, the following came in the mail:
~A package from Amazon, containing two books I had ordered and a sample of men's deodorant I had not. (If anyone wants it, let me know.)
~A king cake, which turned out to be from my aunt. She's never sent me a king cake before, so I certainly wasn't expecting it. She also doesn't send notes with things, though, so I don't know why she sent it, either. I guess I'll take it to class tomorrow, since there's no way I'll eat a king cake myself.
~A card from Rhonda, with an article about a random heart-stopping condition.
~A valentine from Julia. (ok, that one's not weird at all.)
~A package from Amazon, containing two books I had ordered and a sample of men's deodorant I had not. (If anyone wants it, let me know.)
~A king cake, which turned out to be from my aunt. She's never sent me a king cake before, so I certainly wasn't expecting it. She also doesn't send notes with things, though, so I don't know why she sent it, either. I guess I'll take it to class tomorrow, since there's no way I'll eat a king cake myself.
~A card from Rhonda, with an article about a random heart-stopping condition.
~A valentine from Julia. (ok, that one's not weird at all.)
Cue the music
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
This is grad school, right?
I just finished my homework for a particular class. It taught me the following things:
~Sometimes verbs change forms when they change tense. For instance, they may add an "s" or an "ed": play, plays, played.
~Sentences should have a subject and a verb. Plural subjects should take plural verbs; singular subjects should take singular verbs.
~Separate sentences should have a period between them.
~It's a good idea to look for misspellings before you turn in a paper.
My transcript and tuition seem to indicate that I'm enrolled in a master's program. My homework seems to indicate otherwise. Now, I'm all for asking grad students to pay attention to the finer points of editing - the use of semicolons and commas, transitions between paragraphs, etc. In fact, I'm all for asking grad students to pay attention to basic editing skills. But are we really so far gone that you have to tell me that verbs have plural and singular forms?*
*Yeah, ok, I've read enough papers from students (none of you, of course) at reputable institutions of higher learning to know that, apparently, we do have to tell people these things. It still makes me grouchy to have to "learn" things in grad school that my daddy taught me when I was seven.
~Sometimes verbs change forms when they change tense. For instance, they may add an "s" or an "ed": play, plays, played.
~Sentences should have a subject and a verb. Plural subjects should take plural verbs; singular subjects should take singular verbs.
~Separate sentences should have a period between them.
~It's a good idea to look for misspellings before you turn in a paper.
My transcript and tuition seem to indicate that I'm enrolled in a master's program. My homework seems to indicate otherwise. Now, I'm all for asking grad students to pay attention to the finer points of editing - the use of semicolons and commas, transitions between paragraphs, etc. In fact, I'm all for asking grad students to pay attention to basic editing skills. But are we really so far gone that you have to tell me that verbs have plural and singular forms?*
*Yeah, ok, I've read enough papers from students (none of you, of course) at reputable institutions of higher learning to know that, apparently, we do have to tell people these things. It still makes me grouchy to have to "learn" things in grad school that my daddy taught me when I was seven.
Monday, February 13, 2006
Friday, February 10, 2006
Me, a socialist?
Tripp posted this a few days ago and Frank asked about it today. I am a socialist, or, if you prefer, apparently halfway down Hillary Rodham Clinton's left torso. Gee, who'da thunk it?
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Thursday, February 09, 2006
Good to know
In high school, I had mad skills at getting up and out the door quickly. I wasn't sure I still possessed such skills, but this morning, I learned that I do. I woke up to five bells ringing, leaped out of bed and got dressed, and walked into chapel as the cantors were singing the first antiphon of the Venite. (For those who aren't from Seabury, that's about six minutes.) As far as I know, my general appearance did not betray me. I'm kind of impressed with myself. Still, I think tomorrow I'll set the alarm.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Here's the thing
These are the 25 most popular classic books at What Should I Read Next?
| I liked it! | I didn't like it! | I want to read it! |
| Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen |
| Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte |
| Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte |
| Great Expectations - Charles Dickens |
| Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Little Women - Louisa May Alcott |
| Emma - Jane Austen |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain |
| A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens |
| Persuasion - Jane Austen |
| Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen |
| Dracula - Bram Stoker |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy |
| Frankenstein - Mary Shelley |
| Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare |
| Hamlet - William Shakespeare |
| The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen |
| The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Jungle - Upton Sinclair |
| Candide - Voltaire, Norman Cameron |
| Complete Tales and Poems - Edgar Allan Poe |
| King Lear - William Shakespeare |
| Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson |
Eight different categories to try!
Here's the thing: what makes them think that these are the only three options? In fact, I have no desire ever to read either Tess of the D'Urbervilles or Dracula - yet, since I've never read them, there was no honest option for me to choose. Hrmph.
Just wondering
Does this seem like a reasonable thing to meat-eaters? Because it sounds absolutely disgusting to me.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Eighth sign of the apocalypse
My CPE final evaluation came in the mail today, signed and everything.
Still Elvish.
To me, one sign of a good quiz is that I get the same results a few months apart, after time to forget the quiz. Mark's Middle Earth quiz fits that - I'm just as Elvish now as I was in November.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Logical progression
I want to win my next disputatio.*
In order to win my next disputatio, I must convince the judges that Christians are not morally obligated to pay or advocate for a just wage.
In order to argue that the just wage is unnecessary, I must learn to think like someone who believes the just wage is unnecessary.
Someone who believes the just wage is unnecessary is likely to be a political conservative.
The best way for me to learn to think like a political conservative is to watch smart political debate.
The best way for me to watch smart political debate is to watch West Wing.
So, I'm working on my disputatio.
*Ok, the competitive part of me wants to win the disputatio. The rest of me actually kind of wants to lose the disputatio, because I really pretty strongly disagree with my assigned position. I do, however, care about looking good in class and thinking soundly, so for now, it's time to think like a conservative libertarian.
In order to win my next disputatio, I must convince the judges that Christians are not morally obligated to pay or advocate for a just wage.
In order to argue that the just wage is unnecessary, I must learn to think like someone who believes the just wage is unnecessary.
Someone who believes the just wage is unnecessary is likely to be a political conservative.
The best way for me to learn to think like a political conservative is to watch smart political debate.
The best way for me to watch smart political debate is to watch West Wing.
So, I'm working on my disputatio.
*Ok, the competitive part of me wants to win the disputatio. The rest of me actually kind of wants to lose the disputatio, because I really pretty strongly disagree with my assigned position. I do, however, care about looking good in class and thinking soundly, so for now, it's time to think like a conservative libertarian.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Game over.
Pittsburgh won. I am a good Clevelander, and so this makes me sad. (My little brother, on the other hand, is a traitor. A lovable traitor, but a traitor all the same.)
Also, there will be no more football until fall. This also makes me sad. (Yeah, I know there's a ProBowl. I don't think that counts.)
On the bright side, though, pitchers and catchers report in 10 days. Hurray for baseball season!
Also, there will be no more football until fall. This also makes me sad. (Yeah, I know there's a ProBowl. I don't think that counts.)
On the bright side, though, pitchers and catchers report in 10 days. Hurray for baseball season!
Saturday, February 04, 2006
I give up.
The bookstore at McCormick doesn't have it yet. The bookstore here doesn't carry it. Amazon takes 2-4 weeks just to ship it. United Library says it was returned Thursday, but it's not at either Garrett or Seabury, in any of the several reshelving locations. I stop short of trundling from NU library to NU library tracking it down.
I think this qualifies as a good faith effort. I will complete the other two assigned readings and do my translation, and I will go to class Monday early enough to buy it from the bookstore then (assuming it's in by then) and skim the reading before class starts. That's just going to have to be enough.
(Unless, of course, one of you happens by sheerest chance to own a copy of the Abingdon commentary on Galatians by Sam K. Williams, and wants to make it appear in front of me before Monday.)
I think this qualifies as a good faith effort. I will complete the other two assigned readings and do my translation, and I will go to class Monday early enough to buy it from the bookstore then (assuming it's in by then) and skim the reading before class starts. That's just going to have to be enough.
(Unless, of course, one of you happens by sheerest chance to own a copy of the Abingdon commentary on Galatians by Sam K. Williams, and wants to make it appear in front of me before Monday.)
I'm so cool.
It's noon on a Saturday, and I've already accomplished the following:
~Getting up
~Eating
~Getting my hair cut
~Half my big ol' pile of laundry
~Changing the sheets
~Registering for a training
~Calling my LMT for an appointment in March
And now, I can add blogging to the list. Give me a couple of hours, and I'll have finished my laundry and been to the library, and be hard at work on something probably related to the New Testament.
~Getting up
~Eating
~Getting my hair cut
~Half my big ol' pile of laundry
~Changing the sheets
~Registering for a training
~Calling my LMT for an appointment in March
And now, I can add blogging to the list. Give me a couple of hours, and I'll have finished my laundry and been to the library, and be hard at work on something probably related to the New Testament.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Oh, yeah...
Amelie is my hero.
I'd forgotten how much I love that movie. I'm sort of amazed I don't own it. I saw it five or six times in German theaters in both Hamburg and Berlin - several of us were nearly obsessed with it when it came out - but I hadn't seen it on DVD until tonight. After a day of frustration and disappointment, a day when I thought only the end of the day could pull me out of my funk, Amelie has done it again. She just makes me feel good about life.
I'd forgotten how much I love that movie. I'm sort of amazed I don't own it. I saw it five or six times in German theaters in both Hamburg and Berlin - several of us were nearly obsessed with it when it came out - but I hadn't seen it on DVD until tonight. After a day of frustration and disappointment, a day when I thought only the end of the day could pull me out of my funk, Amelie has done it again. She just makes me feel good about life.
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Link
For those classmates whose curiosity was piqued by the discussion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in New Testament today.
(For those other readers who are alarmed by the presence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in a New Testament class, don't worry, it was all very chaste and orthodox.)
(For those other readers who are alarmed by the presence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in a New Testament class, don't worry, it was all very chaste and orthodox.)
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
How to make Yodabeth angry
Who does that?
I guess the good news is that finishing my probe suddenly sounds more appealing than continuing to procrastinate now.
I guess the good news is that finishing my probe suddenly sounds more appealing than continuing to procrastinate now.
Monday, January 30, 2006
paulpaulpaulpaulpaul
Today was Paul day. The Galatians course started this morning (went about as expected, which is to say fine), followed closely by a lecture on Romans and Philippians in NT II, after which came more Galatians in reading group. Don't get me wrong, it was a great day. I just think I'm going to wait until tomorrow to put the finishing touches on my research probe on 1 Corinthians. On the other hand, tomorrow has very little homework, so in lieu of finishing my probe tonight I'm reading about Colossians and Philemon. I feel a little like I used to at the end of my first day in a new dance schedule (except without the enormous sense of physical accomplishment and exhaustion) - like today's dose of Paul was a little much, but in a good way, and like something I could get used to.
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Wish me luck
I'm beginning to remember why I never took any Five-College courses when I was at Smith. I justified it to myself on the basis that I took a year's worth of courses off-campus when I was in Germany, but it was really just that I didn't want to face being the new kid.
Tomorrow, I head off to my semester course. The combination of getting up early, driving to (and parking at) a new place, in the city, to enter a new social situation (where the rest of the class is likely to know each other), for a course where I don't know what will be expected of me... well, basically it terrifies me. I've packed my bag (except the computer), made sure I have everything I need for all three of tomorrow's classes (right in a row), all that. I'm still scared.
I know this is what I need to be doing. I know it will be fine once I've been through the routine once. I know experiences like this are good for my pride. But right now, I'm just ready for Day One to be over.
Eek.
Tomorrow, I head off to my semester course. The combination of getting up early, driving to (and parking at) a new place, in the city, to enter a new social situation (where the rest of the class is likely to know each other), for a course where I don't know what will be expected of me... well, basically it terrifies me. I've packed my bag (except the computer), made sure I have everything I need for all three of tomorrow's classes (right in a row), all that. I'm still scared.
I know this is what I need to be doing. I know it will be fine once I've been through the routine once. I know experiences like this are good for my pride. But right now, I'm just ready for Day One to be over.
Eek.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Friday Five: Winter Reading
1.If you received books as holiday presents, how many and what were they?
