“strive to be one standard deviation above the mean.”

Archive for December 2006

kenya promo video for RCC mission trip

Posted by: ilovekenya on: December 30, 2006

it will take a minute to load but click here to see the rough draft for the RCC promo video for our Kenya 2007 mission trip.
please feel free to make suggestions. i know the text comes out a little grainy. the final draft will be made with a program that doesn’t do that, and [...]

al gore and global warming

Posted by: ilovekenya on: December 29, 2006

i was watching the news the other day and they were discussing global warming.
i have no issue with global warming. its a reality.
we only have “evidence” from the time we have been collecting it. we have no idea about trends before man was here. i think its a little egocentric, honestly. my issue is [...]

of (snow) men and (snow) angels

Posted by: ilovekenya on: December 29, 2006

if any of you have followed the weather channel recently, you know that there is another blizzard heading towards colorado, where i am currently. what does this mean? it means i may be one of those travelers in a delayed/canceled situation. i was hoping to avoid all that nonsense, and travel easily from one destination [...]

my mother doesn’t put oysters in her stuffing

Posted by: ilovekenya on: December 28, 2006

holidays are a great time of year to reflect on faith and life in general.
they are also a time to remind us what creatures of habit we are. you visit someone else’s house for the holidays and you are anticipating the great feast that you always have and before you can say prancer, you find [...]

our apartment

Posted by: ilovekenya on: December 21, 2006

we took pictures of our new furniture, and i thought i would post a few:
here is our dinning room:

and our living room:

here is our bedroom

and our guest bedroom

merry christmas from our elf

Posted by: ilovekenya on: December 21, 2006

here is a picture (it took forever to get her to hold still) of our little elf!

lilly graduates!

Posted by: ilovekenya on: December 15, 2006

our sweet little pup graduated from her first obedience school last night. she wasn’t suma cum laude, but, she finished well! she starts advanced obedience in january. we are proud of her and we aren’t sure when she will register for hand-in-paw.

move over myspace and welcome my benchspace

Posted by: ilovekenya on: December 12, 2006

its happened. the science nerds are getting their own myspace. yeah, we’re cool.
currently, i am at the american society for cell biology annual meeting (and before you say ultra nerd, consider that there is a soceity for statistical analysis – those are ultra nerds).
one of the booths has as website where scientist can post questions [...]

name tags, not pocket protectors

Posted by: ilovekenya on: December 12, 2006

and how does the city of san diego know whe are nerds? its our name tags. i look down the street in san deigo’s gas light district and little nerds with their meeting name tags on (because we forget to take such things off until we get to our rooms) are popping into and out [...]

joy in the moment

Posted by: ilovekenya on: December 7, 2006

yesterday i had coffee with a friend for an hour (oh the joys of being a graduate student and not really being on a clock). we talked about how in general, americans have a mentality that the grass is greener on the other side. we laughed about how when you start liking someone, questions progess [...]


 

December 2006
M T W T F S S
« Nov   Jan »
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031

Food For Thought

"Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresitable." - W. S. Mooneyhom

Currently Reading:

Life of the Beloved by Henri Nouwen

a