Twenty-seven. A guy at church said last night that I’m pushing thirty. If so, it’s gonna be a long push…
One of the best birthday presents I received yesterday was the feeling of TURNING IN MY AQUINAS PAPER! It hasn’t quite sunk in yet that I don’t have to deal with that class [...]
… is finally being written. My Thanksgiving “break” (I don’t usually have classes on Thursdays or Fridays, anyway) has been spent writing the term paper for a summer class that I “incompleted” a few months ago. While I was rereading my resources (again) the other day, I realized that I had started this [...]
Read this news story (and this one) about six Muslims’ recent travel experience in this great country.
This story bothers me for a few reasons.
Some passenger felt so threatened by these men standing and saying their evening prayers that the passenger slipped a note to a flight attendant. If, perchance, these guys were in fact [...]
Updates on the neighbor’s dogs:
Today, one dog laid all day long in my nice, big pile of leaves in the front yard. He must have thought it was his new bed. Bagging of leaves and general intimidation occurred, but not in that order.
What’s more, the dogs left us two new presents: a [...]
The next time I buy a house, if it’s mid-October, somebody stop me. Tell me to wait until at least December, or maybe even until March. It’s not that I mind raking all that much, really – and, to be fair, Tara did rake the front yard (see below) before I did the [...]