Let me see... Julia sent me an autographed copy of Texts of Terror (Trible); my grandmother gave me the New International Greek Testament Commentary volume on Mark; my parents gave me Engaging Scripture (Fowl) and America's Women (Collins); my aunt and uncle gave me The Ordering of Love (L'Engle). I guess that's a total of five books.
2. Did you buy any for yourself, and if so what are the titles?
Well, I bought a copy of Apostle of the Crucified Lord (Gorman) in the same batch as a few Christmas presents, but that was for class.
3.Have you read any of them yet? What's next on your list?
I've started the Gorman, since class has been in session for three weeks. I keep meaning to open Ordering of Love, since it's poetry and easier to pick up and put down, but I haven't yet.
4. Do you have a favorite place to read a new book? And does the weather have an impact on that choice?
Mostly I read on the loveseat, right under the good lamp. In radiator-winter, under a throw; in radiator-summer, without the throw. I imagine when there's more daylight I'll probably go back to reading more in the recliner, because who knows when I'll have a recliner after I leave here.
5. Does reading in bed make you sleepy?
Not sleeping makes me sleepy, so if I'm reading in bed after my bedtime, I do get sleepy. But the reading itself doesn't, really.
Let me see... Julia sent me an autographed copy of Texts of Terror (Trible); my grandmother gave me the New International Greek Testament Commentary volume on Mark; my parents gave me Engaging Scripture (Fowl) and America's Women (Collins); my aunt and uncle gave me The Ordering of Love (L'Engle). I guess that's a total of five books.
2. Did you buy any for yourself, and if so what are the titles?
Well, I bought a copy of Apostle of the Crucified Lord (Gorman) in the same batch as a few Christmas presents, but that was for class.
3.Have you read any of them yet? What's next on your list?
I've started the Gorman, since class has been in session for three weeks. I keep meaning to open Ordering of Love, since it's poetry and easier to pick up and put down, but I haven't yet.
4. Do you have a favorite place to read a new book? And does the weather have an impact on that choice?
Mostly I read on the loveseat, right under the good lamp. In radiator-winter, under a throw; in radiator-summer, without the throw. I imagine when there's more daylight I'll probably go back to reading more in the recliner, because who knows when I'll have a recliner after I leave here.
5. Does reading in bed make you sleepy?
Not sleeping makes me sleepy, so if I'm reading in bed after my bedtime, I do get sleepy. But the reading itself doesn't, really.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Observations
Chocolate and hazelnuts tastes like Germany.
That quality does not translate into helping me find a sermon.
I envy people who have the combined courage and body mass to take out the trash at 10 pm.
My rooms smell like vinegar, and I don't know why.
I have no more homework due until Monday.
That quality does not translate into helping me find a sermon.
I envy people who have the combined courage and body mass to take out the trash at 10 pm.
My rooms smell like vinegar, and I don't know why.
I have no more homework due until Monday.
Envelope, please...
The judges have handed down their decision, and have ruled in my team's favor: Suicide violates a fundamental Christian tenet, and those who assist someone to commit suicide are morally culpable of murder.
Props to Kirsteen and Raisin: that was about the best-written judgment I've heard yet.
Props to Kirsteen and Raisin: that was about the best-written judgment I've heard yet.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Disputatio: check.
The disputatio is finished, and I think it was reasonably successful. The judges will render their decision on Thursday, and I'll be sure to report back in, unless Judge Raisin beats me to it on her blog.
Ready or not...
Opening statement: check.
Copies for judges and professor:
Rebuttal notes printed: check.
Books sorted into "taking with us" and "leaving here": check.
Gustafson article in folder: check.
Footnotes finished: check.
Works cited list:
Works consulted list: check.
Cassock:
And we're listening to the Indigo Girls eponymous album. I think we're almost ready....
Copies for judges and professor:
Rebuttal notes printed: check.
Books sorted into "taking with us" and "leaving here": check.
Gustafson article in folder: check.
Footnotes finished: check.
Works cited list:
Works consulted list: check.
Cassock:
And we're listening to the Indigo Girls eponymous album. I think we're almost ready....
rain soaked and voice choked
like silent screaming in a dream
i search for our absolute distinction
not content to bow and bend
to the whims of culture that swoop like vultures
eating us away, eating us away
eating us away to our extinction
oh how i wish i were a trinity
so if i lost a part of me
i'd still have two of the same to live
but nobody gets a lifetime rehearsal
as specks of dust we're universal
to let this love survive
would be the greatest gift that we could give
Monday, January 23, 2006
Pre-disputatio meme
As seen at Preacher Mom's place:
1) When you looked in the mirror first thing this morning, what was the first thing you thought?
Where did I put my glasses?
2) How much cash do you have on you?
On me? I'm in my pajamas - none.
3) What's a word that rhymes with TEST?
Nest
4) Planet?
What? A word that rhymes with planet? (Janet) Name a planet? (Earth) What's my favorite planet? (Earth)
5) Who is the fourth person on your missed calls?
The fourth one I can identify is Milner.
6) What is your favourite ring on your phone?
N/A - one of my least favorite features is that no matter what I set the ringtone to be, the phone changes it to the automatic one at will.
7) What shirt are you wearing?
Purple flannel leopard print pj top
8) What do you label youself as?
Where? When? Why?
9) Name the brand of shoes you've recently worn.
Bass
10) Bright room or dark room?
Well, I'm about to go to sleep, so I'll want a dark room for that.
11) What were you doing at midnight last night?
Sleeping
12) What did the last text message on your phone say?
I don't have any saved - I think the last one might have been "Happy Turkey Day" from V.
13) Where is your nearest 7-11?
I don't think I've seen a 7-11 up here.
14) What's a saying you say a lot?
"Can I just say..."
15) Who told you they loved you last?
My mommy, who might come visit in March!
16) Last furry thing you touched?
Furry? Umm... oh, Maggie, yesterday when I was borrowing Raisin's books.
17) How many drugs have you done in the past three days?
Um, well, I had a cup of tea earlier...
18) How many rolls of film do you need to get developed?
One, if it's still developable. Now I have a digital, hurray!
19) Favourite age you've been so far?
22 was pretty darn good. So was three.
20) Your worst enemy?
Satan, the forces of evil, whatever you want to call it. Cliched? Perhaps. True? Yes.
21) What is your current desktop picture?
A picture of the Indigo Girls on a carousel horse
22) What was the last thing you said to someone?
Does iChat count? If so, then "nope." If not... I haven't spoken out loud in hours, I don't remember. Probably "bye"
23) If you had to choose between a millions bucks and being able to fly, which would you choose?
I'm not sure how useful or fun flying would really be if no one else could fly with me. I think I'd take the money.
24) Do you like someone?
I like many people. :)
25) The last song you listened to?
Galileo
1) When you looked in the mirror first thing this morning, what was the first thing you thought?
Where did I put my glasses?
2) How much cash do you have on you?
On me? I'm in my pajamas - none.
3) What's a word that rhymes with TEST?
Nest
4) Planet?
What? A word that rhymes with planet? (Janet) Name a planet? (Earth) What's my favorite planet? (Earth)
5) Who is the fourth person on your missed calls?
The fourth one I can identify is Milner.
6) What is your favourite ring on your phone?
N/A - one of my least favorite features is that no matter what I set the ringtone to be, the phone changes it to the automatic one at will.
7) What shirt are you wearing?
Purple flannel leopard print pj top
8) What do you label youself as?
Where? When? Why?
9) Name the brand of shoes you've recently worn.
Bass
10) Bright room or dark room?
Well, I'm about to go to sleep, so I'll want a dark room for that.
11) What were you doing at midnight last night?
Sleeping
12) What did the last text message on your phone say?
I don't have any saved - I think the last one might have been "Happy Turkey Day" from V.
13) Where is your nearest 7-11?
I don't think I've seen a 7-11 up here.
14) What's a saying you say a lot?
"Can I just say..."
15) Who told you they loved you last?
My mommy, who might come visit in March!
16) Last furry thing you touched?
Furry? Umm... oh, Maggie, yesterday when I was borrowing Raisin's books.
17) How many drugs have you done in the past three days?
Um, well, I had a cup of tea earlier...
18) How many rolls of film do you need to get developed?
One, if it's still developable. Now I have a digital, hurray!
19) Favourite age you've been so far?
22 was pretty darn good. So was three.
20) Your worst enemy?
Satan, the forces of evil, whatever you want to call it. Cliched? Perhaps. True? Yes.
21) What is your current desktop picture?
A picture of the Indigo Girls on a carousel horse
22) What was the last thing you said to someone?
Does iChat count? If so, then "nope." If not... I haven't spoken out loud in hours, I don't remember. Probably "bye"
23) If you had to choose between a millions bucks and being able to fly, which would you choose?
I'm not sure how useful or fun flying would really be if no one else could fly with me. I think I'd take the money.
24) Do you like someone?
I like many people. :)
25) The last song you listened to?
Galileo
Coronation bling-bling?
In order not to be working on my disputatio just yet, I was playing with iTunes' beta of "Just for You" - a feature I've enjoyed mightily on Netflix and Amazon, and now on iTunes too. In my list of recommended songs, I noticed "K.17 'Coronation'" - a Mozart mass I sang in high school. I scrolled right, because I was curious how much an entire mass would cost, even as one track - still just $.99, but it turns out this was just the Agnus Dei, part of a Christmas CD. Anyway, "genre" caught my eye - because, as I read it, they had Mozart classed as hip-hop!
Of course, they didn't really; they had a Black-Eyed Peas song listed as hip-hop on the next line, and the Agnus Dei listed as holiday. But it sure turned me upside down for a second.
If playing with iTunes is this dangerous (ok, it's dangerous other ways too), maybe I'd better go edit our opening statement after all.
Of course, they didn't really; they had a Black-Eyed Peas song listed as hip-hop on the next line, and the Agnus Dei listed as holiday. But it sure turned me upside down for a second.
If playing with iTunes is this dangerous (ok, it's dangerous other ways too), maybe I'd better go edit our opening statement after all.
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Public Service Announcement
Please advise: the following theological terms have been temporarily redefined:
Adversity: Working with Microsoft Word. (Well, ok. Working with Microsoft, period.)
Charity: That instinct which prevents my killing anyone.
Grace: The promise that, in two days, this disputatio will be over.
Ignorance: See bliss.
Temptation: The idea of going to bed at a reasonable hour.
To hell with that last one, I'm going to bed anyway.
Adversity: Working with Microsoft Word. (Well, ok. Working with Microsoft, period.)
Charity: That instinct which prevents my killing anyone.
Grace: The promise that, in two days, this disputatio will be over.
Ignorance: See bliss.
Temptation: The idea of going to bed at a reasonable hour.
To hell with that last one, I'm going to bed anyway.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Three days
A week or so ago, one of my books for Research Methods pointed out that you really ought to pick a research topic you're passionate about, because who wants to spend 60 hours (they assume 60 hours to a 20 page paper) working on something you don't even care about?
I begin to see the point.
Turns out, I really care very little about insisting that assisted suicide be morally equal to murder or that suicide violates a fundamental Christian tenet. I'm at T minus 65 hours or so, and instead of thinking about nothing else, I'm ready to be thinking about anything else. Not because I'm so wildly overprepared there's nothing left to do, just because I really don't care that much.
I've got a stack of books and articles on 1 Corinthians 6:13c, and I'd love nothing better right now than to plunge into those. I wouldn't mind reading through other NT books looking for the topic for my second probe/paper. I'd be perfectly happy to give my undivided attention to reading about 2 Corinthians or Romans for class or translating Galatians 5. I'd gladly switch for another early church history disputatio - maybe the world needs defending against Donatism. Heck, I'd even rather be prepping my next ethics disputatio. (Coming soon: Yodabeth argues against the just wage! At least I've done a fair bit of opposition research already - thank you, Biblical Theology case study).
Instead, I'm writing what amount to medical ethics memos, trying to put together an airtight argument on a topic I'd just as soon leave alone.
Three days, and I can turn my attention to the Bible for awhile....
I begin to see the point.
Turns out, I really care very little about insisting that assisted suicide be morally equal to murder or that suicide violates a fundamental Christian tenet. I'm at T minus 65 hours or so, and instead of thinking about nothing else, I'm ready to be thinking about anything else. Not because I'm so wildly overprepared there's nothing left to do, just because I really don't care that much.
