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Blurty for Little Leah.
|Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
1. I LOVE grilled cheese. As in, I-could-eat-it-every-day-and-never-get-t
2. Under The Tuscan Sun is near the top of my all time favorite movies list because the main character doesn't find what she's looking for until all her plans fail and she stops to look at her life and realizes all of her dreams are already in front of her. It's all in the way you choose to look at life!
3. I tell myself every time I clean my bedroom/kitchen/bathroom/car/purse etc... that I'm going to keep it clean this time.
4. It never works--I'm messy again in a week, TOPS.
5. I love buying nice smelling lotions and fancy skin & hair care products, but I hardly ever remember to use them.
6. I wish I was one of those people that had the drive to go above and beyond in everything they did.
7. I wish I'd been faced with more challenges--having trouble in school or being poor or something... I think I'm lazy because nothing in my life has ever been difficult. I've always skated by with no problems.
8. I have 2,611 MP3 files on my computer. I can't remember the last time I listened to music off my computer.
9. I take pictures of EVERYTHING, and as I'm taking them, I write the captions in my head that I plan on writing next to them in a scrapbook or photo album.
10. I never thought I'd be one of those people--but I have jeans on the top shelf in my closet that are too small and I keep telling myself I'll wear them again someday.
11. I love to read but I almost never do it because TV is easier and mindless.
12. My life would be much less stressful if I just did what I needed to do and didn't waste my time avoiding the things I need to do.
13. I hate it when people don't replace the toilet paper roll when they use one up. I hate it WAY more if they replace it but leave it sitting on the counter like it'll jump on the holder by itself.
14. I keep way too much crap. I need TLC's Clean Sweep to come in and make me throw things away, but I'd never do it because then I'd have to throw stuff away.
15. I want to get married and have kids so much that sometimes it makes me crazy. But at the same time, I really like my life how it is now.
16. I really miss people that I haven't seen in a long time, but I'm really bad at keeping in touch.
17. I like the fact that my life hasn't followed the "normal" path of high school for 4 years, college for 4 years, graduation, wedding, great job, etc... but I still have a hard time explaining that to people when they ask--I feel like I have to spend a lot of time justifying myself. But generally they're not judging me--I am.
18. I love new office supplies. If you gave me the choice between a $500 gift certificate to a clothing store OR to staples, I'd have a REALLY hard time choosing.
19. I want to live somewhere warm, like Arizona or Florida.
20. I want my old job back the way it was with Dan and Josh and I running Crosswalk. I liked it.
21. I really want to get a job on a cruise ship this summer working in the children's programming on board.
22. I'm scared to death to leave for 4-6 months if I do get the cruise ship job. I think people will move on with their lives, get new friends and forget me or cut me out of their lives.
23. I probably only think that because I have a ridiculously overactive lack of self-confidence that convinces me that people don't like me a lot more often that it is true.
24. If I wear perfume, it's Estee Lauder Pleasures.
25. I started wearing Pleasures because I had a free trial bottle of it a long time ago and my friend Chris grabbed my wrist when he smelled it on me and told me it reminded him of someone from high school and said that now he'd always think of me too when he smelled it, so I started wearing it all the time.
26. I want to live alone, but I don't have any money and I like Kristin :)
27. I think I'd hate living alone after a while, because I get bored and lonely with nothing to do and no one to talk to... there's only so much cleaning I can do to keep myself occupied before I go crazy.
28. My lucky numbers are 15 and 31, and have been from the time I won a drawing at our school store in Elementary school with those numbers.
29. I don't really believe in lucky numbers. I think it's silly.
30. I think "Flowers in a Can" is the coolest thing I've seen in a while-flower seeds, soil, plant care tips all wrapped up in a can that you can buy at uncommongoods.com? CRAZY!
31. I have a "label buddy" that punches letters into the sticky back label tapes, and I think it's even cooler than "Flowers in a Can."
32. I often forget to water my plants, and they get near death, but I revive them at the last moment. Sorry plants.
33. Craft supplies are another one of my weaknesses, along with the office supplies. Hobby Lobby and Michaels are some of the best stores on earth.
34. I'm finally finished with college, and I kind of wish I could go back and start all over again.
35. I sat in the back row at college graduation. Not by choice, but hey, I ended up right in line with where my parents were sitting.
36. I really don't know how I ever survived without a cell phone... and at the same time, I never wanted one that badly until I got it.
37. I think home-made Chex mix is SO much better than the stuff you buy at the store, so I stock up on those little packs of seasoning at Christmastime so I can make it later in the year.
38. I wish I had longer finger nails, or that I could afford to get acrylics all the time, because I think they make you look feminine.
39. I love pictures and picture frames, so I have them all over the place, on every available surface.
40. I can't wait to have my own house so I can do all my own decorating and such.
41. I also can't wait to have my own house so I can have more storage, and can put stuff wherever I want it.
42. I check my bank accounts online all the time, but I almost never bother to open my bank statement when it comes in the mail.
43. I have a filing cabinet that has a huge stack of papers inside of one drawer, and all my empty file folders in the other. (oops)
44. I love the magazine REAL SIMPLE. Love, love, love it.
45. I really like Martha Stewart now that she's done with jail. She's much more real and actually can make fun of herself on her new show.
46. I somehow manage to lose all my hair ties and nail files, and I don't really know how.
47. I had an awesome ASU sweatshirt at one point in time, and I can't find it anymore. I really miss it, and it makes me sad.
48. I just bought my first CMU sweatshirt ever last week. I went there for 4.5 years, and didn't buy any sweatshirts until after graduation.
49. I love buying stationery and cute cards, but I don't like to use them because then I won't have them anymore. I know that completely defeats the point of buying them, and I think I'm goofy, but I still don't use them.
