December 2011
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The best year of my life.
Last year I took a course called Survey of Worldviews. Each week we wrote three short opinion papers on topics such as the meaning of life or the existence of God. I was having at least one existential crisis a week! I would get together often with my friend Mike to talk about all of these crazy topics. I had the class with my friends Lulu and Mike’s roommate David. Often times David and...
Every minute I wait here in the airport feels like another whole semester! Just a few more minutes & David will be in my arms!
“There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.”
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Three Three Three!!
Three years ago today I became the proud aunt of this handsome young boy! The happiest of happy birthdays belongs to Jay-Jay my love, Jacen my nephew, on today, his third of at least 120 more birthdays!
I wub you, Jay-Jay!
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Instead of playing hold music while my problem was being fixed, my AT&T tech support asked how my day was going & chatted for five minutes.
This morning I lent my car scraper to a man trying to get ice off his car with his shoe. These are desperate times.
November 2011
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Counting the seconds until my hot date tonight with a handsome young man! (By hot I mean play & by young I mean 2 & by man I mean nephew!)
I love it when my boyfriend calls just to say he’s thinking of me— in the middle of a half marathon, on the top of a volcano, in Guatemala.
Spending quality time with James & his giant peach trying to remember if he survives while my sick body tries to remember how to survive.
If I were in your shoes, I’d be in the same boat.
October 2011
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I wonder how many times my signing into skype has distracted students viewing a presentation on a projector in a class of someone I know.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Today one teacher asked if I was a mom, another asked if I was a sub, then a student asked if I was a high schooler. You can’t win ‘em all.
At kid’s church tonight the theme was bikes & the holy spirit being your tandem partner. The hour quickly turned into a Q & A of my summer!
“I want to be a hotdog when I grow u— I mean, uh, for Halloween.” I love working with five year olds!
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
6:20pm. Hastily packing...
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in...”
– Albert Einstein
‘We hear only half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, believe only half of that, & remember only half of that.’
Today consisted of 3 hours of arts & crafts, a birthday party, a speech on intimacy, swing dance, & a man’s collection of skinned roadkill.
September 2011
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WatchRon Kopicko on “Abstract Apologetics”
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Gimme some space!
According to Judy Burgoon’s Expectancy Violations Theory (EVT), in American culture, generally, during interactions between people:
Intimate distance is about 0 to 18 inches.
Personal distance is about 18 in. to 4 ft.
Social distance is about 4 ft. to 10 ft.
Public distance is about 10 feet to infinity.
Burgoon’s theory was developed after Edward Hall’s study of Proxemics, the study of...
You know you’re too emotionally invested in your major when you’re reading about Descartes’ life & neighbors come to see why you’re yelling.
Today my 4th graders did the math & realized I was in 4th grade WHEN THEY WERE BORN. I was quickly ushered into my first day of feeling old.
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
Of course the day after I implement a strict catch-&-release protocol with spiders indoors one greets me when I wake up. I followed through!
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
Waiting anxiously at a bus stop in Ann Arbor for my long lost boyfriend with a sign reading ‘Elvis the Pelvis’ in case we don’t recognize each other!
August 2011
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Gonna pretend to be Valerie Sartor and David...
Ahhh! :-D How did it go??
Finishing my first bike ride across America on the Lewis & Clark trail, the Oregon Trail, & the Transcontinental Railroad. How historical!
Note to self: Next time have the large chocolate milkshake AFTER climbing four mountain passes, not before.
If Columbus was wrong we’ll bike off the edge of the next horizon. If Lewis & Clark were right, we’ll be on the Oregon Trail one more week!
Just finished having lunch with the guys at the fire station. Lunch was cut short because they had to go to a fire so we get to lock up!
In the middle of a small church-member-only meeting in southern Idaho. We can’t vote but we’re partaking in the coffee and brownies anyway!
When there are tears in the eyes of your potato… You’re probably in Idaho.
Just one more license plate and we’ll have seen all 50 states! Crossing our fingers to see a Rhode Island before the west coast!
July 2011
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It’s one thing to be forgotten at walmart by your family at 7 & another to be forgotten at walmart by your boyfriend on a tandem bike trip!
Ain’t no mountain high enough…
Last night was the first time I slept in a bed in two weeks (since Minnesota). I accidentally slept for 14 hours!
In case you’re wondering, S. Dakota is the land of Mt Rushmore, heat, rattlesnakes, grasshoppers, antelope, ghost towns, turtles & tourism!
12 miles to Owatonna on our tandem bike trip. We’re looking for fireflies! @owlcity
“It took awhile… but when their numbers dwindled from 50 down to 8 the other dwarfs began to suspect Hungry.”
I faced my fear and rode a real live horse! And lived!!!
June 2011
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We’re back in the states! Read about us getting in the country for free & hitchhiking our way to a wedding on the blog! http://t.co/DFwIqOP
The Free Wheel Project: Make Me Some Plans →
thefreewheelproject:
I said before I ever got on the bike that I wouldn’t plan. I’d let the routes reveal themselves, I’d follow no schedule. But everyone plans a little, things I hope to do, a date I’d like to get to a certain city by, even if its nothing firm.
I had planned to be leaving to tour again this coming…
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My boyfriend David and I are in the middle of a summer-long...
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You know you’re homeless when you put deodorant on in an alleyway behind a food co-op.