I've got a stack of books and articles on 1 Corinthians 6:13c, and I'd love nothing better right now than to plunge into those. I wouldn't mind reading through other NT books looking for the topic for my second probe/paper. I'd be perfectly happy to give my undivided attention to reading about 2 Corinthians or Romans for class or translating Galatians 5. I'd gladly switch for another early church history disputatio - maybe the world needs defending against Donatism. Heck, I'd even rather be prepping my next ethics disputatio. (Coming soon: Yodabeth argues against the just wage! At least I've done a fair bit of opposition research already - thank you, Biblical Theology case study).
Instead, I'm writing what amount to medical ethics memos, trying to put together an airtight argument on a topic I'd just as soon leave alone.
Three days, and I can turn my attention to the Bible for awhile....
Friday, January 20, 2006
Friday Feast
Via Tripp
Appetizer
About how many times per day do you check your email?
Um. Hmm. Probably... yeah, don't know. Something over 10 - and more if I'm writing that day.
Soup
If you had the money to collect something really valuable, what would it be?
Probably icons, or maybe books.
Salad
Write a sentence using the letters of your favorite beverage. (Example: The egret admires.)
Why isn't Nana eating?
Main Course
If you could be on a game show, which one would you want it to be?
Being on a game show doesn't really sound like much fun, although when I was a kid my brother and I wanted to be on "I'm Telling!"
Dessert
Name 3 computer programs or web sites you would hate to be without.
Firefox, iChat, iTunes
Appetizer
About how many times per day do you check your email?
Um. Hmm. Probably... yeah, don't know. Something over 10 - and more if I'm writing that day.
Soup
If you had the money to collect something really valuable, what would it be?
Probably icons, or maybe books.
Salad
Write a sentence using the letters of your favorite beverage. (Example: The egret admires.)
Why isn't Nana eating?
Main Course
If you could be on a game show, which one would you want it to be?
Being on a game show doesn't really sound like much fun, although when I was a kid my brother and I wanted to be on "I'm Telling!"
Dessert
Name 3 computer programs or web sites you would hate to be without.
Firefox, iChat, iTunes
In lieu of a concert:
I'm having a blast this afternoon, relaxing at Panera with my computer and iTunes. What makes it so much fun? Well, I'm researching, and I'm in the early stages. I'm not sure if it's a good sign or a bad one that bopping around catalogs and indices looking for sources for my New Testament research probe feels like "play" for me right now, but it does. I can justify not working on my disputatio (which is probably what I should be doing), because I'm doing homework. But it doesn't feel like homework - it feels like play.* Hooray for leisurely (virtual) strolls through the BS catalog!
*Admittedly, what I'd really like to do tonight is go see One of the Girls. But since I really can't justify taking the time to go to a concert right now, this is a decent way to spend a couple of hours. If you're looking for something to do tonight, though, you should definitely go. They rock (and folk, and bluegrass, etc).
*Admittedly, what I'd really like to do tonight is go see One of the Girls. But since I really can't justify taking the time to go to a concert right now, this is a decent way to spend a couple of hours. If you're looking for something to do tonight, though, you should definitely go. They rock (and folk, and bluegrass, etc).
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Um. Stuff. And Things.
Disputatios and research probes, mostly. Two of each, this quarter, and three of the four at once right now. Disputatios make me want to obsess only about that topic, only on that assignment, and I don't have that opportunity right now, which makes me a wee bit uneasy. The probes are scheduled not to overlap, but because I'm writing the second one as a paper and using it for my research methods class, the topic and research question for that one are due next Thursday, before the first probe is actually due to the professor. Hurray for multi-tasking!
At the moment, though, I think I ought to see what I'm meant to be learning about 1 Corinthians generally, so that I can go to class unashamed tomorrow.
I'll try to think of something more interesting to talk about soon, I promise.
At the moment, though, I think I ought to see what I'm meant to be learning about 1 Corinthians generally, so that I can go to class unashamed tomorrow.
I'll try to think of something more interesting to talk about soon, I promise.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Tired, tired, tired
I'd like to come on here and tell you about all the exciting things I did this weekend that kept me from posting.
Unfortunately, there weren't any. Last week left me thoroughly exhausted - so my weekend consisted of varying between bone-tired, zombie-tired, dead-asleep-tired, normal-person-tired, and now grumpy-tired-of-being-tired-tired. I did go to church yesterday, and did laundry on Saturday, but other than that I just slept, stared, and tried to do what little homework I could manage.
People have congratulated me today on how rested I must be. But really, I'm still just tired.
Unfortunately, there weren't any. Last week left me thoroughly exhausted - so my weekend consisted of varying between bone-tired, zombie-tired, dead-asleep-tired, normal-person-tired, and now grumpy-tired-of-being-tired-tired. I did go to church yesterday, and did laundry on Saturday, but other than that I just slept, stared, and tried to do what little homework I could manage.
People have congratulated me today on how rested I must be. But really, I'm still just tired.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
apparently I picked wrong
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Monday, January 09, 2006
I should have learned to spot
When I was dancing, I was never much good at turns, because I was never much good at spotting, so I got dizzier than I should have. Right now, I'm remembering that I should have learned to spot - this week is making me dizzy:
~I'm co-MCing Boar's Head. I'm also co-proprietor of Ye Olde Costume Shoppe, and a cantor.
~I'm subbing for winter quarter as coordinator of both Seabury and Western style services. Wednesday, the day before Boar's Head, is the first Western style (read: high church) service of the quarter.
~Since somehow we're having a crisis of liturgical participation, I'm doing a lot liturgically this week: canting an evensong and Boar's Head, LEMing once, intercessing once, officiating at a service I'd never done before, sac'ing once (at the aforementioned Western service).
~Oh. Right. There's also those pesky, marvelous, time-consuming things called classes. Those are back in session, which means both class time and homework.
I think I'm also supposed to eat, sleep, and breathe this week, though I'm not sure. It's all great stuff, really great, but if we keep the Seabury and Western services next year, I'm recommending we not have a Western service the day before Boar's Head. Even if they're radically different in style, they're both complicated, and they both require many people to participate in them - a challenge even if next year the S/W coordinator is smart enough not to double as Boar's Head MC.
~I'm co-MCing Boar's Head. I'm also co-proprietor of Ye Olde Costume Shoppe, and a cantor.
~I'm subbing for winter quarter as coordinator of both Seabury and Western style services. Wednesday, the day before Boar's Head, is the first Western style (read: high church) service of the quarter.
~Since somehow we're having a crisis of liturgical participation, I'm doing a lot liturgically this week: canting an evensong and Boar's Head, LEMing once, intercessing once, officiating at a service I'd never done before, sac'ing once (at the aforementioned Western service).
~Oh. Right. There's also those pesky, marvelous, time-consuming things called classes. Those are back in session, which means both class time and homework.
I think I'm also supposed to eat, sleep, and breathe this week, though I'm not sure. It's all great stuff, really great, but if we keep the Seabury and Western services next year, I'm recommending we not have a Western service the day before Boar's Head. Even if they're radically different in style, they're both complicated, and they both require many people to participate in them - a challenge even if next year the S/W coordinator is smart enough not to double as Boar's Head MC.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Winter Quarter Gender Balance Award
Admittedly, my spring semester class hasn't started, and that's technically on my winter quarter schedule. But for Seabury classes, here's this term's gender breakdown of assigned authors:
Ethics II: Two books from last term - both edited by men, authored by both men and women (though not as well balanced as I'd like). Three new books - one by a woman, two by men. Rating: Acceptable, if unimpressive.
New Testament II: One book from NT I - by a man. Three new books - one by a woman, two by men. Rating: Again, acceptable.
Research Methods: Three books - one by a woman, two by men. Rating: Also acceptable.
Preaching B: Three books from last term - one by a man, one by a woman, one by a man and a woman. (Incidentally, that's also one by a black man, one by a white woman, and one by a Latin American man and woman.)
Clearly, Preaching B wins hands down. Again. But since there are no new books, we'll also give each of the other classes an honorable mention - happily, there are no unacceptable classes this term.
Ethics II: Two books from last term - both edited by men, authored by both men and women (though not as well balanced as I'd like). Three new books - one by a woman, two by men. Rating: Acceptable, if unimpressive.
New Testament II: One book from NT I - by a man. Three new books - one by a woman, two by men. Rating: Again, acceptable.
Research Methods: Three books - one by a woman, two by men. Rating: Also acceptable.
Preaching B: Three books from last term - one by a man, one by a woman, one by a man and a woman. (Incidentally, that's also one by a black man, one by a white woman, and one by a Latin American man and woman.)
Clearly, Preaching B wins hands down. Again. But since there are no new books, we'll also give each of the other classes an honorable mention - happily, there are no unacceptable classes this term.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
To Do
~Deliver pointed Sarum preface for Boar's Head
~Figure out cantors for Boar's Head
~Find Charles Palmerston Anderson, His Propers
~Ponder the replacement of watch batteries
~Return library books/cds
~Put away more of the books that came back with me at Christmas
~Read for NT and ethics
~Start pondering first research probe
~See Narnia.
~Acquire food
~Actually eat, preferably more than once today.
~Change sheets and towels
~Go to Vogue and get trimmings for Boar's Head dress (unless I do that tomorrow... thinking tomorrow sounds good right now)
~Read about postmodernism
~Go to Borders; decide whether to exchange one or two Christmas gifts.
~A nap would be nice...
Guess I'd better stop blogging and get going....
~Figure out cantors for Boar's Head
~Find Charles Palmerston Anderson, His Propers
~Ponder the replacement of watch batteries
~Return library books/cds
~Put away more of the books that came back with me at Christmas
~Read for NT and ethics
~Start pondering first research probe
~See Narnia.
~Acquire food
~Actually eat, preferably more than once today.
~Change sheets and towels
~Go to Vogue and get trimmings for Boar's Head dress (unless I do that tomorrow... thinking tomorrow sounds good right now)
~Read about postmodernism
~Go to Borders; decide whether to exchange one or two Christmas gifts.
~A nap would be nice...
Guess I'd better stop blogging and get going....
Friday, January 06, 2006
Glad this year isn't last year
I have signed up for health insurance. I have paid for health insurance. I have been assured that I am in fact covered under Seabury's health insurance. I still have no insurance card. I still can't get through to the provider to ask for a card.
Really glad that, so far (knock on wood), I haven't needed the card.
Really frustrated that even as a paying customer it's this difficult just to get the card. I can't even imagine how people who are less privileged than I negotiate the health care system at all.
Really glad that, so far (knock on wood), I haven't needed the card.
Really frustrated that even as a paying customer it's this difficult just to get the card. I can't even imagine how people who are less privileged than I negotiate the health care system at all.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Short
No, I don't mean me (that's not news), nor this post (unlikely to happen). I mean my patience today.
That's had its upside:
~I finally stopped ignoring my confusion about postmodernism. (That sounds more confessional in tone than I intended, but I'm not fixing it.) Since I got to seminary, it seems every other class and every other reading assignment mention postmodernism, but some mean it more narrowly than others, and they often contradict each other, so that I don't know anymore what counts in a reasonably restricted definition (i.e., not just anything said/written/thought in the last 20 years). I'm hoping to fix that now.
~I've been more efficient than usual, thereby accomplishing more than usual during the day.
~I've been impatient even with my usual lack of motivation to do things, also contributing to a productive day.
But it's also had its downside:
~When I get impatient in the way I was today, I engage poorly in discussions about oppression, especially when it gets to feeling personal. That meant that in today's ethics class discussion about feminist theology, liberation theology, dynamics of oppression, difference and otherness, etc., I alternated between wanting to crawl in a hole and never deal with any of it again or wanting to rip heads off.
~It's usually less than helpful when I get impatient with my own feelings - particularly when I get impatient with my own impatience.
I think we're itching for a fit of honesty soon. Be ye warned.
That's had its upside:
~I finally stopped ignoring my confusion about postmodernism. (That sounds more confessional in tone than I intended, but I'm not fixing it.) Since I got to seminary, it seems every other class and every other reading assignment mention postmodernism, but some mean it more narrowly than others, and they often contradict each other, so that I don't know anymore what counts in a reasonably restricted definition (i.e., not just anything said/written/thought in the last 20 years). I'm hoping to fix that now.
~I've been more efficient than usual, thereby accomplishing more than usual during the day.
