As one who works in higher education, my New Year's resolutions usually come in August rather than January. One of my ones for this year is to get back on LJ with some regularity. So here I am, just back from Moscow. I arrived back last night, thankful to have my air conditioning and relatively fresh air to breath. The unusual summer heat and the ( Read more... )

Hey Everyone! Um, so it's been AGES since I even checked in with LJ. Planning to rectify that starting now. I'm in the process of doing a couple studies these days, and I'd like to invite you to participate in one of them (if you fit the criteria for the kind of folks we're looking for) and/or forward the following invite to anyone who might be ( Read more... )

Hey Everyone...

Yup, as usual, long time, no post. Things are going well. I'm enjoying having evenings under my control, now that I have finished my master's in marriage and family counseling. I'm back at Holy Trinity in Chicago, helping with the preschool-first grade Sunday School. Um...pretty much everything else is the same :-p.

Since I now have ( Read more... )

Christ is Risen!

OK, yes, I know it's been FOREVER since I've posted for real, and I will get around to it one of these days. For now, I just wanted to share something weird. I've been spending a fair amount of time on Facebook these days (lotsa cool new memes, etc.), and I am currently picking my 5 favorite baseball players. I knew I had to ( Read more... )

Being at least 25% Welsh, I had to post this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7917558.stm

Through the prayers of St. David, may God grant us all a blessed Great Lent! Forgive me.

Yeah, yeah, I know....I *still* haven't gotten around to a proper post. But this meme is making its way around (thanks, zaika_krasivaia!), and I just had to!

1.) Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2.) Put it on shuffle
3.) Press play
4.) For every question, type the song that's playing
5.) When you go to a new question, press the next button
6 ( Read more... )

Yeah, so one of these days I must do a proper post. But for now, check this out!

Happy 2009, Everyone ( Read more... )

Four of the last seven governors arrested...can your state beat that?

Thanks, jjustj, for pointing me to a personality assessment based on the Five Factor Model. Just to parade my knowledge, I can tell ya it's probably the most well-known model of personality in psychology today. Not sure I'd agree with all the results of this particular assessment, but the general trends are probably fairly accurate. The test creators ( Read more... )