ahhh work. it's monday morning. i stayed up late last night. got about 4.5 hours of sleep, which for some people is normal, but not for this kid. i usually go to bed at like 10:30 and wake up at 6:00... and last night i went to bed at like 2:15 and woke up at about 6:45 this morning. ooooh well. what can you do? life goes on.
i just got some coffee and told myself i'd have a lot to do today at work. and i have been pretty productive, actually. i just felt my eyes slowly sliding shut so i decided to take a blog break. i am not surprised that my blog is getting much more posts than usual now that i have a job where i sit inside, in a cube, without a window all day. i like to feel connected to the outside world, even in the small and somewhat narcissistic way of blogging about myself. whatever, i'm pretty sure no one reads this... so it's just like a little release of boredom/thoughts and then back to the grind.
i don't have much to blog about today, though, so maybe i just should have refrained... but i'm not going to. i guess i've been reading wondering a little about the emergent church... and i haven't done much research at all, actually, 'cause i got kind of hung up on researching calvinism... but i was looking on amazon at the book of common prayer, because i think it's a really cool idea, and i came across a shane claiborne version of the book of common prayer. he's a character. at first, i thought i really liked/agreed with what he's like, but it scares me that rob bell is a huge fan of him, and he's clearly defined as being part of the emergent church... his "new monasticism" seems to be quite radical. and i am not against radical, but i am against radical movements that disregard the bible. i guess i don't know enough about new monasticism for sure, but i know that shane claiborne is a huge fan of mother teresa and her beliefs, and mother teresa is quoted as saying that it's no one's job to judge people's beliefs, and that many different religions lead to God and heaven... which is pretty contradictory to the bible. so i don't know much about shane claiborne/new monasticism/the emergent church, but i'm feeling wary.
something to research this summer for sure! rob bell is also on the list, although i heard it's super hard to find a copy of "love wins"... plus i really wouldn't want to buy it because i'm sort of horrified by what the premise of the book is about. so we'll see how that goes.
other than that, i've got a pretty exciting day ahead of me... which includes going for a jog and reading some "crazy love" by francis chan, then probably practicing my guitar, reading some of the book my mom lent me "the lake of dead languages", and then most likely retiring quite early to make up for my SUPER late night last night.
wow i kind of hope no one reads my blog because they probably want to take back the three minutes of their life i just wasted haha.
OH i will say that i watched this documentary called "the bridge"about the golden gate bridge... it's the single site that the most suicides have occurred anywhere in the world. and in 2004, someone trained cameras on it all year and caught many of the suicides on tape, and then interviewed family/friends/witnesses.... it was really sad, but really interesting. that's all i've got.
ok. i'm sure i'll update again soon, since i often get antsy at work.
i'll leave with this youtube video that is aaaaawesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3d_fqDcN1s
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