~I've been impatient even with my usual lack of motivation to do things, also contributing to a productive day.
But it's also had its downside:
~When I get impatient in the way I was today, I engage poorly in discussions about oppression, especially when it gets to feeling personal. That meant that in today's ethics class discussion about feminist theology, liberation theology, dynamics of oppression, difference and otherness, etc., I alternated between wanting to crawl in a hole and never deal with any of it again or wanting to rip heads off.
~It's usually less than helpful when I get impatient with my own feelings - particularly when I get impatient with my own impatience.
I think we're itching for a fit of honesty soon. Be ye warned.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Twitch. Grumble. Groan.
Books that propose to teach their readers how to write good research papers (or write anything, really) ought themselves to be properly edited. I understand that the most conscientious writers and copy editors will occasionally miss a typo, but the errors shouldn't be so consistent as to draw my attention away from the author's efforts to teach me better writing.
(It would make me very happy if all books were properly edited, really, but a book on better writing? Come on.)
(It would make me very happy if all books were properly edited, really, but a book on better writing? Come on.)
Monday, January 02, 2006
Hi, folks!
We're back! We told you we would be!
(Points for correctly identifying the movie from which that dialogue comes.)
I'm back on campus and therefore online. I'm also wearing a brand-new Ohio State t-shirt - in triumph, as the Buckeyes tromped the Fighting Irish 34-20 this afternoon.
I've got a revolving door of roommates, this week - Barb is still in the process of moving out, Hannah Scheid is staying across the hall on her winter break from college, Jennifer and Shana will be using the rooms across the hall for GOEs this week during the day, and while they're testing over there, Andrew will be day camping over on this side of the hall so that Hope can write her exams in peace at their apartment. This despite technically being the only resident in this part of Seabury - oh, and speaking of isolated Seabury residents, Jim is likely to be stopping through more often, now that we're both roommate-less. ;) Seriously, I think it will be good to have friends around more again for a while.
This week should ease into classes a little (though there's always the chance that I'll rue jinxing myself with that statement). One class is canceled this week, though there's work to be done for it; another won't start until the end of the month. My mornings and late afternoons show every indication of filling quickly for the quarter, but for this week they're still remarkably open. (Don't get any ideas, folks - I've already got a variety of things in mind to do that filling. It's just a matter of pushing them around properly, like one of those little plastic puzzles where you only have one open space to work with.) I hope to get well situated (i.e., not behind) with schoolwork, hit the ground running with liturgical responsibilities (which seem to be more numerous this quarter than usual - glad I'm not preaching in chapel yet), and hold on to enough of the calm from last quarter and break that this quarter's pace doesn't shock my system. That's enough of a load for any week to bear, really.
To close this lengthy post (hey, I've been off a week), I'd like to congratulate my professors for this term. I went to the bookstore today and bought a grand total of six books. Admittedly, I don't yet know what I'll have to buy for my Greek class, but I have a remarkable number of return customers this quarter - New Testament II, Ethics II, and Preaching B all repeat at least one major text from their predecessors, and Preaching has no new ones at all. An impressive feat! Your students thank you.
[Later: Note to self - don't forget you also have to finish your candidacy questions by Friday.]
(Points for correctly identifying the movie from which that dialogue comes.)
I'm back on campus and therefore online. I'm also wearing a brand-new Ohio State t-shirt - in triumph, as the Buckeyes tromped the Fighting Irish 34-20 this afternoon.
I've got a revolving door of roommates, this week - Barb is still in the process of moving out, Hannah Scheid is staying across the hall on her winter break from college, Jennifer and Shana will be using the rooms across the hall for GOEs this week during the day, and while they're testing over there, Andrew will be day camping over on this side of the hall so that Hope can write her exams in peace at their apartment. This despite technically being the only resident in this part of Seabury - oh, and speaking of isolated Seabury residents, Jim is likely to be stopping through more often, now that we're both roommate-less. ;) Seriously, I think it will be good to have friends around more again for a while.
This week should ease into classes a little (though there's always the chance that I'll rue jinxing myself with that statement). One class is canceled this week, though there's work to be done for it; another won't start until the end of the month. My mornings and late afternoons show every indication of filling quickly for the quarter, but for this week they're still remarkably open. (Don't get any ideas, folks - I've already got a variety of things in mind to do that filling. It's just a matter of pushing them around properly, like one of those little plastic puzzles where you only have one open space to work with.) I hope to get well situated (i.e., not behind) with schoolwork, hit the ground running with liturgical responsibilities (which seem to be more numerous this quarter than usual - glad I'm not preaching in chapel yet), and hold on to enough of the calm from last quarter and break that this quarter's pace doesn't shock my system. That's enough of a load for any week to bear, really.
To close this lengthy post (hey, I've been off a week), I'd like to congratulate my professors for this term. I went to the bookstore today and bought a grand total of six books. Admittedly, I don't yet know what I'll have to buy for my Greek class, but I have a remarkable number of return customers this quarter - New Testament II, Ethics II, and Preaching B all repeat at least one major text from their predecessors, and Preaching has no new ones at all. An impressive feat! Your students thank you.
[Later: Note to self - don't forget you also have to finish your candidacy questions by Friday.]
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Thursday, December 22, 2005
With apologies to the chartreuse buzzards:
Three. Semi. Narians.*
Three. Semi. Narians.
Three seminarians sitting in a Toyota.
Oh, look! One has returned!
Let us rejoice! Alleluia!
Two. Semi. Narians.*
Two. Semi. Narians.
Two seminarians sitting in a Toyota.
Oh, look! One has returned!
Let us rejoice! Alleluia!
One. Semi. Narian.
One. Semi. Narian.
One seminarian sitting in a Toyota.
Oh, look! One has returned!
Let us rejoice! Alleluia!
*Sort of, except Jane's graduated. But I couldn't think of a more accurate version that worked in the song.
(In other words, Jennifer, Jane, and I all made it safely to and from Hope's ordination.)
Three. Semi. Narians.
Three seminarians sitting in a Toyota.
Oh, look! One has returned!
Let us rejoice! Alleluia!
Two. Semi. Narians.*
Two. Semi. Narians.
Two seminarians sitting in a Toyota.
Oh, look! One has returned!
Let us rejoice! Alleluia!
One. Semi. Narian.
One. Semi. Narian.
One seminarian sitting in a Toyota.
Oh, look! One has returned!
Let us rejoice! Alleluia!
*Sort of, except Jane's graduated. But I couldn't think of a more accurate version that worked in the song.
(In other words, Jennifer, Jane, and I all made it safely to and from Hope's ordination.)
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
hurray for Christmas traditions!
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Monday, December 19, 2005
Busy, busy, busy
Friday, the internet was down at Book and Bean. Today, there is a brand-new network. Hurray!
This weekend has been busy: the little brother came home for tree decorating, and our family went out for dinner Friday, all four of us. It's the most relaxed time we've had since I got home. The rest of the weekend was busy again, with trees to be decorated, Christmas parties to go to, grandmothers to be cared for, and presents to be bought and wrapped.
Tomorrow I head up to Jane's, so that we can head down to Hope's ordination Wednesday, and back to Jane's Thursday. So I'll be offline for a few days more, probably - hmm. Actually that seems unnecessary. Internet is more readily available at Jane's than it is here. Well, we'll see.
Today is most definitely Monday, and to prove it I met with my rector for lunch and will interview with my vestry for candidacy endorsement at dinner. (I've been told that I am to feel free to eat, not to allow speaking to interfere with eating, etc., but my father tells me he's yet to see a vegetarian meal at vestry. So we'll see about that too.)
Anyway, despite today being Monday, here's last Friday's Friday Five, since I didn't have internet on Friday:
1) Have you ever gotten a really good kiss under the mistletoe? I don't think so, although my high school boyfriend and I did so many Christmas shows with our show choir that it's possible I just don't remember.
2) Do you know anyone who makes real eggnog, not the stuff from the carton? And if so, do you actually like it?
Yes, and yes! My great-grandmother always made her own cranberry eggnog at Christmas, and my mother and I make it now. It's delicious.
3) What's your favorite Christmas party album/CD ever?
Oh, there are so many... probably my long-term favorite is Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song. But I also loved my Rainbow Brite Christmas album (yes, I mean album, not cassette/CD), and I love the Julie Andrews CD my parents have, and then there's Bing Crosby, and the Robert Shaw Chorale, and....
4) Does your office/workplace have a party? Do the people there ever behave the way people in movies behave at office parties, which is to say, badly?
I have no office. Although, maybe I'll turn my new extra room into an office. But it's unlikely to hold parties. That's the common room's job. It's bigger, better decorated, and has more and better seating. Also it's closer to the "kitchenette" room. Since I currently have no office, though, there's nobody in it to behave badly. Sorry.
5) If you have to bring something to a party, what is it likely to be? Do people like it?
Wine. Or maybe napkins or soda, if it's not a wine kind of party. My kitchen is in the same dimension of potential reality as my office, which makes it terribly difficult to cook or bake things in it.
This weekend has been busy: the little brother came home for tree decorating, and our family went out for dinner Friday, all four of us. It's the most relaxed time we've had since I got home. The rest of the weekend was busy again, with trees to be decorated, Christmas parties to go to, grandmothers to be cared for, and presents to be bought and wrapped.
Tomorrow I head up to Jane's, so that we can head down to Hope's ordination Wednesday, and back to Jane's Thursday. So I'll be offline for a few days more, probably - hmm. Actually that seems unnecessary. Internet is more readily available at Jane's than it is here. Well, we'll see.
Today is most definitely Monday, and to prove it I met with my rector for lunch and will interview with my vestry for candidacy endorsement at dinner. (I've been told that I am to feel free to eat, not to allow speaking to interfere with eating, etc., but my father tells me he's yet to see a vegetarian meal at vestry. So we'll see about that too.)
Anyway, despite today being Monday, here's last Friday's Friday Five, since I didn't have internet on Friday:
1) Have you ever gotten a really good kiss under the mistletoe? I don't think so, although my high school boyfriend and I did so many Christmas shows with our show choir that it's possible I just don't remember.
2) Do you know anyone who makes real eggnog, not the stuff from the carton? And if so, do you actually like it?
Yes, and yes! My great-grandmother always made her own cranberry eggnog at Christmas, and my mother and I make it now. It's delicious.
3) What's your favorite Christmas party album/CD ever?
Oh, there are so many... probably my long-term favorite is Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song. But I also loved my Rainbow Brite Christmas album (yes, I mean album, not cassette/CD), and I love the Julie Andrews CD my parents have, and then there's Bing Crosby, and the Robert Shaw Chorale, and....
4) Does your office/workplace have a party? Do the people there ever behave the way people in movies behave at office parties, which is to say, badly?
I have no office. Although, maybe I'll turn my new extra room into an office. But it's unlikely to hold parties. That's the common room's job. It's bigger, better decorated, and has more and better seating. Also it's closer to the "kitchenette" room. Since I currently have no office, though, there's nobody in it to behave badly. Sorry.
5) If you have to bring something to a party, what is it likely to be? Do people like it?
Wine. Or maybe napkins or soda, if it's not a wine kind of party. My kitchen is in the same dimension of potential reality as my office, which makes it terribly difficult to cook or bake things in it.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
A lengthy, rambling, discourse on piano fiddling
Hunh. That title makes it sound as though I've been doing something with a fiddle and a piano simultaneously. That title is misleading, I guess. I have no facility with the fiddle.
What I've really been doing is fiddling around on the piano. I prefer "fiddling around on" to "playing" because the latter implies that I can, in fact, play. Which is false. What I can do is read music and learn simple tunes, and fool around with things. I really like coming to my parents' and having a piano around (that I don't have to sneak into Seabury Lounge at unsettlingly late hours to use, and that Seymour doesn't have to hear me fiddle with). Yesterday, I decided it might be useful if I learned to play the "Lute Lullaby" that the Ladies of the Court sing for Ohio's Boar's Head, since my mother needs to learn the 2nd soprano part by Saturday for unit rehearsal. One of the things that makes it work for our volunteer, once-a-year, group is that it's fairly simple, so it wasn't too tough to learn - and it was really fun.