50. I put my clothes in the closet and on shelves in rainbow order... and I love it!
|Friday, February 11th, 2005
so let me just share with you all (all 2 of you who may read this).... being sick is the stupidest thing in the world. my recommendation is that you NEVER do it. ok? ok. deal.
however, it was kind of nice to just lay around today and not do ANYTHING.... missing work is not the best plan, but it was nice to sit around and watch TV for 6 hours.... too bad i gave up TV for lent. i guess that went out the window with my health. sorry.
so tonight should be good though. my honey is coming over early to hang out with me since i haven't seen him much this week, and we're going to eat my yummy tombstone stuffed crust pizza--- best frozen pizza on earth next to freschetta (yes, they make delicious pizzas, for your information-- get them. they're good).... and then i will hopefully feel better. have to bowl tonight with the gang, wake up tomorrow way early to do some crosswalk stuff-- helping them bake cookies for old people so they can deliver them on sunday to the oldies homes around here... and then jenni & tim's wedding tomorrow! :) hooray! and i have the CUTEST date :) haha
anyway, i have to go clean some stuff up--- clean out the drain in the bath tub so i can take a shower without standing in ankle-deep dirty water (i know it's gross, but if i have to deal with it, you get to hear about it, so hush)... and then i have to clean the kitchen because it's SO ridiculously dirty... me being sick and kristin being busy and the dishwasher being full of clean dishes for a whole week now means the kitchen is a disaster. so much for my 3 hours of cleaning last weekend. oh well. i like cleaning the kitchen. it is fun for me. the pulling the grody hair and junk out of the bathroom drain--- not so much--- but it must be done. wish me luck.
i love the word "y'all", just so you know. i shall use it often. i want to be from the south. let's all move there. it's warm there too.
y'all come back now, y'hear?
shut up, you know you love me
|Thursday, January 27th, 2005
so someone i live with (to remain nameless) just made me laugh out loud:
"so yes, it is my feet that smell like vinegar. i came up here, and i was confused because the smell followed me up stairs... and then i realized it was my feet."
oh roommate, i love you!
|Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
so for those of you who don't know, i have a wonderful boyfriend. sorry to all you guys out there who were pining after me (haha); i'm off the market. you'll probably hear a lot about Chad as i post more, so if you see the name, that's who i'm talking about! :)
yesterday was such a good day. i went to bed at 11:00 on Monday night, and didn't get up until 8:45 yesterday, so with nearly 10 hours of sleep, i was good to go. it felt so good yesterday being well rested and able to keep up with my day. i worked with children's ministries for a bit, making coffee and printing off labels and that sort of menial work, which is good and bad at the same time. it's just hard at the beginning of a job, when you don't really know what's going on. since i've been working with senior high since last may, and interned there before that and volunteered even before that, the combined 1.5 years have helped me to really get a grasp on all of what is going on there. part of the reason why i took the job down in children's was to get a similar idea of what goes on down there. but it takes a while, and thats hard for me since i'm so used to knowing everything in senior high at this point.... i'll get there though. i just need to learn to be patient. :)
and now i'm going to get on my soap box for a moment:
so i was reading Ezra 9 the other day, and Ezra tears his clothes for the people of Judah who have returned to Jerusalem and aren't doing things quite right, getting back into mixing with the other people around them who aren't God's chosen people.... starting back down the path toward destruction basically... so anyway, Ezra tears his clothes in grief, and bows down before God to pray vehemently for forgiveness... even though HE has not participated in this sin. but it just shows his extreme grief for sin in general; the seriousness of sin. and i wonder if we as Christians don't take it seriously enough most times... because, hey! we're forgiven! it doesn't matter if we sin, right? we're already guaranteed a spot in heaven, so as long as we say we're sorry afterward, it doesn't really matter. but at the same time, we sit there and judge others around us who don't know the Lord yet, and think how much better we are because they are sinning and AREN'T forgiven.... what the heck?? That is just silly... sin is sin is sin... whether we're already forgiven or not. God doesn't love us anymore after we accept Christ. He loves us all. The same. and we're called to do that as well. we as Christ-followers KNOW that sin is an offense against God. Non-Christians don't really have that mindset. it says somewhere in Romans or something that the Law doesn't set us free and that before the law, sin didn't exist. If we don't know it's wrong, why WOULDN'T we sin? Let's be honest-- it's fun. That's why it's TEMPTING. (and you can make an argument for moral absolutes that everyone agrees to, but just go with me on this.) So, if we are judging people, where does that leave us room to love? and since when have you ever heard of someone coming to church and giving their life over to Christ because they were made to feel GUILTY?? yeah, NEVER maybe?? they are drawn to us by our LOVE for one another and for them. God IS love. it says it all over the Bible. God is just, and God is holy. but HE is the judge. WE are called to LOVE...
just a thought.
|Sunday, January 16th, 2005
so today was a blast :) for church this morning, we were talking about Colossians 3... taking off the old self and putting on the new, and how when you become a Christian, there are things in our lives that we have to get rid of because they just don't fit.... so the student ministries staff & interns wore outfits that were supposed to be "the opposite of our normal style/personality".... Dan was goth-- so funny... and Ann (who is very simple and never wears makeup) had a cheerleader outfit.... etc... Dan decided that i should dress like a complete DORK! thanks for that, Knuff! I had on a tan wool skirt from kristin that hung really low around my calves, a collared shirt buttoned all the way up with a sweater over top, and white ankle socks with brown loafers.... plus i put my hair in pig tail braids, and wore my (broken) glasses taped together..... wow. i got some looks, let me tell ya! the best part was when students would ask me why i was dressed that way and i would reply with something like "what? you don't think this fits me?" (our pre-determined answer to all questions)... some of the students were pretty taken aback by my line, and actually apologized and said i looked really cute. i don't know what they were smoking, but it was good to see that they're sensitive... haha.
then i got to sit through the rest of church in the stupid outfit while dan ran off to pick up his wife and new baby from the hospital (yay!) and Scott & Ann changed!! boo... and i stayed in my cool clothes so Chad could see me when he showed up for work at 1.... wow, i certainly had to let go of my pride a little today. :) haha
so then i came back and kristin and i continued the cleaning fest (i started last night) so we could have people over tonight and not be embarrassed :) it was quite nice getting everything pretty and organized. my bedroom is still a disaster, but we're getting better.... no clean clothes on the floor anymore-- they all made it into the closet. the problem is, i have sliding doors on my closet, and 3 of them at that, so it's hard to keep the right one open at all times as i have to get different things out, so putting the clothes away takes so much effort to open the right area for the hanging clothes, and shove the 3 doors out of the way, then move it again to get to the folded clothes area, and then again to put away shoes/bags/etc.... then again, if i didn't let it pile up and put things away as i used them, i wouldn't have to open so many doors at once.... oh well.
