Prayer concerns: James in Bagdad, Sonya, Erin, Dave and Brittany, Jennifer's family, Brian and Amey.
Praise for health and finances holding up, John and Melissa house, Ellice's job
Things were shaping up to be pretty busy this past weekend, so Monday and Tuesday we pretty much took it easy, and just walked both nights at the YMCA. We are about 75 miles into the 100-mile club, and we are looking forward to our T-shirts, which we will wear with pride.
Tuesday we also had a writing group meeting. Which is a little funny, cause the meetings have dropped down to just me and Ellice due to busy schedules. Perhaps a few of the readers of this blog would be interested in a virtual writing group that got together once per week, 2 weeks, or month in a chat room to discuss our writing? We could submit a chapter per week/2 weeks/month by e-mail and have a blogpage for our responses. Just a thought.
Wednesday night was packed with church and class. We've started going to the Wednesday night dinner at church. I'm a bit rushed to get to class by 6pm, but we've found the dinners to be a fun bit of fellowship. The food's not bad either. Ellice then goes to a women's Bible study followed by choir. I pick Ellice up then we go walk for 2 miles.
Thursday is basically me going to class and Ellice hosting her married women's Bible study. Then we go walk. I messed up taping the Survivor premier, but fortunately they play them as webcasts, and we watched it Sunday before church. More on Survivor later.
Friday I finally got a call to sub so I worked through the day and we had Dave and Brittany over for games. Brittany won at Risk and was so happy, it was worth getting beaten. Sadly Ellice was the first to bear the brunt of her attacks, and had to watch for some time. Taped Flash Gordon.
Saturday I worked feverishly with Ellice's help on preparing for the game. I am notorious for my copious piles of loose yellow paper with notes scrawled everywhere. Ellice has been trying to get me more organized and it is starting to pay off. She's convinced me that I should go digital with everything, not only to speed play and preparation, but also to reduce clutter around the house. So we played, had a fantastic session and there was much rejoicing. Taped the UK-Arkansas game and watched it in bed while Ellice tried to get some sleep through periodic shouts and exclamations of alarm. UK, having cracked into the top 25 for the first time in 23 years now had to step up and win an SEC (Southeastern conference) game on the road against a tough Arkansas team with the best pair of Running Backs in the country. UK floundered early, and it looked like it was going to be a blowout, but they fought back twice and found victory. The announcers were stunned and said that UK actually is legit this year and is a factor in the SEC race. Next week should be easy, but then we play #2 LSU and #3 Florida. If we can grab one of those games, lookout!
Sunday--I really dragged yesterday, owing in no small part to staying up till 2am watching the UK game. Watched Survivor. After church we gave my dad the tape of the UK game, ate some Rally burgers, and went to our first Volleyball practice. We should have a decent team this year, but I don't know if we can win it all. We'll see.
In other news, Wheel of Time author Robert Jordan died, and I find myself conflicted. Is it horribly selfish of me to wonder what will happen to the 12th and final book he was working on in the series, A Memory of Light? I feel bad for him; I did when I first learned of his rare blood illness. If I had to pick a handful of influencing authors, Jordan would be one of them. I think that my wishing he had completed the last book is more of an homage to the man; a respect and appreciation for his writing talent and a feeling of loss that we won't have it around any longer.
Survivor: China (TV)
Love Survivor, but in this the season premier, there was an incident that raised some questions. The beginning of the first episode had the cast perform a ceremony in an ancient Buddhist temple. Now host Jeff Probst said that this ceremony was not worship. However, there were many prominent idols in the room and the thrust of the ceremony was burning incense to them, getting down on your knees and bowing to the largest Buddha with your head to the floor. I think this is more a sign of respect in their culture, as in my karate classes, we had to do the same bows to the teacher, who returned them in kind. One of the cast, a Christian radio talk show host, was sweating heavily and crying at the display, and could not finish the ceremony. When confronted by Probst, she said she couldn't bow down before an idol. I'm torn myself over what I would do. Even if the ceremony wasn't technically worship to them, it definitely was worship-like. Where's the line between respecting a culture and following your own beliefs? A good question. In this season, I like her and the gravedigger, a big soft-spoken black man. I hope they do well. This week, a Virginia chicken farmer was voted off--bad move guys, that guy was a common-sense driven workhorse and I'm certain he'll be missed. I think the accent hurt him. **1/2
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In my opinion bowing down before an idol is wrong; worship or not. I didn’t like that and didn’t think it was fair to spring that on the contestants.
I also agree that voting off the chicken farmer was a bad move.
yeah cause now who is going to build anything in their group. and they certianly voted off one of the stronger people just on endurance.
I don't watch Survivor, but when I read that, I was horrified. I'm surprised they won't get slammed with a lawsuit - and I wouldn't have done it either. Yes, it may be an important part of their culture, but it's also part of their religion - it would be interesting to hear what missionaries to that part of the world would say about the concept.
Writing night: Well, for you guys it was submit and comment and edit...for me, it's just a time to get some writing done, period. Which hasn't been happening much here - not exactly writer's block, just a 'refill' phase. Although I have this random story going with a friend where I type a short scene, send it to him, he writes the following scene and we're just seeing where it goes. It started on a fluke, really.
Sooo, would something like that interest? The next scene could be written and exchanged on that certain night...or due by that night...or even some time spent in front of the computer writing back and forth for 2 hours. It could be a 3-way scene exchange...I write 1, Ellice writes 2, you write 3, back to me for 4...or it could be E and I exchanging and you doing edits and comments. I vote no outline to start with, just back and forth and see what develops...it can be in a world already created by one of us (Toby, Pirates, Eris) or come up with something totally new.
Or, yeah, send me stuff and I'll comment, but at this point in time, I'm not officially writing anything to send back. But a virtual writing night is worth exploration.
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