that crazy trip thing i did
So, Wednesday i left for Virginia. Pretty uneventful. Yay for etickets 'cause i get to just swipe my credit card in an express terminal and it gives me my boarding pass(es). Sarah had said "the airport is tiny and it won't be hard to find each other." She wasn't wrong about the latter, but i wouldn't exactly call Roanoke tiny, though it's
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Word to Ari about how it's easier to deal with really extroverted people sometimes. I didn't really anticipate having that much trouble coming up with topics of conversation, and I do know I could've tried harder myself to initiate things...sigh. Sorry. I really did have fun, though.
I'm glad you liked my pretty campus :) I've just now read the Carol Zalesky article--it's neat. Although I suppose I'm having my own "Catholics != Christians" moment, because as much as I can appreciate the "christological poetics" of it, I find myself annoyed by the arbitrariness of the church calendar in general (Dec. 25 is random enough, and it's just silly to stick the Annunciation precisely nine months before it--but I'm being a jerk who thinks she can be a Church unto herself, as usual).
I restrained myself from saying anything along the lines of "Think i'll keep my sex vanilla." That was smart. But heehee :)
Yeah, way to pick the one chapter in Richard Foster's Prayer that I figured you'd have a problem with. ;) Why am I not surprised. I should've pointed out chapters I thought you'd like (of which I'm sure there were several). That was one bit I was kind of "eh?" about myself, actually.
Don't worry about the independent study meeting. I didn't feel as well-prepared as I normally am (was too sleepy the night before to make an outline of talking points as I normally do), so I was actually glad you were there to say stuff, and it was the kind of discussion where I get kind of internally growly and all, "I don't know what to say now, but, by golly, I'll be spouting well-thought-out responses...any minute now! ...Or, okay, later, but just you wait!" Actually, I've finished reading Johnson and Borg already (hee) and am planning an extensive LJ post/e-mail to Jan, so more fun will be had by all. :)
I really did enjoy having you, for all the conversations-that-weren't, and I'm glad you felt the trip was worth your while. Yay.
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:) Glad you like. They come from here.
I definitely read the Zaleski article with "Okay, this is a crazy Catholic thing" kind of in my head at all times, 'cause i'm not into the whole feast day thing (not having grown up Catholic) and am not all that into Mary generally. I feel kind of dumb that i didn't realize until you wrote it that the date is 9 months before Christmas.
"but I'm being a jerk who thinks she can be a Church unto herself, as usual"
Like i don't do that? ;) (I really like that phrasing, btw -- "thinks she can be a Church unto herself")
I'm glad you didn't feel like i took over your Independent Study session, and i much look forward to your post. (Can i have Jan's e-mail address, btw? Thanks.)
The Radical Prayer chapter looked the most interesting/appealling out of the whole table of contents, but apparently i have a gift for finding that which will rub me the wrong way :)
I'm glad you enjoyed having me, despite all the conversations-that-weren't (again, yay phraseology) and everything.
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