Compulsiveness... TeeHee!

-Rach
Hey everybody, I'm compulsive so I went through and attached labels to all of our posts. So when you make a new post feel free to use some of the labels I made. You can see them on the left side of this blog page. And when you're making a post, at the bottom right of the post where it has the little box that says "Labels" there's also a "Show all" link to push and it will reveal all of the labels that there are. If you make a new one please capitalize because my compulsiveness is driving me nuts o_O!

I have even made a label called RROTW which of course stands for Rachael Rant of the Week ;-D

Book recommendation: Stephen Lawhead

I believe that some of you have read some of Stephen R. Lawhead's books.  Those of you who know him will know that he is one of the most successful living (or at least recently living) Christian fantasy authors.  In all of the books I have read by him, he attempts to portray a Christian society and what it would look like.  Some of you will have read Taliesin, Merlin, and Arthur, his trilogy about King Arthur and Atlantis.  :)  In my opinion, the quality of his works really varies - some of them are splendid, among the best, and some of them are pretty weak.  The splendid ones - well, they're really worth reading - exciting storyline, good characters, and some really thought-provoking themes.

Well, I just re-read a sci-fi duology I own by him:  Empyrion, composed of The Search for Fierra and The Siege of Dome.  I remembered it was very good and recommended it to a couple of you.  ...It was significantly better than I remembered.

My head is overflowing with thoughts about what a Christian society should be and what role it should play in the world.  He packed in a lot.  We could have a great discussion on it.  And it's a rollicking good yarn, too.

And in his Christian society... there is dancing!  ;)

If any of you who are nearby want to read it, you may borrow it.

-Melanie

Adventure planning!

SoCal folks, please look on the wall for the Getty trip event I made and let me know your opinion about times and whatnot!  ...I can't figure out why only five posts are visible on the wall and the older ones seem to have vanished into an abyss; let me know if you know a way to change that...

I would like to propose that those of us who are in the region from now on choose one weekend each month to attempt to get together - no problem if for whatever reason (trips, busyness, doctoral work...) you can't make it, but something nice if we can.  Obviously the proposal to make one or two events a year serious get-togethers for all of us however far afield we may be still stands - but I was thinking that regular low-pressure "come if you can and invite whoever you want" events would be really nice.

If the current time stands, the June get-together is next week, Saturday the 26th, for a Getty adventure!  :)  ...But please, let me know if something else would work better.

I'll be in touch via Facebook and e-mail.

-Melanie

Weird Case of Insomnia

I'm having a rough time sleeping and do you know what insomnia leads to? Lydia online until she's tired enough to sleep. 


My sister is finally out of school, my mom is off of work until August, my dad doesn't start teaching summer school for couple weeks so the whole family is home. I've had so much time at home lately though that I'm starting to get cabin fever, which is a bad sign since I don't have any plans for the summer and I don't go to Riverside until September. I'll definitely have to take a proactive approach to fix that.

Most of  my time lately has  been spent  figuring out my housing situation for this coming year. Unfortunately, I should have been trying to secure housing starting April when I was accepted.  Fortunately, the housing staff has been extremely helpful and it looks like I'll be able to live on campus, it's just a matter of making sure I call regularly  until I've actually selected an open apartment and signed the housing contract.

Other than that, my life has been very quiet except for occasional outings with people including Brett, Rachael and my family. Tomorrow will be a day of much more excitement as I am going to Biola to turn in my transcript request and diploma request, hopefully crash Evan in the chem lab, and say goodbye to some of my favorite spots around the campus. 


By the way, if any of the rest of you are feeling sad about graduation, major changes in life, or feeling like you weren't ready to let go, don't worry, you're not alone. My excitement is mingled with grief and it is comfort to know that all will be well even when emotions are contradictory. 


Well, before I write an obscenely long post, I bid you all good morning and I am off to see if I can shake this insomnia.

Rachael Update :D

I got the radiator in my car yesterday. I'll put some pics in this post when I get them off of my camera. We were afraid that the fans that attach to the radiator weren't working. But, after driving my beauty around today and coming home the fans finally started for about two seconds, so they were alright. In other car news, I accidentally left the door open and keys in the ignition all night last night so the one light was on but thankfully the battery was fine.

