hourly update
11:05am:
i woke up this morning just in time to call my auto garage to cancel my car's apointment to have its muffler replaced. i really should get this done as soon as possible, but my financial state is begging me to wait until i rework my job situation. since then, i've spent this last hour reading the news and checking email and generally plunking around cyberspace. notable findings:
check out the BBC's Day In Pictures for today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4656041.stm.
Also, there is a new website that monitors human trafficking in southeast asia: Tipinasia.info. Here's an article on the website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4652803.stm.
4:00pm: so i guess my updates haven't exactly been hourly, but after showering and then removing the array of clothing which had been spilling out from my closet, i began my quest to finish 'a new kind of Christian' by brian mclaren. i've been going at an intense pace all day and have a chapter and a half left. ...will post further thoughts upon completion, should i have time before heading off to work. until then, news stations are now briefing that prez bush, while out bicycling as a break from his work at the g8 summit this week, collided with a local police officer. the president sustained scrapes and bruises and the officer was taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure. so, in all, the damage was minimal. the officer noted that the president was riding at a considerable speed and CNN's news reporter mentioned that it is not the first time that the president has taken a spill while bicycling :o)
5:04pm: well, i'm saving the last five pages of McLaren for tonight when i get home from work. the whole last chapter is actually the correspondence between a young woman and her mentor as she's considering seminary options and is confused as to how they might help her lead in a church setting that is vastly different from that which the seminaries will prepare...this discussion strikes very close to home, and i don't want to rush through it. instead, i'm going to relax for a bit before heading off to work. ...oh, and it's interesting that mcLaren uses the language of 'refugees' to describe Christians who are thinking progressively, as they no longer have a home in traditional church settings and as of yet have no new 'home' into which they can move since the new church movement is not even beyond the drafting stage...it's still all so new that they'll be living in tents for awhile ...yesterday i described myself as feeling homeless... today mcLaren takes me a step further into refugee status.
11:24pm: i'm home from a busy night at work. busy is good in the restaurant business, because it's the only way you make money. and so money i made tonight. anyway, one of the girls i work with asked to hang out with me sometime. i was really surprised about this, since i often feel i would have to tell stories about who i slept with and how trashed i got in order to get any kind of attention. but i've actually started to develop relationships with some of the people there, this girl in particular. she'll ask me to go out and smoke with her and since i never have my own cigarettes, we smoke her menthol newports. and we talk about finding another job or at least starting a business which we can run while we sit bored during slow times (which is most of the time) from the server station in back. or we sit at the bar after work on a friday night and have a drink; her boyfriend of 2 years is out and isn't returning her calls, which drags up the fact that he cheated on her earlier this year... and i listen to the way she loves him but is dealing with the injury from him having cheated; she really does love him, i'm convinced, so it's a tough place to be in... but her strength is wearing thin. i suggest that they talk and they do; he tells her she pulled away, that's why he cheated and she admits that it's true. or we look at art that i bring in and pick out our favorites. she has uterine cancer. i don't know what the prognosis is, but she tries not to think about it too much. and she's excited to go back to school this fall to finish her criminal justice degree so she can go onto law school. mostly we talk about her, unless i'm telling a joke or asking a random question or commenting on the newspaper i'm reading as i fight off boredom...i don't get into personal stuff. and i guess that's why i'm surprised she wants to hang out...like i know her but she really doesn't know me, so why should she trust me? though i know it's because we've bonded in our boredom, i've happend to be present when her relational struggles were at their worst, because i offer a creative and intelligent voice...maybe i need to let her in more. we're going to go to Little Bohemia because we've been joking about starting a necklace and bracelet business to cope emotionally and financially with the lack of restaurant business. and then we'll walk the Grand River boardwalk. i'm scared, but glad.
