January 2009
19 posts
Pastor Lady: You’re a strange couple.
D: Um, yeah?
Jube: (!@#$%!$)
Pastor Lady: Well, you’re a Lutheran (with a french last name), and you’re a mennonite who goes to a Methodist church, and you’re getting married in an Anglican church. Hey?
D: I guess so?
Later:
Jube: We’re strange because we’re not two kids of the same backround and we don’t fit...
Reason number 24 I need to go to a school that...
The demand for humanities PhDs has long been tight — for four decades, the number of jobs requiring them hasn’t kept pace with the number of people earning them. But by all indications, recent university hiring freezes and evaporating grant money have reduced the world’s most elite degree to junk-bond status. “Every single academic, especially in the humanities, has a tinge of buyer’s...
Largehearted Boy: Bloggers To Read in 2009 →
I need to go through this, one link at a time.
I bought my dress! It was an impulse buy! I almost already forget what it looks like!
I got a chemical peel and my face didn't fall off.
At the lame bridal spectacular I won 10% of flowers from some place I’ve never heard off, a free flower arrangment, and a free chemical peel (worth $100). It’s diffenetly not something I would normally do (a bit out of my price-range). But free is awesome!!
They just put some harsh chemicals on my face and then the lady fanned me for 5 minutes. Then she put aloe vera on. I’m...
Finished the new book club selection, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, in three hours. It was a quick read. I feel like anybody and everybody can write a memoir about how their parents screwed them up, but how they still love them. (Not that my parents screwed up with me—!) These children had a bit more adventurous childhood as they were very poor as neither parent could hold down a...
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/07/28/... →
15 reasons why Mr. Rogers was and continues to be awesome, as an advocate for equality, television, and children. Although he has past, he brought a smile to my face today.
Who Changes the Kissing Rules? - Freakonomics Blog... →
I think about this all the time at the new in-laws house. They kiss family members of the opposite sex. Grandma Nannie kisses everyone on the lips with her hot pink lipstick. I find that icky. I’m working on it.
I paid the entrance fee for Trinity Western University. Declared that for the next two years I would live off campus, I would use public transport, I will not use profane language, I will not get drunk, and I will not get divorced.
TWU has high expectations of me. I hope I can live up to this.
As stressful as planning a wedding, so to is moving across the country. And to risk another...
Some of the most anticipated books of 2009 →
I finished Catch-22. I am trying to form some thoughts on it. Everyone tells me it is a really good book.
Now reading Blindness by Jose Saramago. I am so engrossed I can’t put it down. It is a horrifing look at a debased moral world. If everyone is blind and no one can see how you or any one else is behaving, how does society adapt? Can it adapt? In a crisis, do we lose our moral...
