home again
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I am procrastinating about my Proverbs exegesis paper and so decided that writing a blog entry is a very productive way of using procrastination time. I am home again and trying to decide what home routines I want to fall back into and which ones I want to try to break. This morning Mom and I went for a good walk by Burnaby lake. It's so nice to have wildspace within a couple of minutes walk from our front door. It was enough of a walk to break a sweat and work the muscles a bit. I think I am going to try and make it a regular thing to walk with Mom.

Last night I finished reading the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. It was a fabulous book, I sometimes forget how much I love science fiction. It made me want to go devour a bunch of Ursula K LeGuin books. I think it's probably good for my brain to read fiction on a regular basis, to get out of the heavy, thick academic stuff my brain usually gets lodged in. I think my next task will be to finish Glittering Images which instead of reflecting back my love of science, reflects back my love of theology.

I wish it was as easy to write a paper as it is to write stuff in my blog :) Unfortunately I have to actually prove what I say and can't just write about what I think. I shouldn't complain too much though, I really do love the sayings I've chosen from Proverbs 30. I love them because they capture my imagination and inspire me. They make me want to reflect on my theology around God and Wisdom and Creation. Perhaps three of my favourite theological topics. Well, I just love theology, I don't think I could pick three favourite topics.

Now it's time to procrastinate by eating lunch!

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Kat & Mary

Shannon & Kat

Indep MO adventures
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Greetings from the midwest. Things are quite the adventure here, the Community of Christ seminary is different from VST, but there are also some surprising similarities.

I'm staying sane by not taking myself too seriously. As a result of a bus conversation at least a month ago, probably longer, Kat and I travelled to three stores to find L'Oreal Colour Pulse temporary hair dye - gone in 8-10 washes. Yesterday Kat, Kat's sister Mary, and I dyed our hair. Fun times. Mine is hardly noticeable because it's so dark to start out with. I am too lazy to go throught the process of putting pictures on here, so go to:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/shanneranner/
to see pictures of us and our hair. My colour is called "Copper Blast", but there's not much blasting going on on my head in the pics. There is also a picture of a beautiful storm cloud we saw during our layover in Denver.

I will try to remember to take pictures at conference and post them.

summer?
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So it's summer, I guess. The semester is done, (my computer, by the way, was saved by my trustworthy fix-it guy, I found him by chance, in the phone book of all places, and I don't think I'd trust my computer to anyone else at this point) which means summer should be here. However, with taking three summer school classes, plus writing a "floating exegesis" paper (I think it's best you just imagine what a floating exegesis is and leave a comment with your guess) I don't really feel like summer is here for real. I've been working nearly full-time too, which doesn't help instill a summer feeling.


However, the weather has been nice, a good dose of sun, which signals summer. On Sunday afternoon we went for a hike up a "small" mountain (small still means steep which means sore muscles the next day) with a bunch of my Mom's family in Chilliwack. The view was really spectacular and spending time with my aunts, uncles, and cousins is always a good time. And I think I will have to settle on yes, summer is here, because after our hike my aunt took us all out for ice cream at a little dairy that makes its own perfect waffle cones and its own rich, creamy ice cream. We sat outside at a picnic table to eat, and I think sitting outside at a picnic table licking ice cream cones is a definite sign that summer has arrived.

Hallelujah!

computer woes
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Yesterday morning I woke up ready to finish my big christology paper, turned on my computer, and it was acting strangely. So I restarted, even stranger. So I restarted again, even stranger. I attempted to restart one last time and it was as if Windows wasn't even there. I took it to the repair shop that saved my computer's life last time, and they tell me the outlook is not good. *sigh* So I had to restart the paper today. Thankfully my teacher and the dean are very understanding. It's harder to write using the family desktop computer that I can't haul down to the quiet room by the pool like I usually do with my laptop. But I am farther along in the paper now than I was before, even though I had to re-write a bunch of it, so that is good. The repair guy said it looks like everything on my hard drive has been erased, but if he were to reformat and load windows, it looks like it would work just fine. Very frustrating. I am sad about losing my work from this semester - the last time I backed up was January. But it's all just stuff, and I am very grateful for understanding teachers and a family computer to fall back on.

Today I bought a plane ticket to go to the Graceland Seminary course that I've registered to take in Indep MO in May-June. I am excited about going, it will be nice to have a change of pace for a bit. Kat will be great company I am sure, and it will be fun to finally take a class together! There is a lot of reading to do ahead of time, and a six page paper to write beforehand, so it's a lot of work, but I think it will be worthwhile.

Time to get back to writing my paper.