11:49pm: i have to figure out what to buy my best friend for her first-year anniversary that was at the end of may. i'm a little late, but that's not unusual. papers, plastics and clocks are formally the first-year anniversary gifts. ...hmmm... also, i have friday off from work for the first time in months...must celebrate...but how???
i woke up this morning just in time to call my auto garage to cancel my car's apointment to have its muffler replaced. i really should get this done as soon as possible, but my financial state is begging me to wait until i rework my job situation. since then, i've spent this last hour reading the news and checking email and generally plunking around cyberspace. notable findings:
check out the BBC's Day In Pictures for today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4656041.stm.
Also, there is a new website that monitors human trafficking in southeast asia: Tipinasia.info. Here's an article on the website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4652803.stm.
4:00pm: so i guess my updates haven't exactly been hourly, but after showering and then removing the array of clothing which had been spilling out from my closet, i began my quest to finish 'a new kind of Christian' by brian mclaren. i've been going at an intense pace all day and have a chapter and a half left. ...will post further thoughts upon completion, should i have time before heading off to work. until then, news stations are now briefing that prez bush, while out bicycling as a break from his work at the g8 summit this week, collided with a local police officer. the president sustained scrapes and bruises and the officer was taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure. so, in all, the damage was minimal. the officer noted that the president was riding at a considerable speed and CNN's news reporter mentioned that it is not the first time that the president has taken a spill while bicycling :o)
5:04pm: well, i'm saving the last five pages of McLaren for tonight when i get home from work. the whole last chapter is actually the correspondence between a young woman and her mentor as she's considering seminary options and is confused as to how they might help her lead in a church setting that is vastly different from that which the seminaries will prepare...this discussion strikes very close to home, and i don't want to rush through it. instead, i'm going to relax for a bit before heading off to work. ...oh, and it's interesting that mcLaren uses the language of 'refugees' to describe Christians who are thinking progressively, as they no longer have a home in traditional church settings and as of yet have no new 'home' into which they can move since the new church movement is not even beyond the drafting stage...it's still all so new that they'll be living in tents for awhile ...yesterday i described myself as feeling homeless... today mcLaren takes me a step further into refugee status.
11:24pm: i'm home from a busy night at work. busy is good in the restaurant business, because it's the only way you make money. and so money i made tonight. anyway, one of the girls i work with asked to hang out with me sometime. i was really surprised about this, since i often feel i would have to tell stories about who i slept with and how trashed i got in order to get any kind of attention. but i've actually started to develop relationships with some of the people there, this girl in particular. she'll ask me to go out and smoke with her and since i never have my own cigarettes, we smoke her menthol newports. and we talk about finding another job or at least starting a business which we can run while we sit bored during slow times (which is most of the time) from the server station in back. or we sit at the bar after work on a friday night and have a drink; her boyfriend of 2 years is out and isn't returning her calls, which drags up the fact that he cheated on her earlier this year... and i listen to the way she loves him but is dealing with the injury from him having cheated; she really does love him, i'm convinced, so it's a tough place to be in... but her strength is wearing thin. i suggest that they talk and they do; he tells her she pulled away, that's why he cheated and she admits that it's true. or we look at art that i bring in and pick out our favorites. she has uterine cancer. i don't know what the prognosis is, but she tries not to think about it too much. and she's excited to go back to school this fall to finish her criminal justice degree so she can go onto law school. mostly we talk about her, unless i'm telling a joke or asking a random question or commenting on the newspaper i'm reading as i fight off boredom...i don't get into personal stuff. and i guess that's why i'm surprised she wants to hang out...like i know her but she really doesn't know me, so why should she trust me? though i know it's because we've bonded in our boredom, i've happend to be present when her relational struggles were at their worst, because i offer a creative and intelligent voice...maybe i need to let her in more. we're going to go to Little Bohemia because we've been joking about starting a necklace and bracelet business to cope emotionally and financially with the lack of restaurant business. and then we'll walk the Grand River boardwalk. i'm scared, but glad.
11:49pm: i have to figure out what to buy my best friend for her first-year anniversary that was at the end of may. i'm a little late, but that's not unusual. papers, plastics and clocks are formally the first-year anniversary gifts. ...hmmm... also, i have friday off from work for the first time in months...must celebrate...but how???
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