From an email that Shirin sent to the rest of the team, plus coaches ( Read more... )

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth... And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace."

John 1:14-16, as chosen by a dear friend who included this verse in her Christmas message :)

dear skin (specifically, the one on my face ( Read more... )

if you're wondering, i've been in phuket, hence the long absence. pictures will come later. :) i've also been running around trying to meet people, buy winter clothes, and do a bit of training before i head off to world's in canada. so it's been busy ( Read more... )

the past few days have been so filled with good food, i sincerely am fearing for my stomach. i hope it hasn't gotten too used to the current volume and richness of food, or else i may start expanding. first there was lunch at au petit salut, courtesy of schizophoenix. i had the baked burgundy snails with tomato and garlic butter, pan-seared beef, which was ( Read more... )

it's not even november, and i saw this in orchard two days ago:


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one more paper! one more paper! one more paper ( Read more... )

or have been back for the past three days, actually. having once again become the resident druggie (four prescriptions! that's a record for me), updating has been the last priority ( Read more... )

Mary did you know ( Read more... )