Seriously.
Gross Food:
McSweeney’s, Cracking Me Up:
Strange Compliments I’ve Received Because I’m Not Very Attractive.
STATES I REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE AS MIDWESTERN.
News:
Local -
Trader Joes making itself available to third-ring ‘burbs.
The NYT covers MPLS as a great getaway – for the kiddos.
Greg Boyd article in NYT (local pastor daring to disconnect republican ideals with God)
Not local -
Good news for us worry-wart future mothers: “…newer research suggests a little stress in pregnancy may actually do some good.”
Today in Brady:
brady bunch clip with greg too stoned to act. (Scroll to about 2:25 to see some loosey-goosey posture and goofy grins.) He was always my favorite.
After a few weeks – months? – of the blahs, everything is coming together nicely. Mr. S and I have a super full month in August: 4 weddings (3 in one weekend, and we can’t make 1 because I’m in another at the same time), the sister-in-law in town, a weekend away, our anniversary of meeting each other and celebrated at Bayport Cookery (we might have to trade some new shingles for our dinner; haven’t quite figured out how we’re paying for that yet), and other regular events.
Other good news: my boss is in town this weekend, and over coffee coolers we talked about my position. One-fifth of my job is in area I was not hired for, and have been “trying on” for the last year or so, and I hate it. I really do. I finally told her (in so many words), and she was gracious and open to that. Yay! I also expressed my willingness to do other projects, so hopefully that will pan out. I feel worlds better about my M-F, 8-4 life right now. (Regardless of the fact that my colleague told me today that he noticed that a guy in another dept. comes in half an hour later than he says. i didn’t realize that I sat next to the time police.)
Additionally, I’ve applied to start grad school in the fall at St. Mary’s and I have my “interview” next week. The program coordinator said my application looks great, and the only way I wouldn’t be starting in the fall is if I changed my mind about the whole thing. Yahoo! I’ll be pursuing a MA in Human Development, which, at SMU, is a “make your own” program, so I think I will be studying spiritual and vocation development and their intersections.
Book report: Last weekend I read 2 books worth recommending: Elsewhere, by Gabrielle Zevin, and How Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of christian rock by Andrew Beaujon.
Elsewhere is a YA book and by the same author who wrote Margarettown, the book that bore the reading at our wedding. Elsewhere was sweet, fun, romantic, and mystical. Definitely a good read.
Body Piercing, though…man, I had high hopes. And it about 70% delivered, but it just ran out of steam, not to mention had a whole long chapter on abortion protestors, which seems to me just didn’t fit the rest of the book. There were whole chunks of the book I read out loud to Mr. S, simply because of the clarity with which the non-christian author described the CCM scene. It’s a quick read, though, which makes up for some of the fizzle at the end.
All for now.
