Archive for August, 2007

field school: Old Nemaska cont’d.

Aug 31st, 2007 Posted in field school, photography, travel | Comments Off

Just in case you’ve ever wanted to what it’s like to clean a sturgeon…

(I didn’t post the photos here because, really, who wants to click on a blog and see bloody fish?)

my brain…it bleeds

Aug 31st, 2007 Posted in politics | Comments Off

My parents’ small group is over for dinner tonight. My mom and five of her friends sitting around the island in the kitchen, and someone mentions the price of oil.

“We need to pull out of Iraq.”

“We need to develop alternative energy sources.”

“We need to drill in the Arctic!”

“I tell you what we need to do is get rid of the environmentalist lobby.”

The subject was, mercifully, changed pretty quickly.

school starts in four days…

Aug 30th, 2007 Posted in tidbits | Comments Off

Four classes and two labs. Am I ready? HA!

That’d be a no. But I did get a cute new bag, and in an effort to drastically decrease my food-related costs this semester, I bought a new lunchbox too. I’m going bento.

hate to break it to you

Aug 30th, 2007 Posted in orthodoxy, thinking matters | 5 comments »

But if you’re trying to have an intelligent discussion about the early church, and you make a statement about the RCC followed by a question to the effect of, “Aren’t the RCC and Orthodox the same thing?”…

…you’re not having an intelligent discussion about the early church.

kitty links!

Aug 29th, 2007 Posted in odd ends | Comments Off

Random cat-related items from today…

Anderson: a series of cuteness

cats+drugs+camera