I keep forgetting how much I really like playing the piano when I actually sit down and do it. I'm still a little regretful that I didn't switch piano teachers earlier in life - instead, I quit after three years of lessons and got a new teacher after about six years off. I really loved my piano lessons with that second teacher, and I wonder if I would have stuck with them had I started with her. Piano lessons might have been the thing I missed most about going off to college, actually. I'm pretty sure I have more natural talent for piano than I do for singing or guitar, but I've never gotten to a level where I have any kind of useful skills in terms of playing for anyone but myself. Certainly piano is the only instrument I've ever tried where more effort and discipline produce remarkably improved effects, and it draws me in in a different way than either of the others.
At any rate, I've decided that piano lessons are near the top of the list of non-churchy things I'd like to do when I get a full-time church job, assuming I have access to a piano somehow. Don't worry - it's really a very short list, and I'm well aware that most of it just won't happen. Pretty much the list is dance classes, a second modern language (probably French), and piano lessons. Oh, and Girl Scouting. Ok, so not a terribly short list in terms of time consumption. But, like I said, I know most of it won't happen. Assuming I don't have to buy a piano to make lessons work, picking up piano lessons is more affordable than taking French (though a second modern language is certainly the most necessary of the three). Certainly starting piano lessons, which are generally not a group affair, is far less intimidating than getting back into dancing.
Anyway, enough rambling for now. I've spent almost all of the last 48 hours alone, and have just had a mocha - can you tell? I think I'd better go do something else with my caffeinated brain - maybe get ahead on some class reading or something equally, um, calming. Or I could always just go home and fiddle around on the piano some more.
What I've really been doing is fiddling around on the piano. I prefer "fiddling around on" to "playing" because the latter implies that I can, in fact, play. Which is false. What I can do is read music and learn simple tunes, and fool around with things. I really like coming to my parents' and having a piano around (that I don't have to sneak into Seabury Lounge at unsettlingly late hours to use, and that Seymour doesn't have to hear me fiddle with). Yesterday, I decided it might be useful if I learned to play the "Lute Lullaby" that the Ladies of the Court sing for Ohio's Boar's Head, since my mother needs to learn the 2nd soprano part by Saturday for unit rehearsal. One of the things that makes it work for our volunteer, once-a-year, group is that it's fairly simple, so it wasn't too tough to learn - and it was really fun.
I keep forgetting how much I really like playing the piano when I actually sit down and do it. I'm still a little regretful that I didn't switch piano teachers earlier in life - instead, I quit after three years of lessons and got a new teacher after about six years off. I really loved my piano lessons with that second teacher, and I wonder if I would have stuck with them had I started with her. Piano lessons might have been the thing I missed most about going off to college, actually. I'm pretty sure I have more natural talent for piano than I do for singing or guitar, but I've never gotten to a level where I have any kind of useful skills in terms of playing for anyone but myself. Certainly piano is the only instrument I've ever tried where more effort and discipline produce remarkably improved effects, and it draws me in in a different way than either of the others.
At any rate, I've decided that piano lessons are near the top of the list of non-churchy things I'd like to do when I get a full-time church job, assuming I have access to a piano somehow. Don't worry - it's really a very short list, and I'm well aware that most of it just won't happen. Pretty much the list is dance classes, a second modern language (probably French), and piano lessons. Oh, and Girl Scouting. Ok, so not a terribly short list in terms of time consumption. But, like I said, I know most of it won't happen. Assuming I don't have to buy a piano to make lessons work, picking up piano lessons is more affordable than taking French (though a second modern language is certainly the most necessary of the three). Certainly starting piano lessons, which are generally not a group affair, is far less intimidating than getting back into dancing.
Anyway, enough rambling for now. I've spent almost all of the last 48 hours alone, and have just had a mocha - can you tell? I think I'd better go do something else with my caffeinated brain - maybe get ahead on some class reading or something equally, um, calming. Or I could always just go home and fiddle around on the piano some more.
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Back to the grindstone, sort of
Well, in so far as my hometown's... thing.... is the grindstone, because it started life as a quarry town.* So I'm back to the land of the grindstone, but otherwise very much on break. Today my accomplishments have included going to Book and Bean to use the wireless (much, much faster and more satisfying than trying to read blogs and such on my parents' computer), returning a couple of library books for my mother, and looking at the questions I'm supposed to answer for my Seabury candidacy evaluation. Not answering any of them, mind you, just rereading them and sort of noting their existence. Now I'm off to the grocery store to pick up a few things - my parents have been home little enough recently that most of the food in the house is leftover sweets from their party this weekend, or frozen meat.
*What does one call that sort of a thing? It's not a mascot, quite, or a symbol or sign or anything like that. And it's more than just a nickname (The Grindstone City) because there are actual grindstones around and such. It's a... thing.
*What does one call that sort of a thing? It's not a mascot, quite, or a symbol or sign or anything like that. And it's more than just a nickname (The Grindstone City) because there are actual grindstones around and such. It's a... thing.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
STOP DOING THAT!!!
Roger, Gill, JD, and Caroline seem to think that they needed to leave Seabury just now. (Ok, to be fair, I don't think JD was really in the loop on this.) I disagree.
People should stop leaving.
People should stop leaving.
Another one
| Androgynous You scored 60 masculinity and 53 femininity! |
| You scored high on both masculinity and femininity. You have a strong personality exhibiting characteristics of both traditional sex roles. |
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My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Bem Sex Role Inventory Test written by weirdscience on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
More and more evidence that my ex was right about me (eek!)
Saturday, December 10, 2005
A solution!
Brooke, in his comment on my last library post, has kindly demonstrated for us all why I refuse to use the Library of Congress system. I hope never to use a library system for my own books - Nielsen Library ruined me on that forever.
Susie, however, reminded me that my other thought had been to have ethics near cultural studies. So my new system will run:
~Reference
~OT, Bible, NT, Biblical Theology
~Theology
~Ethics
~Cultural Studies
~Missiology
~Leadership
~Pastoral Care
~Spiritual Biography
~Funky interfaith/generally spiritual stuff
~Books of prayers and liturgies that aren't officially licensed by ECUSA
~Liturgy/liturgical theology
~Various and sundry other, beginning with ancient languages of the sort used by the early Christian liturgists.
Methinks this will also make it easier to work in preaching - I imagine it will eventually go somewhere between ethics and spiritual biography.
Susie, however, reminded me that my other thought had been to have ethics near cultural studies. So my new system will run:
~Reference
~OT, Bible, NT, Biblical Theology
~Theology
~Ethics
~Cultural Studies
~Missiology
~Leadership
~Pastoral Care
~Spiritual Biography
~Funky interfaith/generally spiritual stuff
~Books of prayers and liturgies that aren't officially licensed by ECUSA
~Liturgy/liturgical theology
~Various and sundry other, beginning with ancient languages of the sort used by the early Christian liturgists.
Methinks this will also make it easier to work in preaching - I imagine it will eventually go somewhere between ethics and spiritual biography.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
That is so true.
You are bamboo.
Warm, cozy, and thoughtful, you take your time and
enjoy how things feel, smell, and taste. You
love the craft and beauty of traditional
things, and you value the comfort and
experience of knitting as much as the results.
But while you are reveling in your warm cozies,
don't get stuck. Warm is wonderful, but so is
the whole wide world!
What kind of knitting needles are you?
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Booklovers! Librarians!
Currently, my bookshelf looks as follows:
There is no ethics section in that schema, nor is there leadership (though I think I had leadership after pastoral care at one point, which I could live with). I now have ethics books (and leadership books). Oh, and preaching, but that stays on the "current quarter" shelf for a while because we're using those books all year.
The question: where should ethics go? It doesn't make sense to put it with my one other ethics book between pastoral care and other. Do I put it between theology and liturgy, because it really flows best from theology? Then there's a disconnect between ethics and liturgy. Do I move theology, and run "biblical theology, theology, ethics, history, liturgy"? Then I lose the great chronological flow from New Testament into early church history, and the great connection of "theology, liturgical theology, liturgy." Does ethics belong between personal testimony/biography and cultural studies? Then where does "religion as academic curiosity/sociology" go?
I know this is a subject dear to the hearts of many readers. (Ok, a large percentage of readers - I'm not sure I really have "many" readers to begin with.) What would you do? I value greatly having my subjects flow into one another, and would be sad to have to adopt strict library-style separations. On the other hand, the more books I get and the more specific they become, the harder the flow becomes in some places.
Top shelf: reference - Bibles, dictionaries, concordance, official prayer books, etc.
After that: OT, general Bible, NT, biblical theology, church history (chronologically), historical theology, theology, liturgical theology, liturgics, prayers, interfaith prayers, biography/autobiographical theological stuffs, Jung's autobiography, religion as academic curiosity, religion/sociology, women's studies, sexuality, race studies, Gospel Mission, pastoral care, other nonfiction.
In the bedroom: fiction, personal devotional stuff, periodicals, journals.
There is no ethics section in that schema, nor is there leadership (though I think I had leadership after pastoral care at one point, which I could live with). I now have ethics books (and leadership books). Oh, and preaching, but that stays on the "current quarter" shelf for a while because we're using those books all year.
The question: where should ethics go? It doesn't make sense to put it with my one other ethics book between pastoral care and other. Do I put it between theology and liturgy, because it really flows best from theology? Then there's a disconnect between ethics and liturgy. Do I move theology, and run "biblical theology, theology, ethics, history, liturgy"? Then I lose the great chronological flow from New Testament into early church history, and the great connection of "theology, liturgical theology, liturgy." Does ethics belong between personal testimony/biography and cultural studies? Then where does "religion as academic curiosity/sociology" go?
I know this is a subject dear to the hearts of many readers. (Ok, a large percentage of readers - I'm not sure I really have "many" readers to begin with.) What would you do? I value greatly having my subjects flow into one another, and would be sad to have to adopt strict library-style separations. On the other hand, the more books I get and the more specific they become, the harder the flow becomes in some places.
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
five books meme
Take the first 5 novels from your bookshelf... then do the following:
1. Book 1 - take first sentence
2. Book 2 - the fifth sentence on page 57 (see note on 5)
3. Book 3 - second sentence on page 100
4. Book 4 - next to last sentence on page 150
5. Book 5 - Final sentence of the book. (how is this different from what I did with book 2? I'm changing number 2.)
Make the five sentences into a paragraph. Feel free to cheat and make it a better paragraph. Name the sources and then post.
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. There is something to be learned here, and we have to find out what. Worauf der Hund sich hinlegte und sich willig von Sofie streicheln liess. Meg had a quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter, while Jo set the sick-room in order, and Hannah "knocked up a couple of pies in case of company unexpected." Es sah ganz danach aus, als sollte dieser Sommer viel besser werden als der letzte.
1. Cry the Beloved Country
2. A Swiftly Tilting Planet
3. Sofies Welt
4. Little Women
5. Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban
As penance for the fact that half my novels here aren't in English, and because I like books, here's the nonfiction version:
Geb the earth commanded the Ennead to assemble. He made many promises, which are repeated in the following chapters. And yet, ultimately, our underwater, intuitive selves are never really incompatible with the above-water, intellectual part of our wholeness. The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants. I knew the dust would stay.
1. Old Testament Parallels (ed. Matthews and Benjamin)
2. Paul (E.P. Sanders)
3. Walking on Water (L'Engle)
4. Reformation Thought (McGrath)
5. The Shared Heart (ed. Mastoon)
1. Book 1 - take first sentence
2. Book 2 - the fifth sentence on page 57 (see note on 5)
3. Book 3 - second sentence on page 100
4. Book 4 - next to last sentence on page 150
5. Book 5 - Final sentence of the book. (how is this different from what I did with book 2? I'm changing number 2.)
Make the five sentences into a paragraph. Feel free to cheat and make it a better paragraph. Name the sources and then post.
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. There is something to be learned here, and we have to find out what. Worauf der Hund sich hinlegte und sich willig von Sofie streicheln liess. Meg had a quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter, while Jo set the sick-room in order, and Hannah "knocked up a couple of pies in case of company unexpected." Es sah ganz danach aus, als sollte dieser Sommer viel besser werden als der letzte.
1. Cry the Beloved Country
2. A Swiftly Tilting Planet
3. Sofies Welt
4. Little Women
5. Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban
As penance for the fact that half my novels here aren't in English, and because I like books, here's the nonfiction version:
Geb the earth commanded the Ennead to assemble. He made many promises, which are repeated in the following chapters. And yet, ultimately, our underwater, intuitive selves are never really incompatible with the above-water, intellectual part of our wholeness. The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants. I knew the dust would stay.