And now, for the most important part. *Drumroll please* I was admitted to Cal State Fullerton's Applied Mathematics Masters' program. Woohoo!!!! I cannot wait to start (well actually I can. I'm happy with the relaxation time that this summer has afforded me).

Update from Ellene! :)

I have wonderful news everyone! The Registrar found my senior petition! Yay!
It's actually a good story. So after calling the registrar (again) to see if they happened to find my
petition yet, they said they hadn't, but they would try and call back once they found it.
After I hung up, I prayed that God would help them find it and everything would be ok. A few minutes later, my graduation counselor called back and said that she found my petition and that the petition was fine! She said she would mail it to me that day! God is sooo good everyone (and very speedy apparently in this case!).
I was also wondering a random thing. Who in our group coined the name "The Wandering Franciscans" for us? Was it Sarah? For some reason, I thought it was Sarah.
Also, I was wondering another random thing. Do you guys remember that YouTube video where on of the old Torrey students made a funny video called "Ten Things to Love About Biola"? The guy is getting married to someone we all know and I just can't to remember his name or his finance! I remember Sam or Lydia telling me during our last Denny's outing (and oh what fun that was! ) and I was so surprised and happy for him, but I just can't remember either of their names. Does anyone (ie Sam or Lydia in particular) remember who that was? I'm not sure why I care so much, but I'm just curious and happy for them! :)

I hope that you are all doing well and having fun with your jobs, cars, quilting and families!

~Ellene

New Adventure of the Week from Ellene

Obviously I forgot that our wonderful blog is the new place to post our "adventures of the week." Oops, but it is here and on bubbs. :)

I was inspired by Lydia's effort of sending us all those lovely adventures of the week two long summers ago!

So this summer has been a summer of trying to stay in shape physically and mentally. I have been doing my 

MCAT prep and doing Tae Bo. Tae Bo hurts if you haven't worked out in a while like me. Last week I made the mistake 

of doing Tae Bo two days in a row: the 28 min "Flex Express" and the 46 min "Cardio" session. My thighs still hurt

from doing those terrible squats and I did this last Tuesday! lol

MCAT wise, I'm still trying to figure out how to incline problems correctly. I'll get it with some more practice.

Oh and I just saw "Shutter Island" on pay per view---I definitely recommend it. It will keep you on the edge of your seat

the entire time! I also saw Toy Story 2--I'm very excited for Toy Story 3!

Keep posting adventures friends!

~Ellene

P.S. Please pray that the Registrar finds my senior petition--they've seemed to "misplace it." :(

RROTW (Rachael Rant of the Week)

Well it's a rant and a status update all in one.

This summer has been great so far. I don't feel like I have been wasting time in front of the TV like I did during inter-term. Even though I have been spending quite a bit of time watching TV with my father, playing facebook games, and playing World of Warcraft.

I have been starting to read the books I need to have read for Torrey Cambridge. Poetry always takes so much longer than I expect it to. I should have had 100 pages read by Tuesday of last week; I have 30 pages left to read. Grr.

I, along with Elizabeth and Jenn (last names preserved for privacy [that's right "preserved" not "reserved" because I'm cool like that]), have been learning to quilt over at Nikki's (the archery coach's) place. The pattern is called Autumn Leaf and I am using purple and yellow fabrics, not because I am very fond of those colors, but because Nikki had a lot of extra fabric in those colors and they work well together. Later this summer, I'm going to get Elizabeth to teach me to crochet and will hopefully make the other three sun dresses that I have had fabric for for over a year.

I am planning on doing NaNoWriMo this year. Maybe at some point Meru I could borrow that book your sister got you :D

Later this summer, after Cambridge, my father and I are going to get a puppy so he can have a dog and I can have one.

I still don't know if I've been accepted to Cal State Fullerton. But to occupy my time I've been working on a Yahtzee project with one of the math professors for about a year and we're still working on it. Hopefully soon we'll have it published in some sort of journal.

And now to the part everyone has been waiting for.... The RANT:

So, my father and I think that we have found the problem with my car. Recall: the problem where it doesn't start in the rain and if I drive through a puddle it shuts off. We think it was the starter solenoid (it puts power to the starter in a car). So, being the poor little family we are, with my dad being very mechanically inclined, we go and buy a brand new starter... which I HAVE TO REPLACE MYSELF!!!

