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| Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 | |
| 11:20 am | Communication Back in December, S. was reincarcerated, and shortly thereafter I paid $10 to receive a phone call from him in which he asked for a money order to purchase shampoo and so on, which I sent. Yesterday I was invited to pay $10 for another phone call, but I declined. Today I mailed a card: Dear S., I'm sorry that I refused your phone call, but $10 is a lot for me to pay to get a phone call unless it's an emergency. I'm enclosing a money order to help you in managing your life. I continue to pray for your strength and progress. God loves you. I pray that you feel that power and support as you work for freedom. Grace and peace, Mary Ann |
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| Thursday, January 7th, 2010 | |
| 6:32 pm | The PPF It's customary in intro economics courses to introduce a Production Possibility Frontier as a graphical depiction of combinations of goods (and services) that could be produced with all an economy's resources fully employed. The axes are typically, even stereotypically, labeled "guns" and "butter." Maybe it would be good to label them "life" and "death." But of course even that leaves out the dynamic consequences. |
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| Monday, January 4th, 2010 | |
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| Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | |
| 6:42 pm | I melt and am alarmed This evening I asked Chun Woo why he had been talking lately about when he has children, sometime in future.* He said, "It's because of you, Ummah. Because of how you sing about me, and how you talk about me, and how you are with me." *He has also been thinking about being a married man, married to his La Petite colleague Jolie nearly a year ago. "I am going to marry you in five days," she announced, and then in five days, on her birthday, she announced that they were married. When he's been remembering it lately, he says, "We're separated now. That's the way life goes, sometimes." He has taken a small metal clasp ring off something which he is wearing on his thumb as a wedding ring, even though Jolie hasn't one. |
| Sunday, December 27th, 2009 | |
| 5:36 pm | NMK On Thursday afternoon, Chun Woo and I visited the Bs, in order to see the model village they had set up around their Christmas tree. They had had the Lions Club. They had had a garden club (IS has two, rival-and-feuding garden clubs). They had had the Chamber of Commerce. Because having created such a marvel, they felt it a public benefit to share it. Our visit gave them pleasure, and I was glad. But I so seriously have no feel for this sincere, but, to me, bizarre motivation that I can't begin to express it. My best stab so far is that there's some analogy with the Edifying Christian Displays of Camels that puzzled me last year. |
| 4:15 pm | The gender and smartness thing Many thanks to all who so generously answered my question. Special thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} wcg whose answer tipped me off to the true answer to my speculation: femaleness is just one instance of structurally-enforced socioeconomic disadvantage in a hierarchical system. Being a Marine recruit, for instance, is another.How could I have forgot the striking instance of excited linguistic thinking they'd found a Women's Language, only to learn that they'd found the linguistic habits of one of many subordinate demographic groups? Still more, how could I have forgot the incredibly intense insistence that bright African Americans were a sort of crippled unicorn, so endemic in the time and place I grow up? Thanks, y'all. |
| Saturday, December 26th, 2009 | |
| 9:03 am | Query I'd be appreciative of answers to both of the first two questions, the third if you're willing, the fourth if it's relevant. 1. Are you typically identified as male or female? (Yep, this is outside-in. And I know that the answer "Yes" is possible-- it's just not useful to me.) 2. Have you ever been told that you have a problem in that you're too bright or educated? 3. Has that happened often? 4. If your from-the-outside gender identification has changed (or changes regularly due to your presentation), does that seem to affect how often you're told you're flawed by excess intelligence or education? Thanks for considering responding. |
| Thursday, December 10th, 2009 | |
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| Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 | |
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| Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 | |
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| Monday, December 7th, 2009 | |
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| 10:39 am | Chun Woo's the Sixth Day in his workplace Christmas pageant, but I don't think it's like this. On the twelfth day of Christmas,  amaebi sent to me...Twelve skinks hiking Eleven tortillas wyoming Ten earthworms a-cooking Nine books camping Eight walruses a-gardening Seven carpenters a-pudding Six oysters a-fishing Five be-e-e-ell hooks Four richard valantasis Three dyspeptic theologians Two obscure universalists ...and a rodomontade in a 'satiable curtiosity. |
| Sunday, December 6th, 2009 | |
| 7:55 pm | An interesting weekend 1. Because I screwed up with my calendar, Chun Woo and I were at a community (IS-churches-sponsored) concert on Saturday night to benefit Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity. ( My screw-up and why it went this way. ) 2. It was a good concert. And it earned $800 for Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity, nearly 1% of what they need to build in Clear Creek County. For Idaho Springs, that's lots. 3. This morning's church council meeting opened with the financial report. We have about $700 in checking and about $600 in savings, and though we have some funds in stocks to pull down, this is a bad fiscal situation, leading to finance's budget and recommendation that the pastor's contract go to half-time. ( But it was a meeting of hope and energy. ) 4. After that we had a nominations meeting, where we plot out who might be invited to help in church leadership through committees in the coming year. We had enough volunteers in advance that we weren't scraping around. And the committee enjoyed the work-- they're all up for coming back to work on this next year. (That does mean that we have to make sure we're open to more participation from the floor. It's not a gang-- it's a party. Come play!) 5. And we are going to have a new members class of a number of members in 2010. There is demand from our people, and others who didn't demand want to come play. You know, this is all a big change from last year. Our finances suck, but I really think we're making progress. |
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| Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 | |
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| Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 | |
| 8:53 am | Chun news There's a new and thrillin' Chunpost up at http://thomaschunwoo.livejournal.co |
| Friday, November 27th, 2009 | |
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| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | |
| 11:06 am | Large and small Even as subatomic particles begin to collide and potentially teach us more about the minutest foundation of the vast cosmos, people prepare for family nitpicking torment over Thanksgiving's festal table. |
