This Classical Life

eating black bean and corn quesadillas
folding too much laundry
grading too many papers
listening to Sufjan on the ipod, it’s just been a Sufjan day
playing Scrabulous on facebook
reading the same book all month
watching Sex & the City on DVD

We did lose a day or two worth of comments with our server move. Our apologies!

Our host migrated servers and apparently, we were the only ones who had direct admin issues. But we’re back now. You didn’t miss much. I have been teaching classes, grading papers, and chasing toddlers, you know, the usual. And we are eagerly awaiting a visit from Nana and GP. Hopefully I’ll find some time to post about the cool things I’ve been thinking about in the midst of hugging the hysterical, driving all over town, and snatching boogies from little noses.

but I was really struck today that I have a long way to go. Even if I do care about what happens to people around the world, stupid people get me a lot more riled up than injustice does.

I met a girl seven years ago this week and she told me that she was going to marry this one guy, who was in med school, and they were going to be a doctor-nurse missions team in Africa. I thought, “Yeah, right. No one has their life that planned at eighteen.” Two days ago, they arrived in Mali with their two sons.

I hope someday I do care more about the poor and oppressed than I do about the obnoxious.

I am pretty worn out, and knowing that someone, anyone, wants to read something really helps me to make posts.

Rate one or more of these in order of your interest:
- A recipe: Mom’s Broccoli Salad OR Kristen’s Baked Ziti
- Appendectomy, revisited (Health Care = Messed Up)
- Interesting things I’ve heard in the news lately
- Starbucks & Community
- Wendell Berry, Urban Life, and Other Jumbled thoughts

I am sure I will also take some pictures to post, because I am addicted to photography.