There is being helpful, and then there is being crazy. Elise and I are the latter. Volunteering to cook for the ASU Lutheran Campus Ministry dinner theater sounded straightforward—pasta with a wine-tomato meat sauce, salad, bread, and cheesecake, enough for 300 people. Simple, no?
No. Sixty-one pounds of cream cheese and nine dozen eggs is never [...]
Archive for March, 2008
a plethora of cheesecake
Posted in church, life on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
misunderstood at sonic
Posted in life, pop culture on March 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For those of you not blessed to be in the vicinity of a Sonic drive-up, it’s a fast food restaurant at which you pull up to a little kiosk and order your food instead of going inside to eat.
Me: I’d like a large fries, please.
Sonic guy through garbled speaker: Larrr eye?
Me: Uh, yeah.
Sonic guy: One [...]
culturally evangelical
Posted in church, culture, theology on March 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A caveat: This blog serves the purpose of providing a space to practice articulating my thoughts clearly in writing as I embark on the experience of writing a masters thesis. Several of my readers identify themselves as evangelicals, and so I wish to state that I mean no offense to them directly—this is merely my [...]
nostalgia
Posted in life on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sitting here at my desk with the curtains pushed back and the window open suddenly reminded me of sunny mornings living in the House of Seven Girls during college.
I definitely would not recommend living with that many females in one house, ever, if only because of excess estrogen and all the general unpleasantness resulting from [...]
drivin’ down the 101
Posted in life on March 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just got back from a fabulous four days with Elise in my native land of California. Despite Elise being sick and Clara being out of alignment and me still recovering from back problems and the lingering effects of a cold, we had a great time. The Central Coast and Bay Area are green and flowering [...]
forced vacation
Posted in life on March 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Not the most auspicious of weeks, this. I was in bed all day on Friday with flu symptoms which quickly appeared and just as quickly disappeared (well, except for the residual sore throat) and today I have remained horizontal on my floor because it hurts to be in any other position. Sitting, standing all the [...]
