This was an interesting week. I shall divulge:
Monday: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday, observed. Meaning school was not in session. I celebrated my heritage by taking two naps, walking to and from the grocery store, and thinking about doing productive things.
Tuesday: I have to admit that this was my first ever snow day! Since Dordt never cancels classes and Tucson never needs to, I'd never gotten a day off school that wasn't scheduled before. Because the roads were so icy still, apparently, school was closed for the day, but I didn't find that out until after I arrived there at 7:30, dressed to kill. But then I went back home and did many of the same things I did on Monday (see above).
Wednesday: Funny mostly because while I was working on trying to get the Internet to work at school, one of the senior students in the room asked me if I would go to the Valentine's Banquet with him. Naturally I said yes, on the condition that I come completely drunk and inappropriately dressed. Oh, and I watched American Idol for the first time ever that night and wanted to tear out my own uvula for doing so.
Thursday: Almost exclusively boring, except I accidentally watched The OC and as punishment my dreams were full of freaky, disjointed half-stories about wild animals and carnies and such that I could publish as absurdist theater and make $10. I woke up feeling like I'd been stomped on by spiritpeople.
Friday: Found out lots of inside information on many of the students I'm working with, some really sad stories, and I'm nervous/excited to work with these students and, hopefully, have a positive impact. I also got into an in-depth debate with a couple of kids about the NFL playoffs and just how terrible the Bears actually are, except for Urlacher and the rest of the defense. Then I went out shopping alone tonight and spent an hour wandering around World Market. I think I want to live there. And I think I want a wok, real bad.
I finished Lauren Winner's Real Sex, and it was really excellent. Highly recommend it, and you don't only have to be a girl to read relationship/sex books. One of my favorite ideas, talking about chastity and the concept of fasting:
"The unmarried Christian who practices chastity refrains from sex in order to remember that God desires your person, your body, more than any man or woman ever will. With all aspects of ascetic living, one does not avoid or refrain from something for the sake of rejecting it, but for the sake of something else...for the sake of union with Christ's Body."
grace and peace
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bethy has a date for VALENTINES DAY!
(will you give him a unicorn valentine?)
Hey, Ms. Haak. I'm safely in Lynden. Apparently we're grown up. And if I had to choose a place to live in World Market, it would be the aisle where they have the champagne glass charms.
favorite lines = "celebrated my heritage"
and "stomped on by spiritpeople"
delicious
Dearest Bethie,
I am beyond ecstatic about your Valentine's Day Dance Date. It almost trumps my 64 valentines last year. Almost.
Love, Love,
Sarah Marie Sleggabee
I read 'Real Sex' this summer, and I thought it was really good too. I found it on Pastor Herm (from Covenant)'s bookshelf. I also thought it was interesting because the author goes to an Eastern Orthodox church; anyway, she was writing just-plain-wisdom.
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