Meaning I have to cram my arm into a tiny space, suffering multiple scratches and bruises, to unbolt the old starter. Then we have to jiggle it around and maneuver it very carefully to get it out of the tiny space it rests in. Then we unbolt the bracket that holds some wires to it and buy the new starter. Well, now I have forgotten which way the bracket attaches and looking at the car isn't helpful, neither is the manual which is for the 1990 CRX, but I have the '91 (and the Honda dealer said there was no difference, boy were they WRONG!). Okay, so we just didn't attach the bracket and I put the new starter back in. This means that I had to shove my arm back into that tiny space, suffering more scratches and bruises whilst replace the bolts of the starter.

Alright, that problem has been taken care of. Now onto the battery terminal which has been corroded beyond all recognizable shape. I take that off and put a new one on. Not too bad.

And the piece d'resistance (that's French ;D) is the radiator. Which has been broken for two years. The tank up top was cracked so it would hold antifreeze for a while until the pressure became too much and then it would blow the antifreeze out the crack at the top. So every two weeks or so I had to put a cup of antifreeze in my car to keep it topped off. Well, dad decides that since I'm working on my starter I may as well learn how to replace a radiator too. So, I crawl underneath the car and take out the plug to let the old radiator drain.

The trouble is, that on the bottom of my car is a plastic shield. So the radiator doesn't drain straight into the pan, the antifreeze hits the shield and travels further back underneath the car. Well the shield is black so I can't see where the antifreeze is draining to until it starts overflowing the shield. Let me tell you, that was sooo messy!! Okay, so the radiator has been drained. Time to unplug all of the electronics, but leave on the two fans attached to the radiator. Then I take off the two huge hoses attached to the radiator, so far so good. Then we unscrew it from everything it was attached to. Done.

Then we pull the radiator out of the car... then we Pull the radiator out of the car... then we PULL the radiator out of the... s#@t, it's not coming out of the car. So I get on my back and crawl underneath the car, unscrew that stupid plastic shield, get antifreeze all over me because it had drained fully from the radiator but not from the shield, and try to find the problem. Turns out, one of the fans attached to the radiator slides into a connector on the bottom of the radiator. That connector is stuck ON THE METAL FRAME OF THE CAR!!!!! So I have to lever the connector back out from under the frame with a HUGE screwdriver while my father yanks and pulls with a crow bar on the radiator from above.

Finally we get the radiator out of the car. It can't get any worse right? But wait  - there's more!!! We had ordered a radiator from AutoZone (I knew all along that was a big mistake); AutoZone being an hack of an auto parts store masquerading as a "speed shop" (what speed shop carries spark plugs for a lawn mower? Seriously?). So we take the new, shiny, aluminum (that's actually a great feature) radiator out of the box... and we compare... and we take the fans off of the old radiator and try to fit them to the new one.... and try to fit them to the new one... and try to - you can see where this is going right? So, the new one is the wrong one.

It turns out that the new one was for an automatic without air conditioning (contrary to popular belief my car does have an air conditioning system, it just doesn't work that well). But when we had called them and ordered it we told them I had a manual car with air conditioning. They told us *imagine a sickly sweet voice here* "Oh, it doesn't matter, the radiator is universal". It's not.

We went to six different places to find the radiator we needed. Obviously the first five places didn't have our radiator, so we finally asked who their supplier was and we went direct to the supplier to get our radiator which was more expensive, made of copper (not as good at cooling as aluminum though perhaps more durable), and didn't have the lifetime warranty that AutoZone's radiator had.

I have yet to put the radiator in my car. That is my task for tomorrow morning. I'll let you know how it all goes.

Phew. That's been my summer in a nutshell so far.

Best... word... ever!

I used to think that defenestration was the best word ever.  As of this week, thanks to my sister's sharing a link to Kristin Cashore's blog (a most excellent author who keeps an excellent blog)  I have seen the light.  The best word ever is not defenestration.

It is apokolokyntosis.

Pronunciation:  a-POCK-a-LOCK-in-TOE-sis.

Meaning: the act of turning into a pumpkin.

Isn't it fabulous?

Also, apparently Seneca is awesome.  After some other boring poet wrote The Apotheosis of the Divine Claudius, he wrote The Apokolokyntosis of the Divine Claudius.  Yay.

I hope all of you give this word the appreciation it deserves.  Especially you, Megan.  You are the single biggest reason why I post this here.  Enjoy it.

