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Not sure when the last time I posted was.  Probably ought to accept that I'll never be consistant with any online thing any more - except, apparenty, Facebook.  Anyway.  Unimportant.

I did it!  Just over 50K, even though until Thanksgiving afternoon I was still at 11K (or was it 9K?  not sure).

I have never had the problem of the story not being long enough before, but I wrote "The End" at just over 40K, then did two orphan beginnings that I dropped because I had no plot idea and they weren't going anywhere, and instead wrote a short story (somewhere between 5-10K) that is a modern version of Beauty and the Beast, complete with a hacker and an MMORPG.  I don't think it's very good, but it sure entertained me for the last few hours.

Internet is out again until at least Saturday night, because I can't be home during their 4-hour windows until then.  By Saturday it will have been a week and a half.

This is getting increasingly annoying.

I'd be enjoying my new apartment a lot more if I didn't have to go to someone else's house to borrow their internet to post here.

I'm not specifically borrowing it just to post here.  But I miss my internet.  AT&T has failed, again, to set things up correctly and on time, and working six days a week is not helpful to allowing a four hour window for their technician to show up and fix things inside the apartment.  If they could have done it on time over break when I was actually home it would have been so much easier.

I was totally on the news this morning:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtBTBscB6tA

It could have been better, and I needed to sing louder (darn microphones), but overall not bad.

Apparently I missed the big news in Austin today until waaaay later when I got home and checked facebook.  Amazing how teaching shuts you off from absolutely everything.  Of course, it kept me from needlessly worrying, as of my two friends who go to UT, one didn't have class today and wasn't even in Austin, and the other was all the way on the other side of campus from the gunman, who didn't hit anyone anyway.


I've been inadvertently experimenting with fasting, by not actually eating anything except a few pieces of candy and a couple crackers for two and a half days.  I do actually still have food in the freezer.  I just didn't have the energy to cook on Saturday, and fell asleep before I could get around to it on Sunday.  Strangely, I wasn't hungry anyway.  Order was restored Monday night when I finally cooked some ham...but I still was un-hungry enough that I could have put the small meal down and walked away from it at any time.  I no longer wonder how people manage to fast for an entire month.  Apparently, it's easy.


Today was a good day; I like being in the same classroom multiple days, even if it is only two.  Wild student sitting and working quietly for almost the entire afternoon with a few well-placed breaks?  Check!  Struggling students helped to the best of my two-day ability, level and type of help based on need, despite only meeting them yesterday?  Check!  Class all sitting quietly and working when the principal walked in this morning?  Check!  If only the school weren't 40 minutes away on the other side of a town I don't even live in.


It's almost October, it's fall, and it's been cool here.  Score!  If only my laundry room wasn't off my balcony, and I had somewhere other than on top of the washer to dry non-dryer clothes.  Soon the clothes will turn to ice instead of dry, and I'll freeze walking out to get clean clothes in the morning.  (Aww, who am I kidding.  This is Texas.  If that happens at all, it'll be for two days in February, and again on Holy Saturday night.)


I keep wondering whether the apartment would be more likely to get annoyed or get me a new dishwasher if I walk in and describe just how much is wrong with it in beautiful poetic detail.  I detest hand-washing dishes.  The dishwasher make me almost consider hand-washing them anyway.


I love my cat.  It might be a good thing I'm considering single life, because I'd totally obsess over a kid.  They'd grow up with smothered and overprotected issues.  Sometimes I think even my cat already has those, but I don't have the money for a pysch for her....

I wouldn't have missed it for the world
Wouldn't have missed loving you girl
You've made my whole life worth while, with your smile
I wouldn't trade one memory
Cause you mean too much to me
Even though I lost you girl
I wouldn't have missed it for the world


--Ronnie Milsap's "I wouldn't have missed it for the world"



(Not that I'm claiming my whole life was worthwhile for this.... I haven't made that claim since highschool.)

Goodbye Siana Lorraine Jackson, and introducing... Emily Patience Reed.  Who does not in any way resemble her name.

Don't mind me, just trying to remember something.  This is copied from an old blog of mine that I was re-reading, because I don't know when/if I'll re-read it again and want to have a copy of this.  It was initially posted on Good Friday, in which context it makes a bit more sense.

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Dayenu

If the Lord had merely rescued us, but had not punished the Egyptians, it would have been enough.
If He had only destroyed their gods, but had not parted the Red Sea, it would have been enough.
If He had only destroyed our enemies, but had not fed us His food in the desert, it would have been enough.
If He had only led us through the desert, but had not given us his holy day of rest, it would have been enough.
If He had only given us His Words and Commandments, but not a Promised Land forever, it would have been enough.


It would have been enough - these words are probably my favorite part of the Seder meal. Those words hold the memory of all God has done for us and the promise of all that He will do. God owes us nothing; had He done no more than create us, it would have been more than we could ask, and certainly enough. This recitation begins with the reason for the meal, the night when the Isrealites were rescued from Egypt. God did not need to do more than that, yet on their journey He continued to give to them so many other blessings. Today we remember how He suffered and died for our sins; let us also remember how often He has blessed each of us since.

It would have been enough. For each of the blessings we have received in our own lives, we should be able to be grateful, to be content with what we have. Any one of them would have been enough; even the first was more than God was required to give, and each blessing, whatever it may be, is such a huge and amazing gift. Each one would have been enough; how much more wonderful, then, that God has blessed us not just once but a multitude of times.

It would have been enough. As we recognize how many times God has gone beyond "enough," these words remind us that God will not abandon us. His blessings will not stop. Each time we proclaim that it would have been enough, we are reminded that His love for us did not end, and will not end now. We can look forward to each future blessing we will recieve and trust that He will not abandon us, for just as He did not stop after the first gift, so He will not stop now, though everything we have recieved so far would have been enough.

We get to do all the readings at the Easter Vigil this year!!

To Do Today:

• Sleep in!  (done)
• Visit roommate at coffee shop for yummy free coffee   (done)
• Snuggle kitty  (done)
• post stuff to sell on craigslist (done)
• clean bedroom, find advent candles
• Write 5,000 words
• begin Christmas candies by making/freezing truffle filling
• Order FREE collage print from Walgreens.com to cut apart and send to family
• Eat Thanksgiving leftovers
• Build fire and watch movie?

I love long relaxing weekends!