December 2009
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November 2009
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“I fear that for too many believers, spiritual discipline turns into a...”
– Bill Hybels, in Too Busy Not to Pray. As Advent begins today, I want to avoid fulfilling this description of the ritualized Christian. Instead, I will try to genuinely and lovingly prepare for this exciting Christmas season!
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Dear Journal, 11-23-92
Yesterday I got a diary. And every place I went with it they (-> my sisters) kept bothering me and trying to figure out where I was going to put it but finally I found a private place to write and they don’t have a clue where I put it.
You’re a stealthy one, Thirdgradeself. Even I have no idea where you put it, since you were crafty enough to leave no written record of this...
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One month from today... →
I can already feel the swinging ocean beneath my feet and the salty smell of days at sea… CRUISETIME! Despite my two younger sisters reuniting in Germany in a couple days for a wonderful Thanksgiving week voyage, I can’t get too jealous because soon we’ll be sailing away into the cheezy wonderland of American vacationculture ON A BOAT. Really can’t wait. It’s been...
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11th grade Yearbook
“Colleen,
Ya, math lab quizes sucked, probably your fault. Hopefully calc. will be funner. Your AP Chem egg drop thing beat mine :( and I wanted to show you up with my mouse trap car, but you skiped. have a good summer.”
Is it possible to simultaneously feel this dorky yet very cool at the same time? That’s how I feel about the 11th grade me portrayed here. Egg drop thing:...
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Savory Squirrel
I was just about to harass my sister during a Facebook chat for a topic to blog about, when she surprised me with this lil’ gem:
9:49pm”Kristen
We ate dinner at cousin gordies now patrick is working
they cooked the squirrel
i didnt eat it though”
WHA??!?! I had seen that my brother-in-law had fiercely downed 7 squirrels over the weekend, but it was beyond my imagination that a...
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Dear Journal, 11-10-92
On Sunday I got to go to my Grandma La boots. It was fun. We had pizza for dinner and it came thirty-five minutes early! We had choclate pudding for dessert. After that we played a game of yahtzee. I won 1st place with 284 points., And Grandma - 2nd place with 201. I can’t remember what my sisters had. Before I went to grandma’s house we went for a walk in the subdivision with our...
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Mainstream Media Microbiology?
Yesterday I was surprised to come across TWO entertaining storylines based on different ruthless microbes that I should know much more about: Toxoplasma gondii and Clostridium botulinum. At this point, I’ll take any opportunity to review the thousands of factoids that I’ll be responsible for knowing cold later this year, so I welcomed the nerdy theme to my evening entertainment.
The...
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How to dress up like a Seahorse
1. Receive the following invitation to a bizarro medical school party:
“Your under-the-sea-murder-mystery role has been assigned. You are: A Seahorse.Seahorses are strange. They are small, but command respect. Quirky and distracting, they accomplish a lot…but for good or evil???”
2. Do your homework. This involved texting Kristen for a color palette suggestion: “Tan or...
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What were you doing during Winter 2004?
NERD ALERT.
BIOL124 - Physiology and Ecology w/Lab
BIOL125 - Physiology and Ecology Lab
ENGL222 - American Indian Literatures
FREN201 - Intermediate French
MUSC222 - Piano
PED069 - Individual Fitness
PED071 - Weight Training
RELG225 - Classical Judaism
In order to apply for the Master of Public Health degree program, I must manually enter every single college course I’ve ever taken...
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“These days, most new hospitals in Southern California resemble medium-rent...”
– Excerpt from Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. Jon has been on a BIG reading kick ever since Tigers baseball season ended, and is currently eating up this Koontz novel. He’s gone through The Giver, The Outsiders, The Screwtape Letters and Valis (Philip K. Dick) within a few short weeks. I’m...
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And the giving continued! Thanks, B.Good
Last night I intercepted a food delivery man while approaching the apartment where our Jesus&TheBenjamins bible study group meets every Tuesday. I had no idea that food had been ordered for our session, but was thrilled at the surprise and ready to happily chip in.
As I walked in behind him, I realized everyone else was surprised by this mobile feast too, except our hostess Mikael, who was...
Oh the generosity!
Tonight’s topic in the biblical financial study I’ve been taking for several weeks now is GIVING, and I think it only fitting that Google has announced it will be giving holiday travelers some internet this year. How convenient - and yet brilliantly business savvy!
May I be so boldly wise in discerning giving strategies with Jon over the next …. lifetime or so. It ain’t...
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Rubbing Elbows with the Law →
Massachusetts is a fabulous state to live in as national healthcare reform evolves. By no means am I a knowledgeable healthpolicywonk, but several great health law advocacy opportunities have presented themselves over the past year and a half. For example, tomorrow I am so lucky to be able to attend the annual benefit breakfast of Boston’s HealthLawAdvocates, run through the impressively...
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A Happy and a Crappy
Back in the days of high-school advising, we would often start off Monday’s homeroom session with “Happys and Crappys”, where each gal had a chance to share something lovely and something not so lovely from her weekend. Giving 11th grade girls the opportunity to proclaim their personal experiences aloud is a gold mine for getting their attention quickly, but then devolves into...
Guess the health profession
Marsupialization
Dentigerous
Inspissated
Ameloblastic
Enucleation
My notes are filled with words one step away from Icelandic. Just another day in bizarro lectureland!
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If you're not using this, you're wasting MONEY
During the madness of wedding planning in 2008, I made more online purchases than ever before in an effort to save time, save moolah, and just be all modern about things. I distinctly remember ordering personalized M&M’s and being SO annoyed at how instantly consumer-crazed I had become and how I would NEVER waste money on such a thing if I were truly thinking clearly (incidentally, they...
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“Colleen: I had some tasty Combos earlier!
Jon: Yeah, me too. I don’t...”
– Silly Costco tricked me into buying a big multi-pak of Combos, and I just cracked up when Jon responded that their health deficits weren’t worth the crispy indulgence. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the healthiest hubby there is - thanks for keeping us fit and happy. :) Love you!
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Dentistry elects its own first black president!
Returning from an exhausting and wonderful Chicago weekend late last night, I couldn’t help but flip through our accumulated junk mail and magazines. WHAT DID I MISS WHILE WE WERE GONE?
Turns out the world of dentistry has been busy, ever since its annual conference gathered twenty-five THOUSAND members in Hawaii, by installing Dr. Gist of Michigan as the first African-American...