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Name: Christine
State: Minnesota
Metro: Minneapolis
Birthday: 11/20/1980
Gender: Female
Interests: Psychology, The Oscars, Pudding Wrestling, Snobby British Literature, Excessively long books that normal people don't read, Cooking, Sleeping
Expertise: Insomnia. Procrastination. Playing with people's heads. Especially those of the criminally insane. Making up words.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Medical
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Member Since:
3/4/2006
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| I know it's been awhile, this graduate school thing is definitely starting to interfere with my life... But, I just finished what could very well be my LAST PAPER of graduate school (other than that pesky dissertation...) So, I've got some extra time on my hands...
And Andrea and I were talking tonight about the good ol' days in the Wheaton College Archives and Special Collections (since I was struggling through recreating my resume) and I was digging through my files from the Wheaton era (looking for info for my resume (what was my college GPA anyway...)) and found the stuff that I stole from the A & SC about The Sojourners. (I checked out their website a bit, they don't seem like they are quite as nutty as they were in the 80's (the time period of the stuff I was going through at the A & SC))
Tragically, I seem to have misplaced the diagram of what would happen if a Nuclear Bomb was dropped on the Minnesota State Fair. However, I found this nice little responsive reading, that I though I would share
Leader: O God, who paid attention to muses the labor organizer and the people when they protested against Pharaoh's oppressive use of slave labor, against work speed-ups, and against "take-backs"; and who helped the people struggle out from under the slavery system
People: WE WANT JOBS! WE WANT GOOD JOBS! WE WANT GOOD JOBS NOW!
Leader: O God, who works to create your world, and who looks upon your handiwork and sees that it is in fact very good, we need jobs building things and doing things that meet real human needs, good quality things, things that are non-distructive and peaceful.
People: WE WANT JOBS! WE WANT GOOD JOBS! WE WANT GOOD JOBS NOW!
Leader: O God, who hears the cries of widows and orphans, of refugees and immigrants, of old people, of sick and injured people, of war veterans, of poor and alienated people, of young men and women without a chance for education or employment, of middle-age people who have been displaced by machines or by factories moving to exploit people elsewhere, of children who need child care while parents work or look for work, of people who need decent housing, affordable health care, of people who need a chance to hope.
People: WE WANT JOBS! WE WANT GOOD JOBS! WE WANT GOOD JOBS NOW!
Leader: O God, we pray, turn this cockeyed, cruel, hypocritical, unjust and downright failure of an economic and political system upside down and inside out. Let there be, truly, liberty and justice for ALL. Let us all have the basic guarantees of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Make even this Lame Duck congress and the next one and the poor excuse for a president we have, and the rich and powerful for whom they stand, make them give way to the anguished, angry, loud, unrelenting cries of the people made irresistible and powerful like a mighty river through solidarity and wisdom and love.
People: WE'LL GET JOBS! WE'LL GET GOOD JOBS! WE'LL GET GOOD JOBS NOW!
All: AMEN!
Now, just in case anyone other than andrea is reading this (which is highly unlikely), I am not trying to poke fun of all of the sentiments of this "prayer." However, I am highly amused at the highly demanding nature of the "people" and the idea that if you demand from God, clearly you will "GET GOOD JOBS NOW!" I guess it is mostly the NOW part that seems highly questionable.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, this was written in 1982, so the "poor excuse for a president we have" is Regan. However, if you google President 1982, the first site you get is titled Ronald Reagan - The Bonzo Years 1982. (Unless you are on my computer which, when I clicked on Google, automatically came up with a search for "Apple Alcohol"...
Ok, small diversion complete, time to be productive again. | | |
| Well tonight I took part in yet another bizarre Minnesota winter pastime. I went hunting for the St. Paul Winter Carnival Medallion. The deal is (for those of you not fortunate enough to live here) they hide a little piece of metal in the snow, in January, and give clues to it's location in the paper. Crazy Minnesotans will do anything to find the darn thing.
So tonight at work, my friend Marya told me that the Medallion is hidden in Central Park, where I go running, and another clue was coming out at 11:45 and so I should go dig with here. Now I am always up for an adventure, so of course I tagged along. Even though it is currently 5 degrees here. But I got all bundled up and went out, if for no other reason than to see what kind of crazy people there are out there. And let me tell you, people take their medallion searching VERY seriously.
Alas, we did not find it. However, if it goes through till tomorrow night, who knows, I may tag along again (assuming my toes thaw by then...) | | |
| So, as HSX has become my new online obsession, I was perusing the upcoming movies, looking for new stocks to buy, and I happened upon Lions from Lambs, a pre-production middle-east war flick staring Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise, directed by (my favorite) Robert Redford. Now, I figured, at the time, that Mr. Cruise has been a little....um....unstable recently. But I figured the other two could...keep him honest. So I bought the stock (because I am obsessed). However, then it occurred to me that good ol' Bob is likely getting up there in years. Which lead to the IMDB search resulting in the realization the Mr. Redford will in fact be *71* in August (Assuming my math is correct, which it probably isn't (maybe I should send him a card...I'll probably forget...)). Now this is somewhat better than what I was imagining, and it seems unlikely that he will kick the bucket before the movie is finished (I mean Clint is almost 77 (also younger than I thought...) and still making Oscar nominated movies, bench-pressing, and flying helicopters, so he should make it...).
So, this is all pointless, but I did find out that Robert Redford does a voice for Charlotte's Web (Ike the Horse, I'm afraid I don't remember that one...), so I guess I'll have to see that one...
Yup, this was all pointless, sorry | | |
| I just finished watching "The Black Dahlia," now I had been told that it was...um...not the most plot driven movie ever made. However, the true crime drama appeals to me, and apparently I though myself somewhat more movie watching savvy than all those other people. And to top it off, it is a nominated film, and therefore (or so I felt) requires and deserves my attention. Apparently I was wrong.
I am pretty sure that this was THE MOST CONFUSING movie I have ever seen where I was able to identify all the characters throughout the film (I am frequently perplexed in random epic war movies were everyone is dressed in uniform and speaking with the same false accent and appears to be of germanic decent, really, how can you figure out what is going on if you can't identify a single character by name!). The screenplay was a disaster, the directing not much better, and the editing even worse. Now it was a pretty movie, and Josh Hartnett was pretty good, given what he had to work with (Scarlett Johansson on the other hand just wandered around pouting). But it begs to ask, Why? With all the other superbly crafted films created this year, would the Academy chose to honor this abomination??? I know that I am not an expert on cinematography, but in all the Oscar following that I do I have learned SOMETHING. And how this movie wound up on the list where others, like "letters to iwo jima," "Dreamgirls," "The Fountain," "The Good German," "THe Curse of the Golden Flower," and even "Babel" were not included boggles my mind.
Just further evidence that Oscar is indeed on drugs. | | |
| So I am going to save my update on all the movies I have seen (including Pan's) for tomorrow. But I thought I would share a blonde moment from while I was in the theater tonight.
So the girl in front of me pulls out her cell phone, so I could see her wallpaper picture. I was like, "that's interesting, that girl has Jesus as her wallpaper" (b/c I swear it looked like that picture of Christ's head that is all over the place) However, upon second glance, I realized that it was NOT actually Christ, but rather Johnny Depp dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow. I was somewhat disturbed by this error.
I am going to the optometrist tomorrow.... | | |
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