Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Change

So I knew things would change when my friends all started getting married and such.... but now my friends are starting to have babies. Babies!? I can't even always handle myself sometimes, let alone a husband and a baby! Nonetheless, Congrats Neena, we are all very very excited for you and can't wait for the little one. We can only hope it's nothing like RJ or Justin and everything like you. :) Wow....babies...

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Poverty

So our Bible study tonight focused on the radical Discipleship and mounting controversy surrounding Jesus Christ right up until his death. We studied a lot the Sermon on the Mount and what it is asking us to do, in short what God is asking us to do as Disciples, and I keep coming back to this great question that my friend Wilson asked. I'm not sure if he thought of it himself or if he got it somewhere, but nonetheless, its amazingly thought provoking...
"Are we called to eradicate poverty, or are we called to take vows of poverty?"
So regardless of religious convictions, you have to admit.... poverty and the poor have been around FOREVER, the class stratifications in early Europe shaped European society today which in turn influenced America, not to mention that most wars throughout history have been based off money, some people have it, others don't. I'm sure this has some tone about communism in it, but are we ever, as a society, really going to be able to eradicate poverty? Won't that make us all become somewhat equal? Heaven forbid! So if its NEVER going to go away....what's to be done about it? "If you can't beat'em, join 'em"....hmmm...

Monday, January 24, 2005

My job

I know everyone hates their job, but I really hate my job. Corporate America is not for me. I spent 4 years of my life determined that I was going to be in corporate america for the rest of my life, and be that token woman that made it. I spent one week in my current office and decided that I can't handle anything remotely close to that... so in essence now I'm going to put myself in even more debt and going back to school...

Well it can't be all bad eh? A co-worker gave this joke to me at work today, and I had a good laugh.... http://www.masher.co.uk/temp/cnn.html It is of an adult nature, so please beware!

Sunday, January 23, 2005

I've been suckered in....

So I've finally been suckered into the blogging life.... although I think it will be great. Things that I'm willing to put on here will actually turn out to be like an online journal, good for me who refuses to actually write in a journal because I write/talk too much. At one point in my life I started keeping a journal on disk, kind of like "Doogie Howser" (SP?) from the good'ol days so I could type more than I would be willing to write, but I gave up because I was sick of having to save it all the time to different disks etc.

Anyway... I have much to do, grad-school apps, youth sponsor stuff, young adult ecumenical forum, call the OCP-Pam who refuses to return my phone calls...Ham, you're in trouble..., and oh yeah, that amazing thing we call the real world and a job.... hmm...