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Senioritis or something

Working on the final assignments of graduate school is the worst.thing.ever.  It's as if I've literally forgotten how to read and write.  I'm illiterate again - age three.  I'm also obstinate and defiant - either a toddler or an angsty adolescent.  Maybe I'm both right now.  


Whatever the hell age I am or feel, doing this final work feels impossible.

am·biv·a·lent

  [am-biv-uh-luhnt]

adjective

1.

having ”mixed feelings about someone or something; beingunable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action

2.

Psychology . of or pertaining to the coexistence within anindividual of positive and negative feelings toward the sameperson, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or herin opposite directions.

Caught off guard

Sometimes I cry at the strangest things.  Does this happen to you?  I'm usually most caught off guard by commercials that make me tear up - when I notice the welling that starts in my throat and moves all the way up into my sinuses and tear ducts.  The holiday Folgers commercials, commercials for Disney classics that are going into the Disney vault, and most recently, a commercial for the Great Wolf Lodge.  Yes.  I can't cry with my therapist, but I can tear up over the Great Wolf Lodge.  


Go figure.

Comedy

really helps.

The home stretch

I'm finishing an online class at an undisclosed Christian university on the East Coast today (Thank you, God.  Really, thank you).  Then, I have four weeks left until I receive my Masters.  My Masters.  


"Then what?" you ask?


Great question.  

Let me know what you come up with.

Anyone in NC know this guy?

This video of Tommy Jordan, from Albemarle, NC, went viral about a month ago, now with over 31 million views.  Tommy was interviewed by Dr. Phil and Matt Lauer on the Today Show.  In a recent poll conducted to gauge the public's reactions, 72% of people supported Tommy's decision to publicly scorn his daughter and destroy her laptop.  I'm wondering what your thoughts are.  


Also, here is the link to watch the interview with Tommy, his daughter, Hannah Marie, and his wife on the Today Show.

Sabbath Weekend

For months and months, our Sabbath community has been planning a vacation together in order to get away and sabbath.  Finally, last weekend, our dreams came true as we ventured off to a cabin (the same one that T and I went to almost one year ago) in the snow-covered mountains of Cle Elem to rest, play, eat, drink, be merry, and sleep.  That is what we did.  And danced.

Now I'm fighting a cold.

Pickwick

T and I happened upon this musical gift one night when they were giving a free concert in the record store down the street.  Here they are performing a cappella in the Suzzallo Reading Room at the University of Washington (I've read in this room.  It's amazing.)  What's better than interrupting a bunch of college students while they study?  Galen Disston's voice.