Feeling Better

It's 5:46am and I'm feeling far better than I was this time yesterday, which is good. I'm hoping that not too much has risen up to drown me at work while I was gone yesterday.

Semi-Random Notes

I took my car in to the shop Monday evening, should get it back today. Meanwhile, I have my dad's pick-up to drive. Woo-hoo! I love driving the truck rather than my Ford Escort. I can't plug in my iPod (my precioussss. . . ) which is annoying, because the truck has a CD player not a cassette deck, which is what my adapter requires, but I have several custom CD's I've burned so I shall manage to get through the commute without too much suffering.

Repairs on the car (long overdue tune-up, replacing the timing belt) are going to be less than I'd expected, more than I would like, but - thanks to my new job - affordable.

We should be able to finalize the newsletter this week and get it off to the printer. People remain delighted with progress. I consider it "good enough," and have a list of "things to do better next time" items. But I'm not suffering any guilt or stress about what might have been better. This has been, after all, a significant learning experience for me.

Had a great talk with my dad on Monday afternoon when he picked me up at the repair shop. I was telling him about my experiences of ambiguity in leadership in my two work projects, and how I was planning to do things differently next time. He offered to share some of the material he has used in the leadership classes he's taught. It always feels nice to talk to my dad as a professional peer, and I haven't been able to do that for a long time.

Monday the 20th will be the first Day of Reflection for the school year, and my first with the Master of Arts in Transforming Spirituality (MATS) program group. It will be interesting to find out how different it is - if at all - from the Days of Reflection I did with the M.Div. group last year. This date crept up on me, but fortunately I had already scheduled the day off for a project management fundamentals class, which I can reschedule.

I have a journal entry of actual substance slowly taking shape in the back of my mind about stories involving black-and-white good vs. evil as opposed to those involving shades of gray and paradox. I had been thinking about it for a while, but it gained more urgency after reading a friend's recent locked post about her current taste in books and movies that resonated strongly with me.

This has gotten much longer than I expected! Happy day, everyone! Thanks for all the good energy you've been sending!

Questions, Questions

Ripped from raptures_shadow

I haven't actually met most of you in person, so some of these may not apply. But what the heck. Answer some, all, or none, as you please. And I do allow anonymous posting. ;-)

1. Who are you?
2. Are we friends?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. Do you have a crush on me? or did you ever have a crush on me?
5. Would you kiss me, if I asked nicely?
6. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
7. Describe me in one word.
8. What was your first impression?
9. Do you still think that way about me now?
10. What reminds you of me?
11. If you could give me anything what would it be?
12. If I could give you anything, what would you like?
13. When is the last time you saw me?
14. What's your best piece of advice for me?
15. What is the strongest memory you have of me?