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| 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 | |
| 11:23 am | |
| 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. |
| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | |
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 | |
| 8:31 pm | |
| 3:03 pm | From the inside of the cornucopia Here's the impression I get about what unchurched folks who ask the church for help think we have here: -chests of money -lots of Safeway cards, maybe presented to us gratis by Safeway -thousands of cell phone minutes card, analogously ditto -vouchers for local motels, analogously ditto -a wide assortment of clothing -oodles of Bibles -a pastor who moons around moaning, "I wish I had something to DOOOOOOO!" |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | |
| 5:12 am | Odd encounter Yesterday I went to a transition facility for parolees, to drop off a public transit pass. While I waited for my guy-- who turned out to be checked out for another hour and a half-- another bored resident came over to talk. He said he wished he got visitors, and gave me his name for me to see whether I might be able to arrange for someone to come see him. He said that he was from Aurora, but didn't like it-- that the women there were no good, that he "wanted to marry a good Christian woman." He said that he had several children but had never been married; he was 23. And shortly afterwards he was exchanging the glad eye, then off flirting with another visiting woman considerably more raffish-looking than I. :D How funny to realize that I had most likely been a casual mark for someone trying to find a sugar mama or "sugar mama." (Of course, I have emailed my closest prison ministry acquaintance to see whether she can refer.) |
| Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | |
| 5:39 am | goodsearch.com pernishus kindly asked whether people not in my church could use the search engine www.goodsearch.com and benefit the church I pastor. Sure thing!Just go to http://www.goodsearch.com/ when you want to do a websearch. Beneath the logo and underneath the search box, you should see a leedle grey strip with white letters spelling "who do you goodsearch for?" Beneath that is a box for entering the name of your chosen beneficiary, which should initially contain the words "enter your charity here ..." Enter "United Church of Idaho Springs" and then press the yellow button labeled "Verify" underneath. That should get you to a page like the one you began on, but with "United Church of Idaho Springs (Idaho Springs, CO)" in the "who do you goodsearch for?" space. After that, all websearches (powered by Yahoo!) accrue credit for the church, which is paid after September each year. That is, as long as they add up to more than $20. You can also use goodsearch.com as a shopping portal to quite a few retailers and thus accrue a small percentage of purchase prices for the United Church or other goodsearch charity of your choice. The list includes amazon, Hewlett Packard, eBay, Apple, L.L.Bean, and many others. |
