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i should be in bed
but instead i will do the silly thing and then a little update
botany - i was a bio major because i thought i was pre-med, then i had the most amazing professor ever, dave. he taught botany - which i thought i would hate - but he is one of those professors that loves what he teaches SO much that it is completely contagious. and i fell in love with botany. i am such a plant geek... when i am walking around my neighborhood in berkeley or hiking or anywhere i stop to look at plants and tell people the scientific names for the ones i can remember! my favorite plants: mariposa lilies (wild flowers found in glacier nat'l park), maidenhair ferns (adiantum) and huge cedar trees in the temperate rain forests in washington state (thuja)
damien jurado - musician. very sincere and beautiful music. his music got me through some long lonely days in guatemala.
guacamole - made with fresh lime juice, lots of garlic, jalapenos, fresh cilantro, salt and pepper, cumin and coriander... perfect.
lilies - my favorite flowers - the wild ones are best
nosepet - this is the name we gave our intern house (10 of us working and living together) in washington d.c. - it actually spelled our phone number. we made funny t-shirts of a diagram showing a finger petting a nose. well, maybe they were just funny to us.
r.e.m. - i kind of rediscovered r.e.m. two years ago - i am a little behind times... but i absolutely love them. my most favoritest song is nightswimming.
stanley hauerwas - a theologian i really like. i attended a day long seminar on christian pacifism that he led and i was completely convinced - he is compelling, a realist, logical and hilarious. if you ever have a chance to hear him speak i insist that you go.
wendell berry - writer, essayist, poet, farmer, activist - his poem has become a personal manifesto "manifesto: the mad farmer liberation front" he writes on local sustainable agriculture and civil society and also writes novels. he lives on a farm in kentucky and types on an old typewriter. he is my hero.
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ok, that was fun and silly.
my classes started this week. i think i will start a different lj to process my thoughts on my classes so only people interested in it have to read it! but i don't know what to call it yet. i am so un-clever. anybody have any ideas? something to do with ethics/social justice/religion/theology/seminary? let me know if you do...
i am really excited about my classes.
ecofeminist theology and philosophy
sociology of religion
church history to 1400
theories of justice
it is great to finally start as i have been talking about this and moved here 6 months ago. it feels weird to be a student again. oh the lack of discipline! must study and read more already. it is an interesting atmosphere - one of my classes had people from 10 different countries and more than 9 different denominations... lots of older people coming back to school - some as second and third careers. lots of life experience! my theories of justice class is a doctoral and advanced masters level course so i feel a bit out of my element, but i think it will be good to push me to work harder and read some challenging stuff... other than that it is also a huge change from my undergrad which was a bio major and i had classes 3/4 days a week and labs and tests about every other week! now i have 2 or 3 very short papers and a final in 2 classes, one 5 pg paper and one 15 pg paper in another class, and leading a class discussion plus a 10-15 page paper in the last class. that doesn't seem like much after taking chem tests every other week, bio tests the other weeks. but wrapping my mind around some of the readings will be harder than memorizing lifecycles of lycopodia. ; )
but instead i will do the silly thing and then a little update
botany - i was a bio major because i thought i was pre-med, then i had the most amazing professor ever, dave. he taught botany - which i thought i would hate - but he is one of those professors that loves what he teaches SO much that it is completely contagious. and i fell in love with botany. i am such a plant geek... when i am walking around my neighborhood in berkeley or hiking or anywhere i stop to look at plants and tell people the scientific names for the ones i can remember! my favorite plants: mariposa lilies (wild flowers found in glacier nat'l park), maidenhair ferns (adiantum) and huge cedar trees in the temperate rain forests in washington state (thuja)
damien jurado - musician. very sincere and beautiful music. his music got me through some long lonely days in guatemala.
guacamole - made with fresh lime juice, lots of garlic, jalapenos, fresh cilantro, salt and pepper, cumin and coriander... perfect.
lilies - my favorite flowers - the wild ones are best
nosepet - this is the name we gave our intern house (10 of us working and living together) in washington d.c. - it actually spelled our phone number. we made funny t-shirts of a diagram showing a finger petting a nose. well, maybe they were just funny to us.
r.e.m. - i kind of rediscovered r.e.m. two years ago - i am a little behind times... but i absolutely love them. my most favoritest song is nightswimming.
stanley hauerwas - a theologian i really like. i attended a day long seminar on christian pacifism that he led and i was completely convinced - he is compelling, a realist, logical and hilarious. if you ever have a chance to hear him speak i insist that you go.
wendell berry - writer, essayist, poet, farmer, activist - his poem has become a personal manifesto "manifesto: the mad farmer liberation front" he writes on local sustainable agriculture and civil society and also writes novels. he lives on a farm in kentucky and types on an old typewriter. he is my hero.
...........
ok, that was fun and silly.
my classes started this week. i think i will start a different lj to process my thoughts on my classes so only people interested in it have to read it! but i don't know what to call it yet. i am so un-clever. anybody have any ideas? something to do with ethics/social justice/religion/theology/seminary? let me know if you do...
i am really excited about my classes.
ecofeminist theology and philosophy
sociology of religion
church history to 1400
theories of justice
it is great to finally start as i have been talking about this and moved here 6 months ago. it feels weird to be a student again. oh the lack of discipline! must study and read more already. it is an interesting atmosphere - one of my classes had people from 10 different countries and more than 9 different denominations... lots of older people coming back to school - some as second and third careers. lots of life experience! my theories of justice class is a doctoral and advanced masters level course so i feel a bit out of my element, but i think it will be good to push me to work harder and read some challenging stuff... other than that it is also a huge change from my undergrad which was a bio major and i had classes 3/4 days a week and labs and tests about every other week! now i have 2 or 3 very short papers and a final in 2 classes, one 5 pg paper and one 15 pg paper in another class, and leading a class discussion plus a 10-15 page paper in the last class. that doesn't seem like much after taking chem tests every other week, bio tests the other weeks. but wrapping my mind around some of the readings will be harder than memorizing lifecycles of lycopodia. ; )