Following up on Wednesday, Jeff M. preached this morning. He mentioned that while we in the West talk about "Doubting Thomas," in the Eastern Church he is "Saint Thomas the Believer ( Read more... )

Shoshana hosted Silly Games Night at her house last night.  While I was there, my housemate texted me on her way to check out the Honk! Festival.  Shoshana was kind of horrified that I hadn't invited my housemate to the party.  Oops :/

People were playing Dixit when I got there.  Despite it being billed to me as "like Apples to Apples," I was ( Read more... )

A friend had a retro sleepover this holiday weekend. We watched Real Genius (carlyinrome, as soon as it was mentioned that this movie contains young!ValKilmer, I thought of you) and Labyrinth and played Never Have I Ever. I was expecting everyone to play R+ rated, so I was surprised to actually have fingers down -- though of course one of the challenges of ( Read more... )

I think Apples to Apples: Bible Edition is more fun for all involved if people don't retain total secrecy around their cards -- if you can say, "How is this related to the Bible?" or "What the heck does this pull-quote* mean?" and have the gathered community help you out.
* I learned the new-to-me phrase "flavor text" for the tidbits at the bottom ( Read more... )

Apples to Apples: Bible Edition
Wed. Dec. 29: beginning ~8pmHaving learned that a Bible Edition of Apples to Apples exists, I had to get myself a copy.  I make no promises about the game itself (this will be the first time I play it), but I can promise the presence of myself and my bff and an Internet and a host of books, so good times should be ( Read more... )

Meh.  Don't want to process, just want to talk to the people in question, but that's not feasible.  I disapprove.

I find it interesting that my reaction to having "compassion fatigue" is to want to hear about more people's lives rather than to want to talk about my own -- though I suppose it makes sense since I don't want to rehash the "Well, what ( Read more... )

( gym: Wed-Fri )

Change and freedom are both excellent rewards for voting, but so is free ice cream.
- ilanabean42

Also: sex toysMy state's gonna go blue as far as the Presidential election, so I want to vote 3rd party (that seems so weird to say given that I have 6 parties to choose from), but I'm really not excited about any of them ( Read more... )

"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."

Yeah, that's about all I got.  I've never been a big movie watcher, and when I do watch movies they're usually contemporary ones, so I have literally never seen Paul Newman in anything ( Read more... )

Advent meditation: Matthew 6:13-16 (from Scripture Readings: Advent to Pentecost, copyright 1989, by the Carmelites of Indianapolis)     Salam did the meditation.  She said, "God wants us to be useful to others and to people around us and to be doers, not talkers.  He wants our love for others to be useful the way salt is useful to the soil and ( Read more... )