1. Old Testament Parallels (ed. Matthews and Benjamin)
2. Paul (E.P. Sanders)
3. Walking on Water (L'Engle)
4. Reformation Thought (McGrath)
5. The Shared Heart (ed. Mastoon)
Monday, December 05, 2005
Public Service Announcement
In case any of you have the memory problems of, well, a Campus Cook, may I remind you all:
SQUASH IS NOT AN ENTREE.
Also, chicken is not vegetarian. Neither is fish. And instant mashed potatoes plus mixed sauteed (boiled?) squash with a little tomato does not equal a balanced, satisfying, tasty, or otherwise positive dining experience. Nor does putting black beans in the salad bar to go with my macaroni and cheese at lunch count as feeding me for the day. Be less creative with the veggie alternatives at lunch (I don't really need macaroni and cheese with navy beans and asparagus in it as a lunch alternative to macaroni and cheese and salad bar) and feed me balanced dinners instead. It would be great if dinner didn't leave me hungry again three hours later, for instance. I can eat rice and beans every other day if I need to. Pasta dishes every Thursday will do. Rotate through your other ten real vegetarian meals on Tuesday nights and we've got a menu. But stop feeding me vegetable of the day with starch and calling it a meal.
Brought to you by the letter D and the number 5.
SQUASH IS NOT AN ENTREE.
Also, chicken is not vegetarian. Neither is fish. And instant mashed potatoes plus mixed sauteed (boiled?) squash with a little tomato does not equal a balanced, satisfying, tasty, or otherwise positive dining experience. Nor does putting black beans in the salad bar to go with my macaroni and cheese at lunch count as feeding me for the day. Be less creative with the veggie alternatives at lunch (I don't really need macaroni and cheese with navy beans and asparagus in it as a lunch alternative to macaroni and cheese and salad bar) and feed me balanced dinners instead. It would be great if dinner didn't leave me hungry again three hours later, for instance. I can eat rice and beans every other day if I need to. Pasta dishes every Thursday will do. Rotate through your other ten real vegetarian meals on Tuesday nights and we've got a menu. But stop feeding me vegetable of the day with starch and calling it a meal.
Brought to you by the letter D and the number 5.
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Saturday, December 03, 2005
and I thought the GOEs were scary
I just caught that Katherine Watson's first exam in Mona Lisa Smile requires a 1500 word essay, on the fly, in 40 minutes.
Yeah... I'll take 6 pages in 3.5 hours, thanks.
Yeah... I'll take 6 pages in 3.5 hours, thanks.
erm, help?
There's something I'm missing here.
Does he mean minus 25% again, after the 30%? Or is there some reason that in this particular calculation, the numbers run the opposite direction of what I expect? Mr Meacher seems a capable enough man to know that 25 is less than 30, so I don't honestly think he's got it wrong - I just don't understand how that works.
Ye great numbers of environmental statisticians among my readership, what does this mean?
The Montreal talks follow on from the Kyoto Protocol, which was signed in 1997 and called for 30% cuts by 2020.
Mr Meacher earlier told BBC Radio 4's Today programme further reductions in greenhouse gas emissions - widely thought to contribute to rising temperatures - are vital.
"We need now to aim for more. That is what climate change is telling us. We need to say minus 25% by 2025."
Does he mean minus 25% again, after the 30%? Or is there some reason that in this particular calculation, the numbers run the opposite direction of what I expect? Mr Meacher seems a capable enough man to know that 25 is less than 30, so I don't honestly think he's got it wrong - I just don't understand how that works.
Ye great numbers of environmental statisticians among my readership, what does this mean?
Gospel Birthday Meme
Via Cheesehead:
Matthew 10:6: "but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
Mark 10:6: "But from the beginning of creation, “God made them male and female.”"
Luke 10:6: "And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you."
John 10:6: "Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them."
Well, the first three were fairly comfortable, anyway....
Matthew 10:6: "but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
Mark 10:6: "But from the beginning of creation, “God made them male and female.”"
Luke 10:6: "And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you."
John 10:6: "Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them."
Well, the first three were fairly comfortable, anyway....
Thursday, December 01, 2005
holy...
I so was not expecting RENT to be that good (even with my aunt's recomendation). I'm amazed.
And I haven't cried that hard in a long time. (Also hadn't realized it had been that long since I'd seen the stage version.)
Shower and bed now... but WOW.
And I haven't cried that hard in a long time. (Also hadn't realized it had been that long since I'd seen the stage version.)
Shower and bed now... but WOW.
from Cecily
A. Put your music playlist on random.
B. Post the first line of the first 20 songs that start to play (along with these instructions).
C. Have your friends try to guess the title & artist for each lyric in the comments
D. No googling!
1. Si got this. It's Hammer and a Nail, Indigo Girls.
2. Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi Dominus et sub pennis ejus sperabis
3. Si got this, too. Power of Two, Indigo Girls.
4. Si more or less got this. The actual title is Jacob in Egypt, from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
5. There they gathered, in the meadow, in the meadow two by two (Close, Rory, but try again.)
6. Some folks are born made to wave the flag
7. Slappin' leather was devised during a wild streak in her life
[skipping Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, since it's hard to post the first line of an orchestral piece]
8. We get to be a ripple in the water
9. Rory got this (eventually ;) .) It's Champagne Supernova, by Oasis.
10. It was in the March of the winter I turned 17
11. Rory got this. The Flood, from Children of Eden
12. Rory got this, which is only right. It's What You Wish For, by Guster.
[skipping Come, Risen Lord, because it's no fun if the title is de facto the first line]
13. Am I the kind of brother who would leave you standing on this lonesome railroad track?
14. All the corners filled with sorrow, all the streets are filled with pain
[skipping When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, for the same reason as Come, Risen Lord]
15. Living under June, living under her
16. At last, my love has come along
17. Let the phone ring, let's go back to sleep
18. Rory got this. It's Father of Mine, by Everclear.
19. I'm blazing a trail that leads to vice
20. The boy, he thinks I'm damaged goods
B. Post the first line of the first 20 songs that start to play (along with these instructions).
C. Have your friends try to guess the title & artist for each lyric in the comments
D. No googling!
1. Si got this. It's Hammer and a Nail, Indigo Girls.
2. Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi Dominus et sub pennis ejus sperabis
3. Si got this, too. Power of Two, Indigo Girls.
4. Si more or less got this. The actual title is Jacob in Egypt, from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
5. There they gathered, in the meadow, in the meadow two by two (Close, Rory, but try again.)
6. Some folks are born made to wave the flag
7. Slappin' leather was devised during a wild streak in her life
[skipping Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, since it's hard to post the first line of an orchestral piece]
8. We get to be a ripple in the water
9. Rory got this (eventually ;) .) It's Champagne Supernova, by Oasis.
10. It was in the March of the winter I turned 17
11. Rory got this. The Flood, from Children of Eden
12. Rory got this, which is only right. It's What You Wish For, by Guster.
[skipping Come, Risen Lord, because it's no fun if the title is de facto the first line]
13. Am I the kind of brother who would leave you standing on this lonesome railroad track?
14. All the corners filled with sorrow, all the streets are filled with pain
[skipping When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, for the same reason as Come, Risen Lord]
15. Living under June, living under her
16. At last, my love has come along
17. Let the phone ring, let's go back to sleep
18. Rory got this. It's Father of Mine, by Everclear.
19. I'm blazing a trail that leads to vice
20. The boy, he thinks I'm damaged goods
Monday, November 28, 2005
Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell...
Why, oh, why, do we have to listen to the sheep and goats passage so terribly often? Why, oh, why, can our liturgical committee come up with nothing more creative for half of our LFF days?
Why, oh, why, does that happen to be the text on which I find myself (no, really) preaching for preaching class sometime in the next two weeks?
And why on earth am I preaching the sermon toward which I seem to be moving?
Ugh.
Why, oh, why, does that happen to be the text on which I find myself (no, really) preaching for preaching class sometime in the next two weeks?
And why on earth am I preaching the sermon toward which I seem to be moving?
Ugh.
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Scratching my head...
While listening to "The Women of Smith" and reading G. Brooke's blog, I happened upon the Gender Genie, which purports to predict an author's gender with 80% accuracy.
After submitting my description of our trip to the reservation, it gave me the following score:
Female Score: 712
Male Score: 1498
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
When I told it it was wrong, it replied:
That is one butch chick!
(I guess my ex was right....)
I'd love to know their rationale - on the breakdown of masculine and feminine words, "the" "is" "if" "in" and "this" showed up as masculine, while "him" "because" "since" and "too" were among the feminine keywords. Don't quite get that - what makes "is" masculine" and "am" feminine? I don't see any possible positive connection.
And now there's a part of me wondering "have I always been told I write well because I write masculinely?" That would be... disconcerting, at least.
Oh well.
[Later: my ice cream rant from this summer came in at Female: 517 Male: 2347, and even my "where are the books by women" rant came in at Female: 1389 Male: 1606. So content matter that might stereotypically or obviously be by a woman clearly has no effect, or at least little effect.]
After submitting my description of our trip to the reservation, it gave me the following score:
Female Score: 712
Male Score: 1498
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
When I told it it was wrong, it replied:
That is one butch chick!
(I guess my ex was right....)
I'd love to know their rationale - on the breakdown of masculine and feminine words, "the" "is" "if" "in" and "this" showed up as masculine, while "him" "because" "since" and "too" were among the feminine keywords. Don't quite get that - what makes "is" masculine" and "am" feminine? I don't see any possible positive connection.
And now there's a part of me wondering "have I always been told I write well because I write masculinely?" That would be... disconcerting, at least.
Oh well.
[Later: my ice cream rant from this summer came in at Female: 517 Male: 2347, and even my "where are the books by women" rant came in at Female: 1389 Male: 1606. So content matter that might stereotypically or obviously be by a woman clearly has no effect, or at least little effect.]
Saturday, November 26, 2005
pretty accurate, really
| Your Power Color Is Red-Orange |
 At Your Highest: You are warm, sensitive, and focused on your personal growth. At Your Lowest: You become defensive and critical if you feel attacked. In Love: You are loyal - but you demand the respect you deserve. How You're Attractive: You are very affectionate and inspire trust. Your Eternal Question: "Am I Respected?" |
Funny that this should be so accurate when red-orange might be my least favorite color...
Friday, November 25, 2005
And.... GO!
Well, we're home. We had an uneventful drive in, a lovely visit with my parents (also lunch with friends, and I had a meeting with my bishop that went extremely well), delicious food (ask us about the lentil roulade, if you haven't already heard), an equally uneventful drive back (the snow held off at both ends while we drove), and a delightful evening tonight. Blogging doesn't figure in there at all because in addition to being very busy, we didn't have much access - my parents' computer has decided to be slower than molasses, slow enough that internet use doesn't make sense.
You may notice that "got lots of homework done" doesn't figure in there anywhere. I've got yet another social engagement tomorrow (yes, just watch me flap those wings), but once I get home, the work begins in earnest. Mostly it's stuff I'm accustomed to, but I'm also in charge of a major power point presentation (or that section of it, more precisely), which is a bit of an adventure, since I've never done power point before.
So if I continue to be mostly absent for a couple of weeks, it's because I'm tearing around in the mad dash to finish out the quarter.
Now, I'm exhausted, and am going to bed so I have a little energy as I dive in tomorrow.
You may notice that "got lots of homework done" doesn't figure in there anywhere. I've got yet another social engagement tomorrow (yes, just watch me flap those wings), but once I get home, the work begins in earnest. Mostly it's stuff I'm accustomed to, but I'm also in charge of a major power point presentation (or that section of it, more precisely), which is a bit of an adventure, since I've never done power point before.
So if I continue to be mostly absent for a couple of weeks, it's because I'm tearing around in the mad dash to finish out the quarter.
Now, I'm exhausted, and am going to bed so I have a little energy as I dive in tomorrow.
Monday, November 21, 2005
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Mmm, pie...
| You Are Pumpkin Pie |
 You're the perfect combo of uniqueness and quality Those who like you are looking for something (someone!) special |
I might also be cream pie (combo of simplicity and divinity) or apple pie (combo of comforting and traditional), depending on what I actually decided to do on my spontaneous trip to Vegas. It's so hard to picture myself taking a spontaneous vacation right now that it's hard to say what I'd do first. (Also my immediate answer isn't really available - I'd likely eat first, but the only "eat" option involved spending lots of money.)
