- The Catholic Church is depressing me ( Read more... )

Law school is making me an even worse Catholic than I already was. (or should that be, even worse "Catholic" than I already was... never mind. i'm too tired and brain-dead to deal with my relationship with the Catholic Church-- or lack thereof ( Read more... )

Am back from spending the weekend in Boston for the Asian Pacific American Conference on Law and Public Policy ( Read more... )

Because it's Ash Wednesday ( Read more... )

-A crappy author is being hailed like she's the best thing to hit literature since Shakespeare. A book that's going to break my heart is going to be attacking my eyes and sensibilities, rubbing salt in the wound, every time I go into a bookstore for the foreseeable future, taking away my havens ( Read more... )

Because I suppose I should ( Read more... )

Churches!
Because no trip to Paris (or most European cities) is complete without a church (or two or three...) ;-)
Notre Dame and one of my serendipitous (~_^) finds, St. Etienne du Mont.

( Welcome to the House of God; beware of pickpockets )

1. Have applied for Columbia's housing. And am praying that the online bulletin that is listing nearly all the classes I want to take as being 'not offered in 2005-2006' is wrong. *wibble ( Read more... )

If you're not already sick of hearing reactions to the Cardinals' choice of Ratzinger as Pope...
some more reactions- attempting to be more coherent and more serious.

( Not just for Catholics- but conservatives might want to stay out )

I really am too used to JPII to adjust easily to seeing Ratzinger (i wonder, is it a freudian slip that i've repeatedly misread Ratzinger as Rasputin in the past few days...) in papal robes- my feelings on his election aside. He just looks un-pope-like. And am somewhat amused at his chosen papal name- as the name 'Benedict' doesn't suggest ( Read more... )