Author Archives: Jen

About Jen

Jen isn't quite sure when she lost her mind, but it is probably documented here on Meditatio. She blogs because the world needs her snark at all hours of the night... and she probably can't sleep anyway.

Palm Sunday

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the palm sunday service at messiah was wonderful. lydia and her old housemate david were with me. david reminds me of my friend tom newton — kind of goofy and all. processing in was fun and being with the two of them rocked.

when i got to high street for lunch, a guy walked in and started taking food. joan went over to him and gently explained to him that the food was for the college students but he could make himself a sandwich if he liked. he left in a huff. apparently, he had come to the front during second service and started preaching. pete got him to stop by playing the next worship piece and slowly increasing the volume. i’ve been told that he goes to local churches and feels like he needs to preach to them. the room suddenly silenced when he walked in. i think we did the right thing by offering him the food but i still felt super uneasy.

Weekend Happenings

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the games night last night rocked. i played speed scrabble with kathy, joan, dane, and melissa and then some killer uno with abby, molly, and ryann. killer uno is like regular uno but much weirder. there are rules like everyone’s name being bubba, being able to play cards out of turn, cards compounding, and having to leap and yell when you put down a draw four card. we then decided to play “norma gardner” which is a name game that i learned from my iv area director. it was fun to play with the older adults because they didn’t know as many new things as we did — including the veggie tales characters. then we played twister and i learned how flexible my friend joe is and that scared me. 🙂

today was the iv women’s retreat. we talked about women’s roles and how we relate. we looked at some passages in genesis and talked about how we view ourselves and the nasty things the media has done to make us hate ourselves. it was a very intense 7 hours but it was wonderful to finally get to talk to my sisters about this stuff.

could we have maybe given our presidential candidates an exam before allowing them to run so that we would possibly have an intelligent president? *canada* is laughing at us because of the idiot we have in the white house.

Bush is a butthead

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my entries have been sparse because this has been a busy quarter. i’m hoping that my upper division standing for lit 80a goes through soon since i need to note that on my candidacy for my bachelor’s degree.

this is why i hate bush. the company that contributed most of his campaign funds is the company selling energy to california. is it any wonder that he doesn’t want to do anything about it? poor little dubya would lose his campaign funds and he wouldn’t be elected again. then again, having a REAL president (as in one whose followers didn’t rig the polls) in the white house would be a good thing.

Books

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well… classes started again and i had a full day of classes. i’m going to check out slugbooks tomorrow and see if i can’t get my lit 80a books cheap down there. i also have to get econ books. *sigh* at least my lit 144b books are on reserve.

I’m Back

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well… i’m back on campus and the quarter starts tomorrow. i don’t actually have class until wednesday so i’m chilling.

my break was mostly spent sleeping and reading jan karon books. i flew up to portland on thursday night and spent friday and saturday night with jon. we went to the oregon zoo and i saw my first beaver. (it was cute except for the sharp teeth.) it was great.

Finally Done!!!!!

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ok… my senior seminar paper is done. if anyone wants to read it (it’s 23 pages, btw), email me. i’m at that tiredness point where moving is painful so i’m gonna take a nap after i finish writing this. i’m leaving today for sj and will not be back until the 26th. this lepicat needs some rest. until the 26th, enjoy the entries in my archives.

Guilt-Tripping Myself

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yes… i know that i should archive last week but i’m doing corrections to my senior sem paper. yes… the one that is due tomorrow. adding the last two pages is going more slowly than i thought it would.