I’ve been puzzling about what to blog for the last few days. As I can’t decide, I thought some random bursts of thought might be the best way to get everything out of my head. Enjoy.
We’re filling out our paperwork for Jon’s approval as well as his first call. Right now, we’re looking at (in this order): Region 3 (Minnesota and the Dakotas), Region 1 (Pacific Northwest — my preference though there isn’t an ELCA seminary up there), and Region 6 (Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Michigan) which could easily be replaced with Region 5 (Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the upper peninsula of Michigan). Jon’s approval date is August 18th and we are praying that he gets approved (no reason he shouldn’t — it’s just that we’ve learned after my candidacy experience that there are no guarantees) and on September 18th, we’ll go into the Bishop’s draft for a region. It’s smaller than THE DRAFT in February (everyone and their mother who is graduating from seminary in the spring) so we think we’ll get to find out our synod at that point. I want OUT of Ohio if we get Region 6 so it’s easily switched with Region 5 where there are TWO ELCA seminaries.
My boys turn a year old next week. To celebrate, they’re getting wet food on Thursday or Friday. (We feed them dry food because it’s better for their teeth.) I can’t believe how much they’ve grown — they were tea cup kittens when we got them last August and now, they’re probably flour cannister kittens. (September and October were the most fun because then, they were “beer stein” kittens.) Cullen is very precocious and Finian is a mellower and bolder version of his brother. They protest soundly when I’m taking a bath without them and they’ll get up with their front paws on the edge of the tub and bat at the bubbles. Finian actually got all the way up on the rail last night and didn’t notice that I was petting him with a wet hand — until I had to towel him off before he was allowed to jump on our bed! (Whoa!!! A new way to bathe the kitties!)
Blair Hornstine, the brat who successfully sued to be valedictorian, has admitted that she did not properly cite materials used in some articles she wrote for her local newspaper. Her defense: “I am not a professional journalist. I was a 17-year-old with no experience in writing newspaper articles.” Uh huh. Sweetie, even us COMMONERS know that if we lift words from someone, we need to cite them. I mean… didn’t we all learn to do this during our freshman year of high school (or even earlier)?!?!?! Something that warms my heart even more: She also faces controversy at Harvard University, where she has been accepted and intends to enroll next fall. She has been a frequent target of critical columns in The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper. Nearly 1,400 people _ some of whom say they are associated with the university _ have signed an online petition asking Harvard to rescind its offer to admit Hornstine. Blair, let me just say that you deserve all of this because you sought to promote yourself above all others. I hope Harvard does rescind your admission because you plagarized other peoples’ work. (I checked the Harvard newspaper article and apparently, admission can be rescinded for plagarism. Boo yah!) I also hope you lose your lawsuit against the school district and the judge tells you that you are a snot-nosed, spoiled brat and should pay the legal fees of the school district AND punitive damages for the negative publicity you’ve caused them. (Thanks to Mac, my favorite right-wing fundie blogger for the heads up on all of this.)
Some lawmakers seek congressional hearings on Iraqi weapons. Well well well well well… appparently the findings aren’t exactly gelling with the Bush propaganda from before the war, meaning that we just wasted countless Iraqi lives over some information that may not be true. The best thing yet on this was what I heard on CNN Headline News while trying to fall asleep last night: “Americans don’t care about this — the war is popular in people’s minds.” Ummm… actually quite a few Americans care that we were probably acting on doctored information. And for the record, I’d be calling for these hearings even if a Democrat was president — I’m not into party politics thankyouverymuch. Oh yes… Texans might want to dopeslap Tom Delay for the following words: “The detractors from our successes might want to congratulate Saddam Hussein on his ability to hide them or destroy them.” Yo moron: why would we want to congratulate a dictator who killed thousands (if not millions) of people??? We wanted him out just as much as you did; but we wanted to do it in a way that wasn’t going to make us look like idiots to the international community. (Methinks the gene pool needs some chlorine…)
Yo Natalie Maines: I and many others appreciated your words in London — heck… if I’d had the funds, I would have bought every Dixie Chicks album on the market in support of your good judgement in questioning the government and their policies. However, you really didn’t help your case here. I know Toby Keith is being a jerk and I know that he’s been ragging on you by posting that stupid doctored photo on big screens at his concerts. Heck… his song (“The Angry American”) made me ashamed to be American. However, you didn’t have to stoop to his level by wearing the FUTK shirt!!! All you did was prove that you might be worthy of some of that criticism and that shirt overshadowed the good in your words in London (the good being that not every American loves Bush or agrees with him and we thankfully have the right to criticize the government).
To Congressman Tiberi: Your letter to me proved that you really don’t give a rat’s butt about the needs of your constituents. Thanks for making me feel like I wasted my vote in November when I helped you get elected. I hope you are soundly defeated in 2004.
In a previous entry, I asked people to leave me questions in the comments section that they wanted answered. Only one person did. C’mon… I know y’all are interested in my life (why else are you reading my blog???), so could y’all please leave me some questions in the comments section of that entry????
I’ll have my new layout up for this journal/blog tomorrow. In the meantime, if people know where any pictures of flaming tongues are on the internet, please let me know. 🙂
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Pacific Northwest, did you say? *ears perk up*
Yeah… I’m hoping for Seattle because there is a good seminary there — not an ELCA one, but still a pretty good one.
Seattle is maybe 200 or 250 miles from here. I like this idea a lot. 😉
seattle is also where most of my extended family is… well… at least within 3 hours of seattle by car or plane. from you (according to mapblast), i would be 2.5-3 hours.
however, this is all subject to the bishop’s draft and we stand a better chance of getting put in minnesota (which would be fine with me) than in washington (where i’d really like to be). a girl can dream though…
What’s the seminary in Seattle you’re thinking of?
(I’m in seattle)
Seattle Pacific. They take non-Catholic M.Div students and I’m hoping that if we get the Pacific Northwest, that my work at my ELCA seminary for my MTS degree would all transfer over.
I talked to one of the “West Coasters” at the seminary who is from Aberdeen and she recommended SPU. I’m thinking that Northwest Washington Synod or Southwest Washington Synod would work with me on this.
Then again… I could also revert back to Episcopalianism…
first off, i totally agree about the dixie chick. i understand people not agreeing with her words, but i know i would say thing about gray davis if he ever became president, and i know that most people in california who were pissed at her statement would too. so 😛 on them. 😉
a question…hmmm…if you could live *anywhere*, where would it be?
and, how’s the marriage going? 🙂
Oh, of course, SPU. They’re a Methodist school, if I recall. Pacific Lutheran is down in Tacoma, and a particularly nasty bit of Tacoma as well. You *could* revert back to Episcopalianism, but then you’d have to go to Berkeley for seminary…
Bazerkly — yes… CDSP is not a bad school — my former rector and some people from my church are grads as well as my Church History prof from my seminary here.
Most people ask me why I’m not at PLTS (the Lutheran sem in Berkeley). My answer: why would I want to go to school in Berkeley????