I'm in the middle of festivities right now, preparing for what my dad dubs a "grown-up Easter egg hunt" (meaning: in our ginormous backyard, instead of inside the house, to CHALLENGE US) and there is much hilarity going around. As well as food. FOOD ( Read more... )

I have been adventuring lately in the kitchen. The other night I made pizza for the first time and burnt myself and almost killed my parrot (long, hilarious story I could do no justice by recounting) but OH MAN was it a) fun, and b) delicious! Trader Joe's sells pizza dough that everyone raves about, and it turns out there's a good reason. The ( Read more... )

And while I'm sitting here going WHAT HOW, my boss brings me a gift: three little dancing wind-up robots for my desk. Two boys, one girl, to represent our department. Yes, they know me here ( Read more... )

Steering away from the rather painful Monday this is turning into, I had a fabulous Easter weekend with my family. We had a brief visit with my cousins on my dad's side, consumed food of the delicious kind (oh it makes me so hungry just thinking about that ham), and otherwise kicked back for some well-earned rest ( Read more... )

The Coming Evangelical Collapse

This fascinating article has been making a trip around the interwebs lately (I actually first came across it at one of my daily haunts, io9.com - a sci-fi news site; go figure).  I made a couple of hasty replies there from work, because if there's anyone who can't resist a good old-fashioned religious debate, it's ( Read more... )

Last weekend I went on a retreat to Big Bear Lake with my young adults group from church. It was lovely. There was snow! Lots of it! But alas, none actually falling. Just a healthy layer on the ground - I've still never experienced it snowing, or even been in below-freezing temperatures. And every time I go somewhere that usually happens, it ( Read more... )

...because boy, am I feeling fantastic right now! Some dude was handing out free samples of it (by the makers of VitaminWater) and I thought well, what the snap, I'm feeling a little toasted anyway ( Read more... )

It occasionally concerns me that my most significant spiritual mentors are all dead. And that, er... I've never met them ( Read more... )

I am having a tremendously difficult time focusing on Anselm's Cur Deus Homo (fascinating though it is) thanks to a number of trivialities.

(1) Midterm Break is about to hit. I'm hopping on a plane to see kestrel_galien on Wednesday. I want to pack and ponder on questions like, what DVDs am I forgetting? And how am I going to tackle Kris at the baggage ( Read more... )

It feels so good to be back. I'm fairly floating. After the doom and gloom that was last semester (though I kicked trash, grade-wise), it's bizarre to sift through all this free time flooding my schedule. I don't quite know what to do with myself ( Read more... )