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Please punctuate properly:
Only by human efforts (through God’s grace) can racism end; only by dismantling racism can justice come about – and without justice, we cannot live as members of God’s kingdom.
Without the final clause, I'd use the semicolon between the first two. Without the first clause, I'd use a dash between the second two. In conversational writing, I'd use a semicolon and a period, and just start a new sentence with "and," rules be damned. But I can't do that in academic writing, and the combination of semicolon and dash looks awkward to me.
Members of the jury, what is your decision?
veggies v. comfort
I want vegetables for dinner (or with dinner, at least).
I do not want to leave home.
There are no vegetables at home.
Forget the ethics paper - this is a dilemma!
I do not want to leave home.
There are no vegetables at home.
Forget the ethics paper - this is a dilemma!
OHIO STATE VICTORY!!!
Ohio State: 25 Michigan: 21
Tressel v Carr: 4-1 Carr v Tressel: 1-4
It seemed like there were a LOT of injuries on both sides today (or else I'm just out of touch from not having a TV), but the Buckeyes held it together and beat out Michigan (obviously) - as usual, in a close, exciting finish. (Not quite as satisfying as the game my senior year, where Ohio State beat Michigan just in time for Saturday tea, so that I could stand to show my face to all my Michigan floormates, but I'll take it.)
GO BUCKS!!!
(Oh, and go MSU, beat Penn State, so OSU can win the conference!)
Tressel v Carr: 4-1 Carr v Tressel: 1-4
It seemed like there were a LOT of injuries on both sides today (or else I'm just out of touch from not having a TV), but the Buckeyes held it together and beat out Michigan (obviously) - as usual, in a close, exciting finish. (Not quite as satisfying as the game my senior year, where Ohio State beat Michigan just in time for Saturday tea, so that I could stand to show my face to all my Michigan floormates, but I'll take it.)
GO BUCKS!!!
(Oh, and go MSU, beat Penn State, so OSU can win the conference!)
Friday, November 18, 2005
Kiddie Lit
1) Earliest book you remember (read to you or by you)
We had a series of very, very short stories, teaching kids to read, where most of the words in each book had the same vowel sounds: so there was one about a cat that had the short a (Bad Max? Max the Cat?), etc. I remember one with a race car, and one with bubble gum, etc. I came across them a couple of years ago, packed away in a box from years ago. We probably put them away twenty or more years ago now, after my little brother learned to read (yeah, we were early readers).
2) Picture Book you would like to climb into
The Maggie B. It's about a little girl (I think she's actually only about three) who dreams that she has a ship of her own, with her baby brother James, and she takes care of the ship, and cooks them meals, and bathes him, and manages it during a storm, and all sorts of things, all by herself. It was probably my very favorite picture book, and I'd still love to be Maggie.
3) Favorite series of books (then or now)
Then: I liked lots of series - but probably the Baby-Sitters Club books were my favorite for the longest.
Now: Probably Harry Potter - though I'd read the Narnia books a lot more if I could find a set that's in the right order to own.
4) Character you would most like to meet
Oh, that's hard!!! Aslan is a great choice, I think I'll go with that.
5) Last childhood book you re-read (for yourself or to someone)
From my own childhood? Hmm. Either Little Women or A Swiftly Tilting Planet - those are the two I have here from my childhood. I've read Harry Potters more recently, but obviously those aren't from my childhood.
We had a series of very, very short stories, teaching kids to read, where most of the words in each book had the same vowel sounds: so there was one about a cat that had the short a (Bad Max? Max the Cat?), etc. I remember one with a race car, and one with bubble gum, etc. I came across them a couple of years ago, packed away in a box from years ago. We probably put them away twenty or more years ago now, after my little brother learned to read (yeah, we were early readers).
2) Picture Book you would like to climb into
The Maggie B. It's about a little girl (I think she's actually only about three) who dreams that she has a ship of her own, with her baby brother James, and she takes care of the ship, and cooks them meals, and bathes him, and manages it during a storm, and all sorts of things, all by herself. It was probably my very favorite picture book, and I'd still love to be Maggie.
3) Favorite series of books (then or now)
Then: I liked lots of series - but probably the Baby-Sitters Club books were my favorite for the longest.
Now: Probably Harry Potter - though I'd read the Narnia books a lot more if I could find a set that's in the right order to own.
4) Character you would most like to meet
Oh, that's hard!!! Aslan is a great choice, I think I'll go with that.
5) Last childhood book you re-read (for yourself or to someone)
From my own childhood? Hmm. Either Little Women or A Swiftly Tilting Planet - those are the two I have here from my childhood. I've read Harry Potters more recently, but obviously those aren't from my childhood.
Good post for a Friday
Elvish
To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?
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My mother would be so pleased, and not at all surprised.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Interesting juxtaposition (sorry, seniors)
On Tripp's blog today, from Fast Company:
On Ryan's blog today, from his sermon this morning:
In their endless rush to embrace the next big thing, too many businesses have forgotten what they are and what they really do. The fashionable compulsion to break with the past has, bizarrely, come to mean abandoning the true value they once offered customers.
On Ryan's blog today, from his sermon this morning:
The Kingdom of Heaven is like a third year seminarian who spends thousands of dollars and countless hours learning how to disbelieve the Bible, only to realize late in the game that he had inadvertently forgotten the premise: that it is the Word of God and that it is true!
Insert cliche here
Good: My copy of A Light Blazes in the Darkness came today. I was afraid it might not come because I got a less-than-helpful email from Lulu saying "Oh my! There's a problem with your order. We'll refund or change it." and I didn't really know what that meant. But it came today! Yay!
Bad: My ethics paper is still no closer to being done than when I went to bed on Sunday. I took Monday off to do Greek and yesterday had a four hour rehearsal for Major Barbara before coming home and finishing the Greek, and so it's still just there. I really wish it were actually due tomorrow so that I'd finish it then. I'm going to try to convince my brain that there really is a deadline coming up and I need to finish it, but I work very poorly when I'm not writing against a moderately pressing deadline. At this point, though, I just need to get it done - or at least drafted, so I can start treating it as a writing piece and not a thinking piece (not that writing isn't thinking, but you know what I mean).
Ugly: I don't know whether it's pre-Thanksgiving blues, hormones, weather, plunge readjustment, or what, but I've been extremely moody since I got back from plunge, and it's driving me batty. Ugh.
Bad: My ethics paper is still no closer to being done than when I went to bed on Sunday. I took Monday off to do Greek and yesterday had a four hour rehearsal for Major Barbara before coming home and finishing the Greek, and so it's still just there. I really wish it were actually due tomorrow so that I'd finish it then. I'm going to try to convince my brain that there really is a deadline coming up and I need to finish it, but I work very poorly when I'm not writing against a moderately pressing deadline. At this point, though, I just need to get it done - or at least drafted, so I can start treating it as a writing piece and not a thinking piece (not that writing isn't thinking, but you know what I mean).
Ugly: I don't know whether it's pre-Thanksgiving blues, hormones, weather, plunge readjustment, or what, but I've been extremely moody since I got back from plunge, and it's driving me batty. Ugh.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Major Barbara
As previously advertised: The Ethics I class will present a semi-staged reading of Shaw's Major Barbara. The performance will occur two weeks from today, on November the 29th, 7 pm, in Seabury Lounge. It's on the long side, but there will indeed be an intermission between the second and third acts. We had our "dress" rehearsal tonight, and it looks like it will be a lot of fun - my fellow actors are hilarious.
The link
Apparently I am not the last person in the world to get around to playing with the Presbyterian Bible exams. Two fellow students asked me today to post the link for their quizzing enjoyment, so here it is:
Bible Content Exams
Enjoy!
Bible Content Exams
Enjoy!
Monday, November 14, 2005
I am victorious!
The damn window that wouldn't shut for two months? I totally just asserted myself and forced it shut, with no damage to either me or the window.
That'll teach it to blow a cold draft on me while I'm trying to do Greek.
Yeah.
That'll teach it to blow a cold draft on me while I'm trying to do Greek.
Yeah.
Yippee!
Our ethics paper deadline has been universally extended to next Tuesday. I'll still want to get most of it done by Thursday, and I'll still need it done before I leave for Ohio, but now I don't have to try and channel Ryan in order to get Greek, ethics, rehearsal, and preaching all done this week.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
I win!
Well, I passed anyway - as a study break, I finally tried out one of the Bible Content Exams that others were playing with while I was on plunge. Overall I managed a 90% on the 2005 exam - which I think is not bad for an Episcopalian, especially one who hasn't taken NT II yet.
The breakdown indicates that I know the things I know (Gospels, Psalms and Wisdom Literature, pretty high on Pentateuch) and I don't know the things I don't know (Pauline Letters and Minor Prophets). Go figure. It's nice to know that most of my weaker areas are the ones I haven't studied yet (Pauline Letters and Rest of the New Testament, although I do seem to know a little about the first half of Galatians :) ).
And now, back to the ethics of antiracism and good-guest-ness (really, is there an actual word for that?).
The breakdown indicates that I know the things I know (Gospels, Psalms and Wisdom Literature, pretty high on Pentateuch) and I don't know the things I don't know (Pauline Letters and Minor Prophets). Go figure. It's nice to know that most of my weaker areas are the ones I haven't studied yet (Pauline Letters and Rest of the New Testament, although I do seem to know a little about the first half of Galatians :) ).
And now, back to the ethics of antiracism and good-guest-ness (really, is there an actual word for that?).
So there
I hate that my old files are all on floppy disks. I didn't like floppies when I was using Windows (for that matter, I didn't much like Windows either), but they were the most useful way to switch around between computers that might or might not have internet or CD-writing drives. Now I just hate having all my old stuff on them. I don't want to go to the bother of going down to the lab to see if maybe something I wrote a couple of years ago might be helpful, and I don't want to go to the bother of transferring all my stuff to my iBook (which is why I haven't done it yet).
Friday, November 11, 2005
Hospitality
Does the idea of hospitality cover appropriate behaviors/attitudes for the guest, or only for the host?
If only for the host, where (theologically/ethically, not in terms of plain etiquette) does good-guest-ness fall?
If only for the host, where (theologically/ethically, not in terms of plain etiquette) does good-guest-ness fall?
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Beth, Beth, and Derrick Go Home
We're back safely. I'd love to make the last chapter of this non-existent children's book more momentous and descriptive than this, but right now I'm looking at a shower and bed. Classes resume at 9 am tomorrow, matins at 8:30. (yay! matins!)
Monday, November 07, 2005
Beth, Beth, and Derrick Go To Yellowstone Drug
Yes, gentle readers, it's true. We made it to Yellowstone Drug while they were open, and I do believe theirs likely are the best milkshakes in Wyoming. We've also got pictures and such to document the event.
Today we had a lazy morning, sleeping in, hanging out, and getting ready for the "ecumenical" preachers' group to come over for text study. The text study was moderately interesting, and afterward we listened to Luke Timothy Johnson talk about the gnostic infancy gospels, which was also moderately interesting. He didn't actually so much talk about them as describe their contents, actually.
In the afternoon, we took a lovely hike up Sinks Canyon to the falls. (Ryan, I think I saw where you stayed on our drive up there.) It would really have been a lovelier hike if the moleskin on my heels weren't totally ineffective, but it was still pretty. I think I may have to give in and buy new hiking boots. It's a shame, because I love these and the shoe itself is still in good shape, but I've tried various combinations of moleskin and insoles and nothing is helping. Anyway, Beth took lots of pictures, and the way back down was less painful. We came back and Tommy showed us a decent little Chinese restaurant in town, which was moderately impressive. (Yes, it's been a moderate sort of day.)
Tomorrow is our last real day here. We're planning to take lunches out to the nearby ghost town in the morning and then head to a hidden site of petroglyphs. We'll have dinner with Bob and Pat and then head back to pack - because Wednesday, it's back to Evanston!
Today we had a lazy morning, sleeping in, hanging out, and getting ready for the "ecumenical" preachers' group to come over for text study. The text study was moderately interesting, and afterward we listened to Luke Timothy Johnson talk about the gnostic infancy gospels, which was also moderately interesting. He didn't actually so much talk about them as describe their contents, actually.