so then tonight chad and paul and chad's friend kevin, kristi, catherine, and jeremy all came over for cards, pizza, and most importantly --- to watch the Usual Suspects. i love that movie. i didn't get reactions yet from kristi and chad, but i promised them it was a great movie, so i'll have to find out what they think. Chad promised a good time with napoleon dinomite though, and i didn't love that as much as he does, so who knows. it was a fun night though. we should have people over more often.... it's fun.
so anyway, i'm off to bed so i can wake up tomorrow morning to babysit all three kids ALL DAY because they have school off (stupid MLK)... while chad and paul have the day off to sleep in and goof off because they also have school off... :( sad for me. oh well. good night!
|Thursday, January 13th, 2005
How to Clean House
1. Open a new file in your PC.
2. Name it "Housework."
3. Send it to the RECYCLE BIN
4. Empty the RECYCLE BIN
5. Your PC will ask you, "Are you sure you want to delete Housework
6. Answer calmly, "Yes," and press the mouse button firmly....
7. Feel better?
hahahahaha :) have a great day!
Which Napoleon Dynamite character are you?
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and because i just LOVE that movie (or not, but hey, whatever)
Ok, well here is the long awaited (probably by no one but myself) list of resolutions for this year: (i figured now that it's half way into january, i should probably get them written down)
1. Post more on here. because i said in the one a little while ago that i would have that as one of my resolutions
2. Keep up with my daily devotional time, and keep a prayer journal. something i'm doing ok at right now, and the prayer journal has been sweet over the last few weeks as i've really seen God answer my prayers... and i'm making it into a resolution so that i'll keep it up...
3. Work out. I'm such a slacker, and I'm really out of shape. I need to get in better condition, and i have the stuff i need to do that, even at home. i just need to DO it. sitting on the couch just isn't helping me look or feel better.
4. Trust God. with EVERYTHING. I tend to trust Him with the easy stuff, but try to control the stuff that i'm just not quite willing to give up and let someone else be in control of. But the more I see of Him, the more I know that He is completely trustworthy, and the more I know that He'll do a much better job than i ever could!
5. Keep the house clean. Especially my room. my room is consistently the messiest in the house, and it's making me crazy. i have a good organizational system (i'm really anal--my clothes on the shelves and hanging in the closet are even in rainbow order.... oh i'm such a nerd), but i just need to get the stuff in it! i get started cleaning, but because there is so much STUFF in the room, i can't get around to clean it very well, and it just adds up and adds up and i HATE it! ack! but then again i can't find the motivation to clean it, even though i hate it so violently.... ugh. wish me luck.
6. "Be mistaken for Jesus Christ every once in a while." chad said something like that on his site a while back, and i like it. something i really should strive for more often.
i'll have to figure out some more later. for now, it's almost 3 am and i need to go to bed :) good night
|Sunday, January 9th, 2005
so i apologize for missing a day yesterday :)
yesterday was fun times in the children's wing, working with carmon and belinda, watching belinda beat everyone in settlers (a super cool game! --- that i will never learn to play and am only going to give you the previous statement as a peace offering in hopes that you'll all give up and realize i just really don't want to play).... i'm enjoying the new job so far but i can't wait for the point in time when i know what's going on enough to not have to ask Belinda or Carmon what to do....
so then we had our ministry team/staff all-nighter mini-retreat.... it was a blast. we talked about crosswalk and what we're up to this year, voted on mission trips, and just got to hang out together for a bit... we went ice skating at the summit, which was really fun because kristi and chad came along. always a good time with them around. chad took some really nice pictures of me and kristi by pulling the camera out of his pocket in the middle of our conversations and snapping unfocused shots of us with our eyes closed and mouths wide open, i'm sure. thanks Chadley.
i went home to sleep because i'm a pansy and my back hurt too bad to sleep on the floor again... and when i came back in the morning, i helped clean the church. Half of our group went out to feed homeless people in Lansing, and the rest of us cleaned. it was fun though, because i ended up staying for most of the day and helping Chad and Paul..... well, really i mostly watched them do work, but i had fun :)
then it was home for dinner with mom and dad, and we went to see spanglish. it was ok. rent it. don't waste your money at the theatre....
and now i'm off to bed so i can wake up in the morning. g'night!
|Friday, January 7th, 2005
a. Leah
b. LeeLee
c. Lisa (one of our family friends can't remember my correct name apparently)
d. um.... that may be it.... chad calls me mom.... too much vicadin
a. i'm forgiving
b. i know how to knit :)
c. i kept most of my new years resolutions last year
d. i laugh a lot and enjoy life
a. not hate, but i wish i was better about being on time
b. i am no good at mario kart
c. i wish i liked more vegetables so i'd eat healthier
d. my room is a mess... it's driving me crazy
what does that mean? i don't know and i don't feel like thinking so i'm skipping it.
a. trinity church--- where i spend 80% of my waking moments.
b. crunchys on kareoke night-- always fun
c. my townhouse--- i like being home sometimes.
d. wherever my friends are--- sounds cheesy, but i can't think of any other specific place
a. playing barbies with my sis
b. making up the game car alert (man, we were weird)
c. hanging out with krissy w. and making "KLS Express" commercials in the basement with her dad's old camcorder.
d. i was a geek and a half and i loved every minute of my life
a. dark windows at night when i'm inside-- i'm afraid someone will jump in front of them and scare me
b. my neighbors walking around when i'm home alone--- it sounds like someone is in MY place
c. that some people i love will never come back to church
d. that we're all missing out on what God really wants His Church to look like
a. hate
b. bigotry
c. lying
d. salad
a. deodorant (you're welcome)
b. underwear
c. my keys
d. oxygen
a. blue tank top
b. pink fleece pants
c. pink fleece hoodie
d. black socks
a. shane & shane
b. bethany dillon
c. david crowder band
d. jeremy camp
a. i didn't really like them (8th grade)
b. they didn't really like me (11th grade)
c. i realized there was no way on earth i was going to marry them (last year)
d. that's it....
