javajennifer admins | October 28, 2008
Every year around this time, this trite littel internet piece makes it’s way around unsuspecting email addresses about how we are all God’s pumpkins, some of us with warts, some misshapen but all of us a treasure, blah, blah, blahtty, blah-blah. God scoops out the gook in all of us, the seeds of greed, shoves [...]
javajennifer admins | October 22, 2008
Getting caught up this week after having been out of town since the 4th… only to be leaving again next week. Crazy. I received “The Most Important Gift Catalog in the World” in yesterday’s mail from Heifer International which, if you’re unfamiliar is an organization who facilitates the purchase of Heifers (duh!), Llamas, pigs, chickens, [...]
javajennifer admins | October 14, 2008
By 6:55am this morning, nothing kind had come out of my mouth. It seems that in the hours between my getting into my room last night and leaving this morning, the lovely Residence Inn has been invaded by a gaggle of home-schooled freaks, their evangelical Christian parents all making their way to the Creationism Museum, [...]
javajennifer admins | October 13, 2008
It was a very good day. Bug had her second child; a healthy baby boy 9 pounds 14 ounces, 22 inches long. He is 1 year and 5 days younger than Yum. I can’t remember how long Yum was but I know that he was 24 inches lost. 23 and change. Whatever. Kid was 2 [...]
javajennifer admins | October 12, 2008
I’m not used to cheering KU Football… and by KU, I mean University of Kansas and not University of Kentucky. When I was a ingénue, oh-so-many years ago the only time I saw the stadium full of people was at graduation when the combination of students and well-wishers filled the stadium to capacity. While flipping [...]
javajennifer admins | October 9, 2008
The amount of time it takes for 23 adults to move from a status of complete stranger to get on one another’s nerves is exactly 4 days, which is scary because we still have 10 days left together. One-Oh. TEN. 10. 10! Much of our work is done in groups and sometimes we get to [...]
javajennifer | October 8, 2008
javajennifer admins | October 8, 2008
Up at 6am and back to the hotel in time to make dinner, clean it up and pack a lunch for tomorrow. We are all taking turns writing the quiz that we take each morning at 7:30. Today it was my turn and as has been the custom the last two days the person who [...]
javajennifer admins | October 7, 2008
Although there is no genetic link to my Kansas City family, we are close in a way that ideologically, I’m fortunate to have taken many of their personality traits as my own so great is their influence. The one I wish I’d developed either through osmosis or practice is this: they never cry. In the [...]
javajennifer | October 5, 2008
Sitting in the airport lounge in Charlotte, I’m watching CNN which seems to be the de facto standard for airport media. I’m not sure if it’s by contract or by some notion that they are “better” than MSNBC or FOX though I think CNN’s reputation might be more centralist, vs. MSNBC which is as far [...]