In the afternoon, we took a lovely hike up Sinks Canyon to the falls. (Ryan, I think I saw where you stayed on our drive up there.) It would really have been a lovelier hike if the moleskin on my heels weren't totally ineffective, but it was still pretty. I think I may have to give in and buy new hiking boots. It's a shame, because I love these and the shoe itself is still in good shape, but I've tried various combinations of moleskin and insoles and nothing is helping. Anyway, Beth took lots of pictures, and the way back down was less painful. We came back and Tommy showed us a decent little Chinese restaurant in town, which was moderately impressive. (Yes, it's been a moderate sort of day.)
Tomorrow is our last real day here. We're planning to take lunches out to the nearby ghost town in the morning and then head to a hidden site of petroglyphs. We'll have dinner with Bob and Pat and then head back to pack - because Wednesday, it's back to Evanston!
Saturday, November 05, 2005
we interrupt this non-existent children's book...
After catching up on several blogs tonight (our host for the night has internet and went to bed early), I'd just like to note that I move we OFFICIALLY cancel November 3 next year, for everyone. Or maybe the whole first week of November. Grump.
And now, to bed. Back online someday.
And now, to bed. Back online someday.
Beth, Beth, and Derrick Go To The Reservation
Well, yesterday was our trip to the Wind River Indian Reservation. It was an interesting experience. Our stops were limited to the Arapahoe Episcopal Church, the Shoshone Episcopal Church, the RC mission (which I think is on the Arapahoe side), and a trading post/gift shop. Oh, and the cemetery where Chief Washakie is buried, and the one where Sacajawea may very well be buried, depending on which story you believe. (If you believe the Episcopalians, the Rev. John Roberts did Sacajawea's burial in that graveyard.) They were lovely stops, and we drove through a good part of the reservation to get around to them all, but it was much more a tour of "what the white man does on the reservation" than the reservation itself. That's not really surprising, given that our guide was a white Episcopal priest who has very little to do with the reservation (I think actually we wouldn't have seen even the Episcopal churches there if we hadn't asked to visit the reservation). But it was certainly a very specific view of it, and one well in tune with the way Lander folk generally talk about reservation folk. There's a great deal of racism here, and while people I've talked to all seem to know it's there, most don't seem to understand their own role and complicity in that racism. (In other words, good liberal stock seem to be the same no matter where you go.)
It was also interesting, though, to see the differences between the two Episcopal churches. The church at Ft Washakie, on the Shoshone side, is very much straight prayer book, Anglo worship style. Their church building looks like many other western churches inside and out and they seem to use only the standard Episcopal liturgical resources. Our Father's House at Ethete, on the Arapahoe side, is almost the opposite. It's certainly an Episcopal church as well, but the inculturation is very different. The altar they use is a large drum-style altar, with an eagle feather on it for the epiclesis. It sits on a round, raised about a foot, and covered in what looks like a hooked-rug, quartered into four colored sections - yellow at liturgical north, red at liturgical east, blue at liturgical west, and black at liturgical south. Their music is much more varied - Hymnal 1940, praise music, chant, etc. and I think their liturgies themselves are somewhat varied as well, though I don't know.
Beth needs to check email as well before dinner, so here's the short version of the rest: Took our three hosts to dinner last night. Drove to Thermopolis this morning, stopping to see the world's largest hot spring before meeting with the rector of the Thermopolis/Worland churches, who are moving in the general direction of mutual ministry. Drove to Meeteetse for lunch, where we bumped into the local priest there. Drove to Powell for a 2 pm meeting with some of their congregation, including their local transitional deacon and their ministry developer, Ron. Beth and I are staying with Ron tonight and will go to the 9 am service 50 miles out in Basin and then the 11 am service 50 miles from there in Meeteetse (I think all those e's are in the right places). Derrick and Bob will stay with the Powell senior warden and go to church there tomorrow morning. We'll all meet up again to meet with the Cody local priest at her house tomorrow afternoon. Then we'll drive back to Lander, hitting Shoshoni on the way for Yellowstone Drug, home of the best milkshake in Wyoming (or so we're told!). Tommy, our house host, is cooking dinner for the six of us tomorrow nights. We're hoping he remembers only to put on five steaks.
After that, we have a slow last couple of days - or at least, we've got nothing concretely planned yet except a Monday morning ecumenical text study. Don't know when I'll be back online, but I'll be back at O'Hare in exactly four days now.
It was also interesting, though, to see the differences between the two Episcopal churches. The church at Ft Washakie, on the Shoshone side, is very much straight prayer book, Anglo worship style. Their church building looks like many other western churches inside and out and they seem to use only the standard Episcopal liturgical resources. Our Father's House at Ethete, on the Arapahoe side, is almost the opposite. It's certainly an Episcopal church as well, but the inculturation is very different. The altar they use is a large drum-style altar, with an eagle feather on it for the epiclesis. It sits on a round, raised about a foot, and covered in what looks like a hooked-rug, quartered into four colored sections - yellow at liturgical north, red at liturgical east, blue at liturgical west, and black at liturgical south. Their music is much more varied - Hymnal 1940, praise music, chant, etc. and I think their liturgies themselves are somewhat varied as well, though I don't know.
Beth needs to check email as well before dinner, so here's the short version of the rest: Took our three hosts to dinner last night. Drove to Thermopolis this morning, stopping to see the world's largest hot spring before meeting with the rector of the Thermopolis/Worland churches, who are moving in the general direction of mutual ministry. Drove to Meeteetse for lunch, where we bumped into the local priest there. Drove to Powell for a 2 pm meeting with some of their congregation, including their local transitional deacon and their ministry developer, Ron. Beth and I are staying with Ron tonight and will go to the 9 am service 50 miles out in Basin and then the 11 am service 50 miles from there in Meeteetse (I think all those e's are in the right places). Derrick and Bob will stay with the Powell senior warden and go to church there tomorrow morning. We'll all meet up again to meet with the Cody local priest at her house tomorrow afternoon. Then we'll drive back to Lander, hitting Shoshoni on the way for Yellowstone Drug, home of the best milkshake in Wyoming (or so we're told!). Tommy, our house host, is cooking dinner for the six of us tomorrow nights. We're hoping he remembers only to put on five steaks.
After that, we have a slow last couple of days - or at least, we've got nothing concretely planned yet except a Monday morning ecumenical text study. Don't know when I'll be back online, but I'll be back at O'Hare in exactly four days now.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Beth, Beth, and Derrick Go To Town
Well, I had thought that today and yesterday were to be very busy days. I was wrong about that - but pleasantly so.
Yesterday, we finished off the ministry developers' meeting, and then firmly resisted doing any more sightseeing that day. Instead, we took naps and then walked into town all by ourselves like big girls and boys. We poked into some shops - I bought a new hat at the outdoor shop - and found a pizza place for dinner, with delicious sundried tomato and artichoke pesto pizza. When we came home, we finally met the man in whose house we're staying, and he is wonderful.
Today we had a couple of meetings and a tour of NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School). Temptation, temptation. This afternoon we were free again and headed back into town, finding some jerky for Mitch and a cute eclectic tea-and-Christian-books store for us.
Now, it's soup and bread and off to meet with the Lander worship committee. More as I can.
Yesterday, we finished off the ministry developers' meeting, and then firmly resisted doing any more sightseeing that day. Instead, we took naps and then walked into town all by ourselves like big girls and boys. We poked into some shops - I bought a new hat at the outdoor shop - and found a pizza place for dinner, with delicious sundried tomato and artichoke pesto pizza. When we came home, we finally met the man in whose house we're staying, and he is wonderful.
Today we had a couple of meetings and a tour of NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School). Temptation, temptation. This afternoon we were free again and headed back into town, finding some jerky for Mitch and a cute eclectic tea-and-Christian-books store for us.
Now, it's soup and bread and off to meet with the Lander worship committee. More as I can.
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Beth, Beth, and Derrick Get Their Heads Spun Around
... but may have them put back on again.
Yesterday, as advertised, Beth, Beth, and Derrick met with a ministry developer and a local deacon, drove back from Evanston to Lander, and went to a party. Some of what we heard yesterday turned us around but good - if you're actually interested in knowing more about that, I can tell you later. Certainly we're all pondering the nature of the priesthood anew. We did not stop for the best milkshake in Wyoming - I conflated two places. We stopped in Forsin for World Famous Ice Cream, but they seemed to be closed, at least for the season. The best milkshake in Wyoming is on the way to Powell.
Today, Beth, Beth, and Derrick went to Sinks Canyon and a ministry developers' meeting. Both were fantastic. Sinks Canyon is a place where the river goes down into a hole, then comes back up at the banks half a mile down the road. They haven't yet figured out exactly how it does that - dye tests have proven that it is the same water, but it takes 2 hours for the dye to move that half mile, and more water comes up than goes down, and they don't know why it does that either. It's beautiful, though, and the pool where it comes up (remarkably gently) is a dead end for trout, who just live there then, because you can't fish at that pool. You can, however, feed them pellets, so they're huge fish.
In the afternoon, we had a meeting with (nearly) all the ministry developers in the diocese, along with the diocesan coordinator, the canon/deployment officer, and the bishop. That was a fantastic meeting - it was great to hear about mutual ministry from other people, a couple of whom are actually not men over 60 years old. (There's one woman about 45 and one man about 35.) It also helped me, at least, to reorient myself a little bit and get some better perspective on how mutual ministry works in this diocese. I really appreciated hearing those different viewpoints, and from different people. (And if anyone doubted that the Episcopal Church is small, one of the ministry developers lives in Sundance, and his wife, who has been discerned to be a local priest there, knows my great-aunt from when she lived there.)
Tomorrow, we continue to meet with the ministry developers until noon, and then I think we might actually have the rest of the day free. That implies to me that I might be able to blog tomorrow, though nothing's guaranteed. If not, look forward to hearing about the meeting, a meeting with Lander's senior warden and parish coordinator, a tour of the National Outdoor Leadership School, and a worship committee meeting (yes, Thursday will be a busy day). We're very interested to see what the worship committee meeting will be like - they're supposed to be planning Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany.
Yesterday, as advertised, Beth, Beth, and Derrick met with a ministry developer and a local deacon, drove back from Evanston to Lander, and went to a party. Some of what we heard yesterday turned us around but good - if you're actually interested in knowing more about that, I can tell you later. Certainly we're all pondering the nature of the priesthood anew. We did not stop for the best milkshake in Wyoming - I conflated two places. We stopped in Forsin for World Famous Ice Cream, but they seemed to be closed, at least for the season. The best milkshake in Wyoming is on the way to Powell.
Today, Beth, Beth, and Derrick went to Sinks Canyon and a ministry developers' meeting. Both were fantastic. Sinks Canyon is a place where the river goes down into a hole, then comes back up at the banks half a mile down the road. They haven't yet figured out exactly how it does that - dye tests have proven that it is the same water, but it takes 2 hours for the dye to move that half mile, and more water comes up than goes down, and they don't know why it does that either. It's beautiful, though, and the pool where it comes up (remarkably gently) is a dead end for trout, who just live there then, because you can't fish at that pool. You can, however, feed them pellets, so they're huge fish.
In the afternoon, we had a meeting with (nearly) all the ministry developers in the diocese, along with the diocesan coordinator, the canon/deployment officer, and the bishop. That was a fantastic meeting - it was great to hear about mutual ministry from other people, a couple of whom are actually not men over 60 years old. (There's one woman about 45 and one man about 35.) It also helped me, at least, to reorient myself a little bit and get some better perspective on how mutual ministry works in this diocese. I really appreciated hearing those different viewpoints, and from different people. (And if anyone doubted that the Episcopal Church is small, one of the ministry developers lives in Sundance, and his wife, who has been discerned to be a local priest there, knows my great-aunt from when she lived there.)
Tomorrow, we continue to meet with the ministry developers until noon, and then I think we might actually have the rest of the day free. That implies to me that I might be able to blog tomorrow, though nothing's guaranteed. If not, look forward to hearing about the meeting, a meeting with Lander's senior warden and parish coordinator, a tour of the National Outdoor Leadership School, and a worship committee meeting (yes, Thursday will be a busy day). We're very interested to see what the worship committee meeting will be like - they're supposed to be planning Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany.
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