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Elizabeth (the delinquent, ecumenical) ([personal profile] hermionesviolin) wrote2008-10-22 11:58 pm

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I did 45min on the treadmill (4.0mph, 1.0 incline, striding at times).

I was hoping to get on Y!M and actually chat with mjules today, but again I was busy. I'm not sure I could even tell you what I did all day. My biggest chunk of downtime involved reading B's Al Dunlap case (and teaching note) as I'd been meaning to since econ class last week.

Today, B was asking me if I'd be interested in helping out with writing stuff, and I said yeah and mentioned how Alyssa and I had helped edit Max and Deepak's book. He said I must be really familiar with that book then. I said yeah and told the story of being in young adult church group discussion and finding myself using the phrase "parasitic value creation."

He said I'm really good at my job, that he would love to keep me for the next 30 years, that my organization is great and that it's appreciated not just by him but by the whole Unit. I'm sure this is true, but I thought, "Does anyone actually make a point of explicitly telling you that?" -- though Ian has thanked me and Katie for our help with Recruiting in multiple mass emails.

Trying to find dates/times to get anything scheduled with faculty takes forever, but apparently we FAs are ridiculously indecisive about picking things like, oh, a restaurant to eat at. Flist wanna decide my vote for me? The links go to the official websites, but feel free to check out Yelp or whatever. (Department is footing the bill, so normal concerns about price don't so much apply.)

[Poll #1283679]

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Rest and Bread ("Community")

Psalm 122

Sacred Text: Romans 12 (v. 8-12). I was struck even more so than I was when it was a Scripture reading in church recently by how bad the parallelism is.

Keith did the Reflection. He opened by talking about "community as context for vocation," though the bulk of the reflection ended up being about community sort of more generally. He did end by saying, "as we have received, so let us go and give."

[identity profile] mjules.livejournal.com 2008-10-23 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Aww! I looked for you, too. *sniffle* But it makes me warm and fuzzy to know you were looking forward to getting to talk to me.

[identity profile] hermionesviolin.livejournal.com 2008-10-23 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
I was like, "Wednesday is Megan's open day. I should actually get to talk to her." But I never had downtime extensive enough to feel comfortable actually signing on to Y!M. (Obviously I knew you wouldn't be offended if I abandoned you mid-conversation, but I was more worried that I would get focused on chatting with you and let actual work stuff slide.)

*snugs you*