Happy 4th Night of Hanukkah

Happy 3rd Night of Hanukkah!

Happy 2nd Night of Hanukkah!!

Happy Hanukkah!!

For Anne Marie

Another one enters the fray

The matriarch of the siblings, Jennie/Jennifer has now entered the blogging fray! You can find her on Filing Rooms in the places to go section!

A White Russian...

made with soy milk, puts a whole new meaning on "Drink Responsibly"

Disgruntled Is She ???

Jaime wrote a wonderfully long post how she's disgruntled at the cafe "ministry" where we volunteer at our church. I am equally disgruntled, but I also have to do cheesy Christmas music for four services this weekend. The music is so difficult, and yet so poorly written that I have an extremely high level of anxiety on this one. I even had anxiety dreams last night, I don't even know when the last time I had an anxiety dream was, but here I am having them last night.

You would think that I had learned my lesson the last time I did something like this. It was for a praise and worship night they called "Rain" and it was all gospel music. Not like Aretha gospel, not even like Kirk Franklin gospel it was just bad cheesy white-people-tryin-to-be-black gospel, blah...That was the one when the worship leader said it was going to be kinda funky, and I said, "Oooh, like George Clinton and the P-Funk funky?" After staring at me for a significant amount of time..."No, not that funky." "Oh.."

So this time when he called and asked if I would be willing to play acoustic for the Christmas Musical (which isn't technically a musical, it's just a bunch of Christmas music trying to make the impression of a neutral environment so they can then switcheroo to the gospel message) you would think...He's smart, he's getting his masters, a Phd. he'll say no...but I said yes. So now I had one week to learn these horribly bad songs with four key changes (because key changes are emotive, so four key changes are really emotive).

Oh, and then there's the really bad spoken segues, that when I was listening to the CD they gave me, I thought, At least they won't have that crap...Wrong again! So not only do I have to deal with my church selling its soul in the cafe. I also have to deal with the crappy music that is going on this weekend. And there is nothing worse than having to play difficult music that you don't like; the effort to reward relationship is way too low.


P.S. I really wish I could do those links so you could get snipets of how bad this stuff is, but it's a Christian album and a set program, so they've got a copyright on everything there and you can't even get lyric sheets without paying an arm and a leg for them....

Lists of...

Questions:
1. Is it possible that one has to go backward morally in order to go forward compassionately? Or, is it possible to attain the highest morality and be truly compassionate with others?

2. If Jesus is an atonement sacrifice, why Passover? There is nothing remotely connected to atonement within Passover, so why choose that as the day of Crucifixion, if the point of the sacrifice is atonement? Why not Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) that would make more sense?

Books I want to write:
1. God:The Humanist
2. Neither Science nor Religion: Getting Beyond the Tools of Tribalism
3. Orthopraxy: A Postmodern Christian Ethic
4. The Penitent God: God as an Example of Repentance
5. Looking to Perfection: God as an Example of Attainable Perfection

Books I want to read:
1. United States v. George Bush, et al.
2. Palestine: Peace not Apartheid
3. Thy Kingdom Come

P.S. I had more to say at the beginning of finals, but now it's all gone...*sigh*

DONE!!!

Exam... at 7.30... this morning...got up at 6.30... was up till midnight watching Aliens....must get...sleep....

Tomorrow's my last day for the quarter!!!

And here I am taking theolgical tests!!!

Emergent/Postmodern 86% Modern Liberal 79% Classical Liberal 71% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 50% Roman Catholic 46% Neo orthodox 39% Charismatic/Pentecostal 36% Reformed Evangelical 14% Fundamentalist 0% What's your theological worldview? created with QuizFarm.com

3 Days to the End of the Quarter!!

And I've spent the better half of the morning NOT studying for either of my remaining exams! Yes!

4 Days to the End of the Quarter!!!!

And I've finished my French project due on Monday, and that gives me all weekend to study for my last two exams next week!!!