a. potatoes of any kind
b. cheese ravioli with meat sauce
c. stouffers frozen mac n cheese
d. christmas cookies and chex mix
a. love
b. honesty
c. passion for God and growing together
d. me
a. love for God
b. love for others
c. honesty
d. humility
a. snowboard -- i've never tried though
b. play the guitar -- but i'd love to learn
c. hold my breath for longer than one minute -- that's ok though
d. eat my body weight in spaghetti -- yeah, i know i'm random
a. shopping
b. football (watching and playing)
c. sleeping
d. knitting
a. a new car
b. more hours in the day
c. a magic wand
d. world peace (sorry, too much Miss Congeniality)
a. youth ministry
b. childrens ministry
c. stay at home mom
d. thats pretty much it
a. anywhere warm
b. costa rica -- beautiful country
c. arizona -- i miss it
d. anywhere warm
a. get married and have kids
b. lead someone to Christ
c. make a difference
d. really live
woo hoo that was fun. you know you loved it. :)
|Thursday, January 6th, 2005
so tonight, crosswalk was really cool. we did a community meal, with just discussion in round tables. no worship, no speaking. just fellowship. and real discussion.... it was nice
i think we're going to do it the first week every month this year.... something different, to get our group talking to each other, and talking to new people, and having real conversations other than just what clothes they bought at the mall this week or who they have a crush on (ok, maybe i've been spending too much time with girls :) haha)
the second week will be an "outreach" night where we do something to attract other people... having a cool band come in, doing "fear factor" (the choice for this month), etc....
the third week will be our "options" night.... where we come in and do a few songs and announcements and a short testimony... then we split into a number of--yes, you guessed it--OPTIONS.... a worship/deep Bible study group, a leadership group for guys, a small group for girls, a movie area, hanging out in the cafe/youth room (mor fellowship), 3-on-3 basketball or something of that sort in the gym..... where kids at all kinds of spiritual levels can find a place to fit in and something they want and are comfortable with.
and the fourth will be a deep worship/prayer/teaching night....
we're going to see if that helps bring in lost kids and deepen the community within our group, because those are two things we really need. i'm really excited..... God can do some cool stuff i think
here's a snippet from my convo with greg house, cause he makes a cool point:
JCsBigHus (12:48:29 AM): that sounds really exciting.
little leah 125 (12:48:39 AM): yeah. should be cool to see what God does with our group
JCsBigHus (12:51:12 AM): I love seeing what God does with different groups.
JCsBigHus (12:51:25 AM): part of my favorite is that no two groups are the same.
little leah 125 (12:51:31 AM): yeah
little leah 125 (12:51:40 AM): but God is always moving
little leah 125 (12:51:43 AM): it's crazy
JCsBigHus (12:51:59 AM): yea
it's so true.... no church, no group, no person looks the same as they change and grow, but God moves in so many ways..... so very cool.
so tonight i played mario kart with chad, zane, stephanie, and eventually paul and josh nunn..... man i suck at that game. though i did start to get a little better by the end of the night..... but i stress a LITTLE.
anyway, time to go to bed now, so i'm done blurting too :) i'll get back to y'all later with more fun from the church-front! g'night
so a while back i posted something about snowing in michigan.... well this picture is even BETTER...
wow. snow day tomorrow! across the whole midwest!
|Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
hey, i made a xanga site today.... it's like this, but different....
no pink on that page.
on purpose.
check it out
xanga - what a crazy word
let me know what you think
by TD Jakes (apparently..... that's what the email said and i suppose i should post that too so i'm not plaigerizing <------------ how is that really spelled???)
There are people who can walk away from you. And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone. When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. The Bible said that, "they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us." [1 John 2:19] People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay. Let them go. And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's dead. You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay. Let them go!!!
If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to ..LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ...LET IT GO!!! If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth...LET IT GO!!! If someone has angered you ... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge .. LET IT GO!!! If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction ... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents ...LET IT GO!!! If you have a bad attitude...LET IT GO!!! If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better... LET IT GO!!! If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him. LET IT GO!!! If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship....LET IT GO! If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves...LET IT GO!!! If you're feeling depressed and stressed .... LET IT GO!!! If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you need to... LET IT GO!!! Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing for 2005!!! LET IT GO!!! Get Right or Get Left .. think about it, and then LET IT GO!!! "The Battle is the Lord's!"
Yes, I love my God. He is my fountain of Life and My Savior. He Keeps me going day and night. Without Him, I am no one. But with Him, I can do everything, Christ is my strength.
i like that.... good for me to remember lately. sometimes you just have to walk away from people that are bad to you, no matter how much you care for them. it only hurts them to stay and enable them to continue.... it's hard, but the Lord is good to help and give strength as needed. Phil 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
|Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
yeah, i completely suck at keeping this updated.... HOWEVER, maybe that'll be one of my new years resolutions.... blurt more. deal.
well.... i made it through 2004... and i posted here a while back my resolutions for then.... lets see how i did:
1. Spend some devotional time with God every day, reading the Bible and praying. not good over all for the year, but in the last few months, very good. not EVERY day, but most days. there are still nights when i'm "too tired" and really lazy, but for the most part, it's good.
2. Go to every scheduled class. darn. not so good. i was good last semester for the most part. not so good this semester. 8 missed classes out of 32. 75%.... ew. but i had to drive an hour and it sucked. no excuses.... oops. strike one... or really strike 0.5, because i did go to most of them
3. Read the books, do the homework. Ahead of time. for the most part. still did a bit of procrastinating, but i actually did my reading for class, so that was better than normal.
4. Work on being punctual. getting better. still not perfect by any means, but i'm not as bad as i used to be. i made it to class on time every day i went.
5. Devote more time to individual Crosswalk students. could do better still. i've had a lot more convos and such, but i don't spend a lot of time hanging out with them. might have to make this one again.
6. Go to His House on Thursday nights! Get involved in a small group! well, not His House so much now that I'm living in Lansing full time, but I do go to Greenhouse and i've been in a small group all year and loving it. so nice work.
7. Keep in better contact with friends. ew... kind of with people like Tracy and others from CMU, but i still suck. i've been a loser and lousy friend to quite a few (yes, including you kT).... sorry. strike one and a half
8. Work out. Get fit. Stop eating so much junk. hahaha. well, not really. strike two and a half. have to make that one again.
