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I lost my cell phone this weekend.

I bought a used one yesterday — but the worst part is that I’ve lost all my phone numbers. If you’re someone that I call, I need your number.

Don’t post…you don’t want your phone number on the internet…email me your phone information.

PLEASE!

Last Friday Jennifer had a sonogram and the doctor said she could “go anytime.” If she doesn’t go into labor on her own, she’ll most likely be induced on Monday or Tuesday.

In other news, our five year old has had a cold and fever for three days now — and Jennifer woke up this morning with a sore throat. It’s looking to be a taxing weekend!

I’ve created a new site — that is dedicated expressly to Nexus and specifically to our gatherings. The idea is to have a place that is dedicated to our most recent series. It gives the speaker a place to “go deeper” or include stuff that was left out. It also serves as a place where (I hope) people can interact with those ideas and add their own perspectives!

If you’re a part of Nexus, I hope you check it out! (just click on the logo)

In case you haven’t checked this out, my seminary buddy (and one of my dearest friends) sent this link in one of my comments –

Here’s the link.

It’s a Denver Post article about a guy we knew in Seminary. He and his wife lost their first child shortly after he was born. This is an article about his journey and how it relates to his chaplaincy.

I lost my cell phone this weekend.

I bought a used one yesterday — but the worst part is that I’ve lost all my phone numbers. If you’re someone that I call, I need your number.

Don’t post…you don’t want your phone number on the internet…email me your phone information.

PLEASE!

Last Friday Jennifer had a sonogram and the doctor said she could “go anytime.” If she doesn’t go into labor on her own, she’ll most likely be induced on Monday or Tuesday.

In other news, our five year old has had a cold and fever for three days now — and Jennifer woke up this morning with a sore throat. It’s looking to be a taxing weekend!

I’ve never read Tom Wolfe before and in the last two weeks I’ve polished off Man in Full and I am Charlotte Simmons. Charlotte Simmons was depressing to me in that it portrayed the demise of young woman — full of hope, optismism, innocence and potential — as she encountered “normal” college life.

This is a quote from the book, from the character Laurie, as she justifies to Charlotte “normal” college life:

“I guess what I really mean is college is like this four-year period you have when you can try anything — and everything — and if it goes wrong, there’s no consequences? You know what I mean? Nobody’s keeping score? You can do things that if you tried them before you got to college, your family would be crying and pulling their hair out and giving you these now-see-what-you’ve-done looks? — and everybody in Sparta would be clucking and fuming and having a ball talking behind your back about it? — and if you tried these things after you left college and you’re working, everybody’s gonna f—ing blow a fuse, and your boss or whoever will call you in for a little talk, he’ll call it, or if you have a boyfriend or a husband, he’s gonna totally freak out or crawl off like a dog, which would be just as bad, because it’d make you feel guilty? I mean, look at it that way, Charlotte. College is the only time in your life, or your adult life anyway, when you can really experiment, and at a certain point, when you leave, when you graduate or whatever, everybody’s memory like evaporates. You tried this and this and this and this, and you learned a lot about how things are, but nobody’s gonna remember it? It’s like amnesia, totally, and there’s no record, and you leave college exactly the way you came in, pure as rainwater.”

I think Wolfe really nails the attitude of many college students through this character Laurie. And it saddens me that so many college students choose to believe the lie — that “you can leave college exactly the way you came in, pure as rainwater.” And so they live it up — do whatever they want — and maybe other people do forget — but in their own minds they can never, ever forget — which is probably worse.

I’ve never read Tom Wolfe before and in the last two weeks I’ve polished off Man in Full and I am Charlotte Simmons. Charlotte Simmons was depressing to me in that it portrayed the demise of young woman — full of hope, optismism, innocence and potential — as she encountered “normal” college life.

This is a quote from the book, from the character Laurie, as she justifies to Charlotte “normal” college life:

“I guess what I really mean is college is like this four-year period you have when you can try anything — and everything — and if it goes wrong, there’s no consequences? You know what I mean? Nobody’s keeping score? You can do things that if you tried them before you got to college, your family would be crying and pulling their hair out and giving you these now-see-what-you’ve-done looks? — and everybody in Sparta would be clucking and fuming and having a ball talking behind your back about it? — and if you tried these things after you left college and you’re working, everybody’s gonna f—ing blow a fuse, and your boss or whoever will call you in for a little talk, he’ll call it, or if you have a boyfriend or a husband, he’s gonna totally freak out or crawl off like a dog, which would be just as bad, because it’d make you feel guilty? I mean, look at it that way, Charlotte. College is the only time in your life, or your adult life anyway, when you can really experiment, and at a certain point, when you leave, when you graduate or whatever, everybody’s memory like evaporates. You tried this and this and this and this, and you learned a lot about how things are, but nobody’s gonna remember it? It’s like amnesia, totally, and there’s no record, and you leave college exactly the way you came in, pure as rainwater.”

I think Wolfe really nails the attitude of many college students through this character Laurie. And it saddens me that so many college students choose to believe the lie — that “you can leave college exactly the way you came in, pure as rainwater.” And so they live it up — do whatever they want — and maybe other people do forget — but in their own minds they can never, ever forget — which is probably worse.

Friday was my birthday. I fully intended to have a significant post about all the wisdom I’ve acquired in 32 years, but because I violated wisdom #14 (Calendars make great servants and horrible masters.) I haven’t had adequate time to do the post that I wanted to do.

So my birthday really was no big deal. Had my parents over for dinner — which was nice, but otherwise it was pretty low-key and uneventful.

Saturday I was lazy — I mixed some minor jobs with finishing the book I’ve been reading, I am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe (I’ll probably post more about this tomorrow). Then I lost my cell phone. I can’t think of anywhere else to look. I was wearing a hoodie last night and I put it in the front pocket and it must have fallen out — I really have no idea. I’ve tried calling it, but since no one has answered, that must mean it really is lost somewhere. This is going to set me back a few shekels (there goes the $$ I got for my birthday).

just another day in my life…

Friday was my birthday. I fully intended to have a significant post about all the wisdom I’ve acquired in 32 years, but because I violated wisdom #14 (Calendars make great servants and horrible masters.) I haven’t had adequate time to do the post that I wanted to do.

So my birthday really was no big deal. Had my parents over for dinner — which was nice, but otherwise it was pretty low-key and uneventful.

Saturday I was lazy — I mixed some minor jobs with finishing the book I’ve been reading, I am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe (I’ll probably post more about this tomorrow). Then I lost my cell phone. I can’t think of anywhere else to look. I was wearing a hoodie last night and I put it in the front pocket and it must have fallen out — I really have no idea. I’ve tried calling it, but since no one has answered, that must mean it really is lost somewhere. This is going to set me back a few shekels (there goes the $$ I got for my birthday).

just another day in my life…