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Wednesday, 04 November 2009

Thursday, 29 October 2009

  • Hello.

    I haven't updated this since August 1st? Really? Wow.

    I'm a month away from finishing my next-to-last undergrad semester. It's been.. crazy. I started off the semester by having major panic attacks every single night and seriously considered withdrawing. Things are a lot better now.

    Half of the school* had H1N1. I haven't caught it yet.


    I'm still trying to figure out what it means to follow Christ. I honestly don't know if I want to anymore. His other followers are so disheartening. I know that's a silly reason to not want to be a part of it, but it's really hard to get past. I had a woman tell me last night that in order to be in God's will, you must be super-conservative politically. When I explained that even though my politics lean towards the liberal side of things, I believe that the gospel doesn't require me to believe certain things when it comes to politics. Love God, love others, live simply. I can't find these values in any political party, but that is what I believe the gospels are about.

    My professors are letting me take my finals before Thanksgiving so I can stay home and not have to drive 20+ hours before Christmas. Hopefully I can get a job or something.

    Revelife is about to feature one of my blog entries from wordpress.

    I can't decide what to do about grad school. I know I want to go. I don't know what I want to go for. As much as I love literature and writing, I feel completely burnt out on English. There's a program at Duquesne University that is Social Policy with a concentration on Non-Violent Conflict Resolution (or something similar. I forget the exact words). I'm really hoping to get into that program. If not.. well, we'll see. Hopefully I won't have to go work at Starbucks just for health insurance or something.

    I like Mark Mathis.



    *I exaggerate. A couple guys on the baseball team and maybe two or three others had it.

Saturday, 01 August 2009

  • The Shack

    I tried to read it. I didn't like it. I didn't want to finish reading it.

    My mom bought it for me the day before yesterday, so I read it. I can't not read something someone buys me. I feel bad.

    I read the first 170 pages in one sitting. I don't hate it as much as I did. It's helping me come to terms with a few Brittani-related things. I'm still annoyed that the guy is a millionaire because of his writing, which is on the same level as a 10th grade English class. I'm probably going to finish it to night.

    That's all.

Thursday, 30 July 2009

  • The X and Y of Buy - Book Review

    I signed up to be a book reviewer for Thomas Nelson publishing. This was the first book they sent me.

    The gist: You have to market to men and women separately. Elizabeth Pace will tell you how to do just that.

    My review: I have to admit, I was really bored through the whole thing. I'm not very interested in marketing. It was sort of interesting from a psychological standpoint, but overall I found my mind wandering while I tried to read it. I haven't read any other marketing books, but I think that if someone was interested in the topic, they'd like this book. This book also made me realize that, if they are correct, I think like a man much more than I think like a woman. It seems that she is going more by stereotypes than by actual research, but I could be wrong. The majority of the time she talks about men, she points out that they are not emotional, not sensitive to pain, and generally macho. When she talks about women, she lumps us all together as emotional, sensitive, and concerned with things that are pretty.

    Overall, the book wasn't too bad. I really think if I was interested in marketing, I'd like it more. I didn't like the stereotypical way of portraying men and women. Maybe we are all like how they assume we are. I don't know. 

    Side note: There was something crusty on the book when it was sent to me. I'm kind of grossed out.


Tuesday, 21 July 2009

  • Church Words Dictionary

    I've started one in my notebook I always keep in my purse. I realized there are a lot of words and phrases that get said during church services that either no one really ever defines or they're kind of misleading. I'm looking for about 50 words or so to make into a series of facebook notes (which will probably get put on here, too.) I'm doing it in the style of The Devil's Dictionary, so I'm not being totally serious about this.

    Here are some of the ones I have now:
    The Anointing
    Young Adults Ministry
    Enter in/Press in [This apparently only gets said a lot in Charismatic circles. I didn't know that.]
    Free Will Offering
    Outreach
    Youth Ministry
    Bible-Believing Church [I always get that one thrown at me when I say I'm considering Catholicism]
    The Secret Place
    Fellowship

    I'm really just putting this here to remind myself to actually work on it, but if any one of my 2 readers has any more suggestions, I'll take them. :)




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