9. Get on a regular sleeping schedule. not on purpose necessarily, but my body refuses to stay up as late so often and will not wake up if i don't give it enough sleep. good thing my schedule has been flexible most days!
10. Figure out what to do after school ends.i can say unequivocably yes to this. i'm in ministry for life. details to be revealed to me as we go.
11. Enjoy life! much better. still have my bad days that i waste whining, but mostly good.
12. Let go of all the pain from last year. much much better. i dealt with my issues and had a really good year. kicking depression was the best thing i ever did. Thanks God.
so i actually did ok. just 2.5 strikes out of 12 possible misses. not too shabby. good. that means i will make another one and hopefully do so well. wish me luck
for now, that involves going to bed....
because i also get to start my job with the children's ministries tomorrow morning, and i have to be there at 9:30... so it's bed time.
by the way, Chad is a very wise theologian, so if you are ever in need of a good, deep spiritual talk and can't think of someone else to talk to, you should talk to him. not that pretty much any of the rest of you know Chad, but hey, whatever. i had a good convo tonight. thanks Chadley. those pain killers do wonders for your brain power :)
g'night everyone
|Monday, December 13th, 2004
and this is why i hate michigan....
yeah. that's ALL snow... nasty
so, off i go to scrape off my car and try not to die on the way to my babysitting job. yay for winter. or not.... bleh
|Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
only 14 days.... 2 weeks... until i am done with school!!!!
i am excited. can you tell??
in all actuality though, i do have to go back next summer for 6 weeks to do my internship in the child development lab, and it's an 8 credit class that will kick my butt and take over my life... so i'm not REALLY DONE with school....
BUT... i am done UNTIL next summer.... so close enough
any time off from school is reason to celebrate.
and as of next july, i will be done forever!!!!!!!!!
unless i go back to grad school............
ew... let's not think about that right now, ok?
i hate school
and with that, off to our church's college group :)
|Sunday, November 28th, 2004
so i was thinking today about school, and wondering when our big "project" is due.... i say "project" in quotation marks because it's not really a typical project. we had 2 options--- to go to 5 "diversity events" during the semester and write up 1-2 page responses on each of them and a 2 page overall summary, or to be a conversation partner with an international student.
i have, of course, done absolutely nothing so far.
i have too much going on already to remember to do school stuff when i'm at home. i have this strange disconnect between my life as a student, in Mount Pleasant, and my life as the regular me, in Lansing, working and hanging out with people.... that area of separation comes in part from the fact that i have a full hour between lives on the drive there and back, and that it's only a few days a week for an hour or so.... school is like a distant tiny part of my other life... and i forget about it completely when i'm here. so i've done nothing.
do i lie? say i've been to these events that have happened this semester? i don't have dates for them, and i only have 4, and it would be a lie for 3 of them, and one of the 4 (the one i actually went to) was not a pre-approved activity and so i don't know that it would count... it says in the syllabus that it will not count, but it also said that if you turn in a paper outside of class you can only get up to 16 out of 20 points on it, and i was sick one time and emailed it to her and still got 19 out of 20, so i don't know that she'd stick to her "rules" on this either.... so i don't know... it would be lying, and i hate that.
i could suck it up and just miss out on the 50 points. all i really care about at this point is getting a C in the class so it counts for my major..... but then i feel like i'm missing out, because in Colossians 3:23 it says "whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.".... and not doing the project definitely does not count as working at it with all my heart.... but it's too late to really do it.... unless...
i HAVE been talking with Diana-- a girl from Bolivia who has come up here to live with the Beaumans (a family from Trinity)..... and we HAVE talked about a lot of her customs, her family, her country, how it is here in the US, etc.... BUT i didn't sign up with the teacher to do that, and she would have given me a student to work with --- but then i would have had to make extra trips to MP to do that.... no thanks....
so i don't know what i'm going to do.... and this whole post made pretty much no sense... but oh well.
i'll figure things out. any suggestions are greatly appreciated though :)
happy sunday! :) hehe
|Saturday, November 27th, 2004
my goodness... it's saturday night.... i'm sitting at home, by myself, with kristin gone to her mom's for the weekend, kati at a wedding, greg with his girlfriend and thereby unlikely to talk to anyone else, cris being too busy for me as per usual, cherise at her little bro's state football game at the dome, my mom in arizona, and my sister doing homework (not that she'd hang out with me if she wasn't, but still).... and after that i run out of friends in the area.... well, maybe not completely, but friends that i'd be likely to hang out with on a saturday night.
i hate rain so i have yet to be out of the house today, and i've talked to my mom on the phone for a few minutes (but that the only phone call i've had today)..... i watched bridget jones diary on TV which, against the point of the movie, just makes me feel like an even bigger loser.
it may all be PMS, winter blahs, or rainy day blues, but wow, feeling like a loser should be my occupation today.
and part of me says, ok then go do something-- go christmas shopping, go grocery shopping, go get some food for dinner, go rent a movie (or take back the one you've had for 3 weeks), go do SOMETHING.... but then i look out the door and it's raining a lot so i close the door and sit back down on the couch or my chair here in front of the computer... bleh.
anyway, just thought i'd share.... bleh. have a super saturday.
i don't even have thanksgiving leftovers to make me feel better... .... sad.
|Friday, November 19th, 2004
well blurties, i'm off to atlanta, ga.... for the national youth workers convention. i know, i know, you're jealous.
but seriously, i'm pumped!
a plane ride,
a weekend away without students,
the first trip i've gone on without it being directly crosswalk (still for crosswalk, but more a personal trip than dragging 50 high schoolers to pennsylvania and back),
nice weather (70 degrees again! :) yay),
and checking out a new-to-me cool city :),
plus the conference is supposed to be pretty cool...
hip hip hooray!
check ya later, blurts.... have a good weekend!
Blurty for Little Leah.


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There are only a few weeks left in the 2011 fantasy baseball season, sniffle, but that doesn't mean there aren't still championships to be won. Here are the answers to some of the questions that I have recently received at the BaseballGuys' Twitter account.
