1) The Phoenix heat is good for one thing and one thing only—drying clothes. The rack full of wet clothes I left out on my deck this afternoon dried in half an hour. In the shade.
2) Football is choreographed war without all the killing. I watched the Steelers/Ravens game tonight with Brian; shockingly, I actually [...]
Archive for September, 2008
observations
Posted in life on September 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
remember your baptism
Posted in theology on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I find blogger John Halton’s description of the contrast between Lutheran and evangelical spirituality to be quite illuminating in my own journey of faith.
…baptism and the Lord’s supper occupy a much more central role in Lutheran spirituality than for most other evangelicals. For most evangelicals – certainly this was my own experience – the sacraments [...]
dust storms and tree hacking
Posted in life on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life is never dull. There was a serious dust storm this evening while I taught piano on the fifth floor of the School of Music—-I watched it come from downtown Phoenix and hit Tempe with a vengeance. Tt didn’t look too bad until I walked back to the church parking lot to get my car, [...]
I am what I listen to
Posted in life on September 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This BBC article about the correlation between music preference and personality is pretty sketchy. I doubt the correlation is as strong as the article makes it sound. The musicology discussion about it on the web is pretty intriguing, however. Check out this blog, and this one.
procrastination=disaster!
Posted in language, life, music on September 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The longer I’m in graduate school, the less I feel motivated to finish. Unfortunately, it’s also true that the longer I’m in graduate school, the more urgent it becomes that I finish soon. The end of this academic year would be great, says my long-suffering advisor who just wants me to graduate already. When are [...]
imagine all the towels
Posted in culture, language, life on September 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Kenji and I amused ourselves in Strasbourg by making this video. It’s kind of an inside joke involving one of Kenji’s PC friends and a John Lennon impersonation caught on video, but we also made it because the French are so darn dramatic. Germans hotels would have been entirely more direct about towel protocol, but [...]
