I'm awake! I almost have no voice! Of course, do I really need my voice? At lunch I can just let the friend I'm meeting talk, at work the customers always seem to have something to say, in class Dr. E needs no input from me to keep moving, and at the party tonight I can just dance like mad ( Read more... )

I'm on my way to bed (I promise!), but in checking my e-mail and friends' posts I ran into a website about the recent kafuffle at SAU and have found myself still unable to understand the reasons behind it. (My apologies to any readers not from SAU - this'll probably be a confusing post to you ( Read more... )

I'm getting sick :-(. I want to sleep extra tonight, but I have to clean my room for Father to come and bless it tomorrow. (Thank God I'm not Eastern European and in possession of a house - I get the impression they do a rather thorough cleaning plus lots of baking for the priest's visit :-/. Nice if you're the priest, a lot of work if you're not ( Read more... )

A friend of mine from the Russian Studies Program just told me that she found a song we'd seen in Russia and found hilarious, and after watching its music video I went on to look for and find the music video for "Невозможное возможно," another I first saw in Russia. What surprised me about its effect on me was how powerful it was, partly because of ( Read more... )

I'm sick, and I don't understand why I've gotten sicker in the USA than anywhere else. I can understand the whole exposure factor being heightened here in the dorms, but I lived in dorms in Kenya, and I just don't see how using public transport in Russia, Ethiopia, and Kenya wouldn't expose to worse stuff than what I manage to catch here ( Read more... )

I'm continually amazed by how the Lord speaks to me through something as short and simple as the daily readings. We're still celebrating the Nativity and today's readings were from James 1:1-18 and Mark 10:11-16. They're only vaguely in my mind now, but they were perfect for where I was today ( Read more... )