Of these four, who to keep: Eric Hosmer, Dustin Ackley, Michael Pineda and Mike Trout? We start three outfielders and two utility. – @TheRKG
Hosmer has had a spectacular rookie campaign hitting .286 with 17 homers, 69 RBI,. 56 runs and a surprising 10 steals. If he swipes 15 bases a season that will be an immense boost to his fantasy value at a position that sports, to be kind, few speed demons. However, a .285-25-90-80 season, while a terrific effort, leaves one well off the pace of the elite at the position, and that marks Hosmer's keeper value in this setup as low.
Ackley has been as good as advertised. Hitting .290, he's also taken his walks leading to a .367 OBP, and he's shown solid extra base power as well for a second sacker (.452 SLG). If we take his production from 76 games this year and double it we'd end up with a second baseman hitting .290 with 12 homer, 68 RBI, 74 runs and eight steals. Those numbers would put him in contention for being a top-15 second baseman.
Pineda has been as good as advertised this year. Yes he's had a bit of a rough go of late, but he's still posted 171 Ks in 167 innings, has limited batters to a .208 batting average, and has a 1.08 WHIP in his 27 starts. It's not his fault that he is 9-10 (thank his teammates anemic hitting). With a year under his belt next season, there's no reason to expect any fall off in his production, and the team just might turn him loose for 200 innings as well.
Trout probably has more talent than anyone on this list, and that's saying something. The uber-talented outfielder can't legally buy a beer yet, but he has five homers, 15 RBI and 18 runs scored over just 100 at-bats. However, the Angels have Bobby Abreu, Torii Hunter and Peter Bourjos in the outfield, and if Kendrys Morales returns to action next year, that means the DH spot will be filled by him or Mark Trumbo. As you can see, there is still a chance that Trout will not open the year with the big league club so that he can gain a little more experience in the minors. Regardless, since this league starts only three outfielders, it's nearly impossible to suggest keeping Trout.
I'm gonna pass on Trout – he's not likely to be a top-30 outfielder next season. I'd pass on Hosmer – I don't think he's going to be a top-10 first baseman either. So it's Ackley or Pineda. Since I'm of the opinion that pitching is variable, and since a single thrown ball can end a pitchers season, I'd settle on Ackley who could be an up the middle star as soon as next year.
Keeping Roy Halladay & Matt Kemp. Can you pick two more from Yovani Gallardo, Michael Bourn, Brian McCann, John Axford, Ben Zobrist and David Ortiz? – @JonMize1978
Having a better pitcher/hitter combo will be hard to find, so you're in great shape there.
Gallardo has won 16 games with 183 Ks, a 3.66 ERA and a 1.24 WHIP. He's inconsistent as all hell, but in the end, the production simply cannot be argued with (there are only four pitchers in the NL with 16 wins and 180 Ks – Clayton Kershaw, Cliff Lee, Halladay and Gallardo).
Bourn has 52 steals to lead baseball, his third straight season with at least 50 swipes. He's also recorded at least 84 runs for the third straight season, and for the second time in three years it looks like he will hit at least .285 (he's batting .301 right now). He's an elite performer at what he does.
McCann is as consolid a hitter at the catchers' position as you're going to find. He's hit 23 homers this year, his fourth straight season of at least 21 and the fifth time in six years he has done that. He's also just four RBI away from a sixth straight season of 70 RBI. There isn't a more consistent power bat in the game behind the dish.
Axford has been stupendous this year with a 2.16 ERA and 42 saves for the Brewers. His last blown save was on April 18th.
Zobrist qualifies in the outfield and at second base, and that is always a nice bonus. He's also had a fantastic fantasy season as he's hit .274 with 15 homers, 82 RBI, 88 runs and 17 steals. Mind you, this is the second time in three seasons that he will go .270-15-80-85-15. As of this writing only four players have done that twice the past three years – Carlos Gonzalez, Matt Kemp, Ryan Braun and Zobrist.
Ortiz is having a fantastic season, he's on the cusp of his first .300-30-100 season since 2007 (he is hitting .313 with 29 homers and 92 RBI). However, he'll be 36 next year, has never been a paragon of physical fitness, and he hit .264, .238 and .270 the past three years. Throw in the fact that he only qualifies at DH, and he has limited value.
If I'm protecting four players, only one of them is going to be a pitcher, so Gallardo is out. As great as McCann is, I just don't trust catchers to stay healthy, so I wouldn't protect him either. Closers come and go each season, so Axford is out. I love Ortiz and his happy go lucky attitude, but I'm not keeping a DH. That leaves me with Bourn, a truly elite stolen base performer, and Zobrist who is a much better hitter than anyone gives him credit for.
Colby Lewis on waivers - worth a pick up? – @Robert6286
Colby has won 12 games for the second straight year though his performance has slipped a hair (his ERA has gone from 3.72 to 4.29 and his WHIP from 1.19 to 1.23). Four starts ago his ERA was 3.83 though, but he's been hit hard over his last four outings leading to 19 earned runs in 21.1 innings for an 8.02 ERA. Normally I would say something like "it's only four starts, things will even out," and though I still believe that, we don't have much time left this year for that stuff to even out. What that means is you need to manage your team differently than you do in May, and by that I mean you have to be looking at each step you take versus focusing on where the steps will take you.
Lewis is a solid hurler who has actually pitched slightly better in the second half of the season (4.15 ERA, 1.21 WHIP) than the first (4.38 and 1.24). Still, he is in the middle of a bad spell right now. His next scheduled start is the 17th in Seattle then the 24th at home against Seattle. You really can't ask for two better match-ups. So do you start a pitcher with great match-ups, or do you look at his recent work on the bump and run for the hills? I'd let your place in the standings be the ultimate arbiter of that question, but I would hesitate to employ his services unless I was really in need of those innings.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Kindle Giveaway Friday--What Are You Reading?
Earlier chances to enter are HERE and HERE.
So today, instead of me telling you about a book I think you'd like, let's talk about what we're reading!
Next up for me: Marie Brennan's With Fate Conspire, which I'll be reviewing here with a giveaway, and in January we'll be doing a slow read of Patricia Briggs' first Mercy Thompson book, Moon Called. Hope you'll read with us!
