SoOooo... winter hasnt started yet (though it will...very very soon), and I feel like Im pretty much settled. my room is starting to feel like home, I've chosen my classes, I've been getting to know the roomies, I've gotten IBM to fix my keyboard (or at least to say they will), and I've gotten all of my paperwork in for the bank. I even got a job... jiji... a very well paid job too: $14 and hour, for setting up computer equipement (which takes, what? 15 min when its real complicated?) and I get to choose which specific jobs I want to do out of a schedule...
aaah... it's a nice feeling...
Ah! LoL..!! it just started raining. jaja... had to happen :p!
hm... well... aside from some bad news Ive gotten from one of my friends (now I know what B meant in that blog, that friends' trouble usually affect us too) and the fact that Grandma still won't pick up the phone, everything else has gone pretty well. school gets more interesting by the minute... a lot of reading... but ah well... Im not minding it quite yet... and Im learning Greek! cool cool stuff...
I also got a really nice call from Roomba Mom giving me good news. I really appreciate it it! I used to brag about Quijote... now I don't know if I brag more about him our about you guys. jiji..
Hm.. well... its been a crazy week... its been a crazy month...
I have fallen asleep in class already... I've drank someone else's coffee... I've gotten lost in a 30ft long building...
I've also tried to get to Office Depot on my own. I went online and got directions. Bus, subway, then bus again, then walk... according to the directions. but I decide to skip the first bus and take the subway. Oh surprise... I get lost. :P I always do... grr... So a security guard gave me directions... ah...Lord... well... he tried writing on the same paper where I had my directions but his pen wouldnt work on that paper... so he used another paper. I went ahead and took the subway again (he let me in so I didnt have to pay...jiji) and after an hour I was at the last station. woohoo... but not for long. that's when I realized he had kept the directions I had wrote. so with no address, and not remembering what bus to take there, I rode the subway back and after another hour and a half, I was home. Very productive day :P!!
I was very productive the other night though... got a tentative plan for my MDiv all figured out *Imagine the Lord laughing full heartedly at me*
I think I'm doing my 2nd year paper on Paul's socio-political biases and its effect on the hmm... building?.. of Orthodoxy... Still pretty general... but I have abit to think about it. soOoOooo... Im doing Greek and Early Christianity courses... and starting the reading right away...
As for the thesis... well.. Im even more iffy about that one :P Thinking about doing something on the Apocryphal Jesus... "The Silenced Jesus" I want to call it ...lol... I have a title and Idont know what the paper is going to be...jiji... but yeah... something on how (and WHY) the Church has silenced the Historical Jesus by editing so many of His sayings. Maybe too negative as it is now.. but I just want to go into how the Church built its conception of Jesus... I think we still pick and choose... and I think its a fascinating little tendency... and I think it was a lot to do with the claims we like to make about us being the One and Only Church....
ok...
jeje...
Minino is off the phone...
:P
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Happy to hear things are settling down. Q is happy to be coming up.
You need to know that we are finally delivering your mirror to Bugs. You & your mom must be formidable shoppers...It's a great peice.
Lastly, the Taos house is coming along well & should be ready for habitation late winter or spring.Q says you are only four or five hours south in Juarez. Don't know whether you've been to Northern New Mexico, but it's a unique place. Ask Q. He spent about a month a year of his life there for about sixteen years. He says the Spanish dialect there is interesting because the community was so isolated. Also a fascinating history, it's biggest poulation boom came during the last inquisition as jewish artisans fled Mexico City to hide in the Sangre de Christos. It's the only place outside of Granada where woodworking decorations included the moslem cross, the christian cross, and the Jewish star
all on the same piece of woodwork.
Ask Q to tell you about the Cristmas eve celebrations at the pueblo, the kachina's and the shotguns. study hard. Q'sD
Awe!! So glad! :D... I hope it will match B&B's home :) jiji..
Very glad that the Taos house is also coming along so well :)! hm.. well... I think I was there once when I was little? not sure, to be honest. but yeah... I think there's family friends up there... or family? something about my great grandfather, I think Ive heard... I dont think I've met them.
That's a fascinating culture, though, that you are talking about... the first side-by-side translations of the Bible were done under the permit (and I think with the funds) of the Spanish crown... Spanish, Maghribi, and Hebrew/Sephardite (sp?). What was it that the blending of cultures was called? there's 2 names and I cant remember even one...
but hey... I bet NM has an even more interesting mix... Mexican/Jewish, Jewish/Spanish... Spanish/Native... pretty darn cool.
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