It's been a busy couple of weeks.  Unfortunately, none of the busy comes from being employed (okay, so the only unfortunate part of that is the lack of income), and circumstantially speaking, the good news is being a little drowned out by the bad.  But I guess that's the point, isn't it?  Our happiness, in one sense- our contentment, our ( Read more... )

You'd think that my continued unemployment would mean I'd post a little more often. Guess not. Oh, well.

In any case, the theme of this month is apparently weddings.  I had a couple friends get married the first weekend in June, another couple this last weekend, and yet another pair getting hitched on July 2nd.  My girlfriend's brother is getting ( Read more... )

Steven Curtis Chapman is an amazing man.  I mean it.  I came away from his concert this weekend appreciating both his skill as an artist and his deep honesty and humility as a man.

I was moderately familiar with him going in, but what I know, I love- nobody writes a hit Christian pop-rock single quite like he does.  While I was glad he played many ( Read more... )

Been a busy couple of days.  As it's the beginning of the month, there are piles and piles of things to do at work, for once.  Unfortunately, I managed to screw up some of my new duties pretty badly, to the point where the rest of the office had to go back, erase everything I did, and redo it correctly.  To be fair, it wasn't entirely my fault- I ( Read more... )

As I was driving through campus earlier this week, I couldn't help but notice the stands being assembled in Alumni Park in preparation for graduation.  I began to remember the mixture of excitement and terror I felt when that particular omen manifested itself last year.

That's when I realized- I've been out of college for a year.  Which is just ( Read more... )