Now, for the Kindle contest. Tell me what you're reading (and if you like it)...as always, four entries possible: +1 for commenting, +1 for being a blog follower (either new or longtime), +1 for being a Twitter follower @Suzanne_Johnson, and a fourth entry if you Tweet or RT the contest.
Now...what're you reading?
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- Sabrina AlexanderDecember 2, 2011 at 8:42 AM
I just started When She Woke by Hillary Jordan. I love dystopian and this one shows promise. My husband and I had an idea for a book using Lewis Grizzard's idea of color coding criminals with a dip, so of course this book's chroming jumped out at me.ReplyDelete
I am a Twitter follower and am RTing, so wish me luck.
I've just started on The Vampire, The Witch and The Werewolf: Chains of Silver by Louisa Bacio. I'm still at the beginning only, so I can't tell whether I like it or not. Haha. I've been wanting to read Jeaniene Frost's books, but there's so little time for so many books!! XPReplyDelete
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I already have a Kindle and only wanted to post what my #fridayreads currently is, so to speak.ReplyDelete
I'm reading final book of the The Dark Tower series, by the same name. It's great and very sad. The Waste Lands was one of my faves though. I hope you're enjoying them as much as I am.
Happy reading!
I just finished Switched by Amanda Hocking and didn't really like it. I felt that the character development was lacking and the plot wasn't very original.ReplyDelete
My next read is going to be a novella by Donna Ball - Christmas From Ladybug Farm. Since I've enjoyed all of the books in that series I expect to enjoy this one.
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See, I'm going to get some great new book recommendations this way!ReplyDelete
@Sabrina...I have that book in my TBR pile, and it sounds really interesting. Love the idea of color-coding criminals too--sounds like a Lewis Grizzard column. Always loved him.
@CYP...Yes, too many books and too little time. The J. Frost series is really excellent, though. Fast reads too.
@Karen. Yay, another DT reader! There's a new one (#4.5) coming out in...I'm thinking April. Guess SK couldn't resist going back into it.
@Sandy...I've been waiting to read some reviews of Amanda Hocking's books after all the hoo-hah over the big contract. Wonder if they were published as-is or if they were subjected to some editing.
I'm reading 11/22/63 (or whatever the date is) by Stephen King. I'm a little unsure what I think. I kind of like it but I've also read so many bad reviews I'm sort of waiting for it to bomb.ReplyDelete
Also reading, or trying to, A Game of Thrones. I usually love this sort of book so I don't know why I'm having such a hard time getting into it.
I also have a couple of anthologies going. One about zombies and one steampunk.
I follow the blog and on Twitter so 3 altogether.
I am reading Above the Thunder by Renee Manfredi. I am only 1/3 of the way into it but I like it so far.ReplyDelete
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I am reading Kiss of Frost right now and loving it.ReplyDelete
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My book in hand today is Hexbound by Chloe Neill.ReplyDelete
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I'm currently reading Gabriel's Inferno and almost done. I like it!ReplyDelete
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Just finished Texas Twilight by Caroline Fyffe. Absolutely loved it. Next book - Patricia Brigg's Moon Called so I can join your discussion here!ReplyDelete
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I just finished Sins of the Angels by Linda Poitevin which was great and just started Kiss of Frost by Jennifer Estep.ReplyDelete
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I've just started the shadow reader, but it sounds so nice for now.ReplyDelete
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I'm reading Vampyrnomicon (book 2 of the vampire hunters trilogy) by Scott M. Baker.ReplyDelete
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Right now I am reading Catching Fire.ReplyDelete
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I am currently re-reading Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare and loving it! It's my favourite in the I-Team series and I highly recommend this series to anyone looking for Romantic Suspense reads!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 7:45 PM
just finished , if you eahr her by shiloh walker... fixing to read dead head by rosemary harrisReplyDelete
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I am reading Fate's Edge by Ilona Andrews and enjoing every second of it.ReplyDelete
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I'm currently reading my own manuscript because I'm in the middle of editing ;) But as for commercial fiction, I'm getting ready to start the audio book of Stephen King's latest (11/22/63). I've heard very good things about it so far! Plus, being a history person, I love anything that has to do with the possible implications of changing historical events.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 11:21 AM
This week I finished "Dead Iron" by Devon Monk (excellent!) & "Sins of the Angels" by Linda Poitevin (started slow, but I was PEEVED when it ended because I want Book 2 NOW).ReplyDelete
Almost done reading "Power of Six" by Pittacus Lore.
Next up is "Street Game" by Christine Feehan (which I may end up throwing across the room due to my reaction to previous Game series books).
Must add the J. Frost books to my TBR pile. I continue to see good comments about them!
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Thanks for the giveaway! I am reading Stone Cold Seduction by Jess Macallan. I am really liking it! I recently finished Switched by Amanda Hocking and thought it was pretty good for a YA book. I disagree with Sandy. It's about trolls, how much more original can you get? +1 for comment +1 GFC follower email@example.com
I am currently reading the dystopian book All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin.ReplyDelete
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I JUST read Only Yours by Susan Mallery and am getting ready to read One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost.ReplyDelete
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I'm reading Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta. Loving it so far!
yay for Bones!! I still need to read book #6 :(ReplyDelete
Right now I'm reading a book called Hex, A witch and angel tale by Ramona Wray. It's YA and interesting so far.
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Thoughts on raw milk
Posted by Brad Yeckley on 06/24 at 07:00 AM
I grew up drinking raw whole milk from a dairy farm that was literally a stone's throw away from my childhood home. On occasion I was annoying enough to garner the attention of the farm workers. On these days I was able to help in the entire milking process. At the time, I had no idea what raw meant and even if I did I'm not sure it would have mattered. My habits changed over time and I became a skim only kind of guy. Recently however, I have made the switch back to raw milk as a result of some research that I've been doing.
Now I want to preface everything that follows by stating that I am not writing this to convince anybody that they need to immediately change what they are doing, or how they are eating. If you read my previous blog post about awareness you know that I am always trying to open eyes while not forcing hands. Instead I want to disseminate some information that I found useful, and arm you with a few resources that can be utilized in order to help you make a more informed decision regarding your choices. I have no intention on arguing for against the raw milk debate. I drink raw milk, my wife does not. We still get along just fine.
