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  • A whirlwind of a weekend. You know you're heading for the stratosphere when you have to play in second position on your E string in order to match your pianist's g sharp. Take off your glasses before applying eye makeu…

  • In his sermon today my pastor said this, that odd as it sounds to say so, every problem is at root a theological problem. Much of what we call mental problems, personality disorders, and relationship problems, are just t…

  • In Westminster Abbey, among the graves of the great, there lies an unknown soldier of the first world war, one of many nameless dead. His epitaph has haunted me since I first read it. This is the latter half. Thus are …

  • Blogging becomes an irresistible temptation between the hours of 9 and 11 pm when Emily has posted links to some lovely and highly diverting blogs and you're studying an empire whose kings had names like Assur-uballit, S…

  • I'm emailing the Callihans to register for Summer Academy. I'm almost afraid to say it. I'm coming and I couldn't be more joyful.

  • I got my first paper back, and Dr. Fitzgibbon has written thereupon, "Bravo!" Then underneath, "Please consider majoring in history. You show great promise." Now I ask you, why not something like this: "Bravo! Majoring …

  • I've just written two-thirds of an essay on friendship (for fun) when I ought to have been preparing for a quiz, a midterm, and a paper all due within the next six days. I felt rather like Jeremiah . . . I couldn't shut …

  • Alders/Will, you gentlemen have my vote.

  • It never registered with me before, not until Pastor Withington pointed it out yesterday, that in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Aslan didn't die for all Narnia. He didn't die for most of Narnia, or even just a f…

  • Did you know you can burn chocolate chip cookies in the microwave? In a mere twenty seconds? I didn't.

  • a thunderstorm, honey ginseng green tea, chocolate chip cookies, hildegard von bingen, and a paper to write about ancient Greeks and Hebrews and their philosophy of war if I weren't so sleepy this would be wonderful

  • Alexander the Great was probably in a mood like this when he decided to conquer the world.

  • It seems the gods have willed that for the third consecutive year I won't watch the All Star game. I was watching Kent, Kyle, and Eddie fry roaches this time last year (July 19 entry). Today I've been reading Thucydides …

  • Over breakfast: Erin: look at the little goldfinch couple on the feeder!Eddie: what makes you think they're a couple?Erin: look at them eating togetherEddie: huh, that must make me a polygamist

  • "I do apologize. I took a plate of bacon out of the microwave with my bare hand, and in my ensuing antics inadvertantly hung up on you." - Kent

  • Have you ever tried to sightread by candlelight? There's nothing sight about it. I'm sure Beauty and the Beast never sounded so much Beast and so little Beauty. I know of no experience comparable to standing, violin in h…

  • Back in school . . . glad it's not at Campbell. It's going to take all my will power to get me back to the Campbell campus this August. I will be taking only fourteen or fifteen credits. I wonder what that feels like. …

  • WAHOO for way-cool bands and spectacular firework displays and wacky cousins!

  • Abundant in Kindness This afternoon I was looking up references for "kindness" in the concordance at the back of my Bible, and one of the references was for Nehemiah 9. I flipped back and read the whole chapter. How can…

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