last week was a great break. my drive ended up being ten hours each way, i had car problems and worried that i wouldn't make it at all, i felt old, and i didn't like a lot of the music. but it was still just what i needed ( Read more... )

wow. busy busy busy. i'm taking this christmas eve morning and afternoon to catch up on things like email and --hold on, going out to eat. will finish later--

( talkin about gifts from chinese students )

whee! 12 days till christmas. i don't know if i'll be able to cram in all the stuff i want to tell my students about christmas in that amount of time, especially the way i have things planned out. i'm teaching them the true meaning of christmas, if you will. so we're starting at the beginning. i've picked 11 really commonly known bible stories, ( Read more... )

this post is really cool.

oh, friends. what a weekend i've had. for real. i don't know if it was all-around the most fun year of sonshine, but it certainly had the most excitement for me:) can i tell you all about it?


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just out of curiosity...

Poll christian music

so i was going to write a post this morning (a rare [albeit timid] rant even) on christian music and pop christianity. then i was in such a distracted mood after driving home from work through big floating snowflakes that i put it off (i've been putting this post off for several months at this point ( Read more... )

( i hadn't done one in a while, and... and... i was curious )

just a note to say, last night, i fell in love with nick hornby. utterly. all i read by him was a short story, with the unlikely name of "nipplejesus," but man alive, was that ever a great story. highly recommended, friends. very thought-provoking. i suppose i'll have to look into reading some of his novels now...

in other news, ( i'm feeling abstract and pointless )

it's blue outside. there's nothing more breathtaking than dusk on a cloudy winter day. everything is blue and brown... makes me wish i were a poet ( Read more... )