This is sorta a test blog, but i got some fun pics to, i haven't figured out how to make my individual blog layouts do exactly what i want, like the right text under the right photo.
first photo will be of a sign in a thai restaurant i like to go to near the seminary...

I might also add that i've been running about 3 times a week (supposed to be 4)and here is a typical end of run stat pic


On Sundays i teach a sunday school class for little kiddies, i dress up like a doctor, and tell them a story about how jesus healed a paraplegic, i take cues from house and martin - you know berate them and such, they say, "thats not a real stethoscope!" - i say, "and your dads not your real dad!" or something to that effect.

I've reading through Genesis lately, and am rather enjoying it - i think it gets a bad rap for being in the OT, but there is some crazy stuff in there. Two sets of twins being born a generation or so apart - when the first set was born, esau came out red and nasty all over, no sooner had he come out that jacob his younger brother reaches his arm out of the vaginal canal and takes hold of esau's leg, and of course it was symbolic, but only God knew what it meant so he told 'em it meant that the older will serve the younger. the second set of twins born from Tamar - you know, the daughter in law who posed as a hooker, cuz her two previous husbands (who were brothers) were killed by God cuz they were bad and stuff, mmm-k. anyway, she posed as a hooker cuz her father in law wouldn't give her his youngest and maybe last son (wonder why) and he (Judah - the father in law) noticed that her red light was on so he got some, but not before negotiation, to which she bargained for some of his personal effects. Which came in handy cause 3 months later when judah found out she was prego - he was like, off with her head, but she was like, its your baby - and here's your boxers and staff back, so obviously the next words out of judah's mouth "she is more righteous than i..." but "i ain't never sleepin with you again" (thats prolly what he said) and he didn't.
anyway, so she had judah's twins - and when they were born, one stuck his arm out the VC (not viet cong) and the midwife tied a red ribbon around his arm so as to know which was older - cause you can't imagine how important that was -(where do you get red ribbon in the desert?) , but then the little man pulled his arm back, and the other child came out first, but no symbolism this time, i think.

chris and allison got baptized yesteray, the volume is jacked up for some reason, it plays on my comp, but when i upload the video it sounds well.... anyway, here they are.

and allison...

I'm post crazy today...

Yesterday I was at kroger and as I was being wrung up the bagger boy asked what i had planned for the weekend - i said, reading. He said, reading what? I paused and internally smiled and said, 4 Views on the Canaanite Genocide. He said, o. I thought, exactly - not cause he's stupid or anything - but i imagine that besides its extreme unpopularity among westerners, and feel good sermon preachers - it probably also has relatively low interest even among students of scripture, because it makes no sense to us. I was previously included in this group, but in recent years i noticed it popping up plenty in liber, emergent, and non-christian discussions frequently, so i became mildly curious, but only to the point where i thought about it sometimes - and acknowledged that we must be more complete in understanding and thinking of God by being more complete in realizing who He is and what He has done to distinguish Himself - and only then being able to more fully worship Him as such or more fully reject him as such. I did take the next step up becoming interested in this subject when i realized that i could write on the subject for a paper this semester, so i'm taking the opportunity to do so. I'll post my findings prolly in a week or so, when i write the paper, but i have a feeling deeper grasping of one's personal theology is base to this discussion, you can't just walk into the middle of a conversation and expect to understand what and why is being said until your caught up in the story and the characters. one more thing, as i turns out, there are a lot more instances of Yahweh War than i thought.

Shayna sent me this video the other day - right now she is spending some needed time in charelston with her fam... i'm not exactly sure what message she is trying to send me, but i think this video says plenty about our relationship :)

I've been throwing caution to the wind lately, meaning i've been staying up past midnight, its a big deal. i have no work and no school yet this year so i just watch lots and lots of hulu and other dvd's that the front office at my apartment offers me for free. as you can imagine it has affected my dream sequences. I dreamed something i can't remember about my girlfriend, i think it was that she left me or something, and then i dreamed about britney spears... I recently watched her mtv documentary
http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/britney_spears_for_the_record/series.jhtml

and as i watched either shayna or i pointed out that it seems all her friends are paid staff. and i like bebo normans song a lot, i think its a very appropriate christian perspective humans - even one's who are such easy targets. (link below) so anyway i dreamed she came to some new years party with me and amy and john and that we were all just being sweet to her and showing her the love of christ, her children weren't at the party though. shayna thought it was a funny dream.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn6Hi6Jq0lM

From the new Gay Bible, cheers...

"And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Aida, and she slept: and he took one of her ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from woman, made he another woman, and brought her unto the first. And Aida said, 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of me. Therefore shall a woman leave her mother, and shall cleave unto her wife: and they shall be one flesh.' And they were both naked, the woman and her wife, and were not ashamed."