Why raw milk? I prescribe to the doctrine that our food sources should be left in the most natural state possible for consumption. Milk consumption has been traced back as far as 7,500 years, and pasteurization has been prevalent for only about 2 percent of that overall time. I personally feel that raw milk tastes better and is better served for cooking purposes. Additionally, as a primal living advocate, I am able to have a more personal connection with the raw milk that I consume. I know that sounds weird, but humor me for a moment. You can't just wander into the local Uni-Mart, grab a gallon of raw milk, drink it without ever considering where it came from, or how it was produced. Raw milk being unpasteurized, and not as readily available, forces a consumer to be more aware of how the milk was sourced and how the animals are treated. Large scale dairy farms and other comparable milk producers are forced to use hormones and other un-natural components in order to increase milk production. I am of the opinion that these little "extras" are not so good for me.
As stated earlier, I did not write this with the intention of argument for or against. This is just one man's point of view with regard to getting our lives back to basics; one glass of milk at a time.
I personally purchase my raw milk from Natures Panty in State College and during the summer months will occasionally purchase from one of the local farmers markets (Home Depot on Saturdays/Downtown on Fridays) but only if I can speak with the farmer about his/her practices and commitment to natural and un-altered milk production.
The first link below is to the Facebook page of the farm that produces a majority of the raw milk that I buy, and the second link is to a resource that I feel takes a very good non-biased look at raw milk and the two sides of the pasteurization debate.
Happy Cow Naturals LLC.
Pasteurization and Raw Milk
Even if you decide not to give raw milk a shot, I hope that I will have at least convinced you to give a little more thought to where your food comes from and how it got to your table or glass.
Move around as much as possible, chew slowly and play in the dirt……….bye.
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Obama's much anticipated speech on climate change delivered today at Georgetown University in Washington DC was full of highs and lows. Since his election many hoped he'd be a leader on environmental concerns, but the last five years have mostly been disappointing — gains in renewables and fuel efficiency are worth noting, but his allegiance to an "all of the above" energy strategy is foolhardy at best.
His new plan included three main goals. The first is to cut carbon pollution by directing the EPA "to work closely with states, industry and other stakeholders to establish carbon pollution standards for both new and existing power plants." This is a noble and necessary goal but will be politically challenging to say the least, even though Obama did his best to shame the GOP and its industry friends.
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The most notable parts of his speech were where he touched on "controversial" topics such as the Keystone XL pipeline and natural gas. He reaffirmed his commitment to wanting to go with burning "cleaner natural gas instead of dirtier fuel sources." We can only assume the dirty stuff here is coal, but he tactfully avoided saying so directly. Of course he failed to talk about the dirty and dangerous process of extracting gas via fracking — the technology responsible for our current gas boom that Obama proudly mentioned numerous times.
He touted the jobs that this industry would create, "jobs that can't be shipped overseas," but he failed to mention that the product being produced can and will be shipped overseas — energy independence be damned.
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10. This is the biggie: of all the bulk data that NSA took in, from the end of 2001-2007, humans listened to or read the content associated with 2,612 domestic telephone numbers and about 300 domestic email addresses. That's 8 percent of the universe of selectors in the program (the other end being the foreign terminals of the conversation).
11. The NSA had installed equipment at company-controlled sites, and these selectors were sent to NSA reps at these sites, who filtered this content into the NSA databases FROM the external sites. (These would be, I assume, switches at major telecom facilities.). Once finished intelligence analyses were completed, the NSA's compliance officers reviewed each product to verify that minimization procedures were followed
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Laser-powered carbon nanotube exploding drug grenades
Let me just say that one more time: laser-powered carbon nanotube exploding drug grenades. We have them.
A drug grenade is exactly what you think it is: something that explodes and releases drugs into your body. Since swallowing a lit fuse doesn't usually work that well (not to mention the horrid aftertaste), researchers have been looking for other ways to perform targeted drug delivery, and laser-activated grenades made of carbon nanotubes just might be the answer.
Since carbon nanotubes are tubes, it's fairly easy to fill them with things, and researchers from the University of Rochester have suggested that it would be possible to mix drugs with water and seal them up inside nanotubes to make little druggy pipe-bombs. To set them off, you'd heat the nanotube capsule with an infrared laser, causing the water to instantly boil. The huge increase in pressure from the boiling water would bust the nanotube open, releasing the drugs stored inside.
The clever part to this idea is that you could take these drug-laced grenades by the fistful, but they'd only go off where the infrared laser was targeted, making it possible to deliver drugs just exactly where and when you wanted them and nowhere else.
This is all just in simulation so far, and as you might imagine, there are still a few potential kinks to be worked out with this technology. Say, for example, determining whether setting off a bunch of nanogrenades inside your body might, you know, damage some stuff that would be better off not being damaged. If it works out, however, it could offer new ways to treat all kinds of things, with a precision that's never been available before.
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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bowring, Sir John
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Bowring, Sir John (1792-1872). -- Linguist, writer, and traveller, was b. at Exeter. His talent for acquiring languages enabled him at last to say that he knew 200, and could speak 100. He was appointed editor of the Westminster Review in 1824; travelled in various countries with the view of reporting on their commercial position; was an M.P. 1835-37 and 1841-49, and held various appointments in China. His chief literary work was the translation of the folk-songs of most European nations, and he also wrote original poems and hymns, and works on political and economic subjects. B. was knighted in 1854. He was the literary executor of Jeremy Bentham (q.v.).


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How to Keep Your Hummus Humming
By Lari Robling - September 23rd, 2011
Obviously, we're not making 5 gallons of hummus at a time as Chef Solomonov does at Zahav. So, you'll have to come up with your own quantities that work for you. Also, the quality of the chickpeas and tahini can vary so keep that in mind as well. Here's a guideline, though!
To Cook the Beans
Soak the chickpeas (a pound is about 2 cups) overnight covered in water with about ¼ teaspoon of baking soda. Drain, rinse and cover with water and a fresh pinch of baking soda. Simmer gently for two to three hours or until the beans are tender. Drain.
Tags: Chef Mike Solomonov, chickpeas, hummus, tahini, Zahav