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Blogathon 2006

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OK… the plan to blog for NPF fell through (though I did send them a donation as a conciliatory gesture) so the plan now is to blog for Lutheran World Relief if I get their blessing. My schtick will be Lutheran Alphabytes so I’m starting to collect Lutheran topic ideas that start with each letter of the alphabet. (If you have any, by all means leave them in the comments.)

Sign-ups start on July 1st and I’ll let y’all know when I can start accepting pledges.

Now to be a good Jen and get the translations done for them…

Oh yeah… my list so far is under the cut.

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Lost in Translation

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I’m the French translator for Blogathon 2006 and in translating my first of the pages, I realized how much I suck at going from English to French.Â? I can translate French-English without a problem but in doing reverse translation, I start nitpicking over the exact word I want to use and it makes it take longer than it would going the other way.

This is why I don’t go off on tangents about how one translation of the Bible is inherently better than another — each translation bears the biases of the translator. Â? Granted, I can read Koine Greek and Biblical Hebrew so I can see some of the inside jokes and nuances which get lost in translating the Scriptures into English.Â? I guess this is why we have Bible commentaries?

Green Blogathon Finit

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The Green Blogathon has come and gone. If you wanted to pledge me and didn’t get a chance, go here and follow the instructions.Â? I’m extending the deadline to Monday at 1200 MST since I know not all of you read your email on weekends and some don’t have Internet access at home.Â? If you want to see all I said and did, go here.
I want to say a BIG thank you to Shea, Jeff, Kevin, George, Liz, Ryan, Mike, and Michael.Â? I was really happy to meet y’all and to get to hang out with you for a very strange yet awesome 24 hours.Â? Thanks for including me in all of this.Â? 🙂

Reminder

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I’ll be participating in the Green Blogathon starting tonight and going until tomorrow night.

Besides the expected SPONSOR ME PLEEEEEEAAAAASSSSEEEEEE plea, I’d also *LOVE* for people to come on over and leave me comments. If you want to be my cheerleader, IM me, OK?

Oh yes… if I get more than $500 in pledges, I’ll post a picture of myself dancing to the Numa Numa song.Â? (Some incentive to pledge.Â? :P)

Awesome Mom

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I told my mom about what I was doing for the Green Blogathon and asked for any national park pictures she had.Â? I checked my email after being out for the morning and part of the afternoon and found some awesome pictures in my inbox from 14 (!!!) different national parks that she and my dad and brother had been to and had photographed.

My mom is simply awesome.