-Melanie

Greetings from Sam

Well, first post ever by the King of Amusing Giddiness, and it's not going to be nominated for a Pulitzer.  I have a few ideas for some thought provoking stuff, but that's for later.  I'm still getting my feet wet.
I did go visit Torrey Berkeley for the first time, which was fun.  There was a Torrey Alumni dessert event that drew about eight, excluding myself.  It was fun to talk to a couple that knew Ms. Schubert as students.  I was a little disappointed that there weren't more people there, but it was fun.  The Torrey Berkeley program itself only had 18 students this year.  People don't think that Berkeley is as cool as Cambridge, evidently.
In non-Torrey news, I have a job full time for the summer.  Woot.  I'm not wildly excited about what I'm doing (grunt and go-fer type work), but I'm blessed with good co-workers (including my brother Jake) and money so I can pay for things like car insurance and stuff.  God is good.
Anyway, I would like to share some stuff that I've been thinking about Dostoevsky, but that will have to wait.  My recent reading of Tom Clancy novels just doesn't compare with the awesome stuff that we've read in Torrey, although I won't deny that Clancy novels are more entertaining (and designed to be, of course) than, well, most of the Torrey canon.  Chesterton and a few others were still pretty entertaining, though...
Blessings to everyone, and thanks for reading my rambling first post.
A servant of El Elyon,
Sam

P.S. I still have a fair number (23) of the "Adventure of the week" francis thread posts in my bubbs inbox.  Does anyone else have any so that we could collaborate our collections and piece it back together somewhat?

And the dreams take flesh! O__O

Just thought I'd share a couple of the wild academic dreams I [Melanie] decided I would try following through on this summer.
First, I followed through on Dr. Yeh's post on Bubbs a while ago about the free Greek course Gordon-Conwell was offering.  So I'm starting to learn (koine - New Testament) Greek.  I'm not being super-consistent and disciplined about it, but every so often I crack the ol' book.  It is exciting and fun.  It brings me joy.  I am enough of a grammar nerd that learning to decline nouns brings me warm fuzzies - "Oo, I've never had to do that before!"

Secondly, well, I'd already decided, long before that, that when I finished listening to The Chronicles of Narnia on audiobook from my library, I'd get the Pimsleur Japanese audiobooks and start learning Japanese.  So now I'm learning Japanese too.  Spoken only.  Sometime I want to also seriously study the writing system, etc., but right now that sort of language study is reserved for Greek.  Haha.  Learning two languages at once is fun!  ^__^  Not as suicidal as it sounds because Pimsleur is such a very different method from textbook study, so my brain kind of devotes different resources to them.

Third, well, I've been working on writing my novel.  Some of you know I got 50,000 words written during NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, in November), but that was not enough for me to finish even the first draft.  I'm at 70,000 some now, about half done, I think. (Yes, I've been working at a much slower pace, but really not nothing, especially since I also worked a little on my other novel, which now stands at about 60,000 words, or about 5% of the way done, haha, that one's going to be much longer.  I know, I didn't want to split my attention either, but sometimes the muse is stubborn and won't let you work on just anything.)  Today I read a book called Writing the Breakout Novel, given to me by my sister Marcy for my birthday.  It contains seriously good novel-writing advice from a professional writers' agent.  So now I have a lot to think about and edit.  Whee!  But it was actually pretty encouraging - it seems I've been doing some of the major stuff really right, and he gives good advice for how to improve other specific things.  Advice is helpful, advice is good.  Now I get to change my perspective.  And improve the beginning.  And edit out some relatively tame scenes.  And... yeah.

Finally, for my Torrey reading pleasure, I decided that I would begin, at my own leisurely pace, reading through the Morgan House curriculum.  So far I've read about five books of The Iliad.  It astonishes me how much more there is in it than I knew as a freshman!  Seriously!  ...If any of you want to join me in this leisurely venture and get some of that discussion itch scratched, it would make my week.

So that's some of what I've been up to in my spare time.  Who knows how many of these adventures I will actually drive myself to follow through on when time becomes a little more scarce... but I'm enjoying them for now.

What have all of you been up to?  What dreams do you want to pursue?  I know Megan's starting to learn the flute... teh awesum... But yeah, now that we're released and can do practically anything we want (haha, yeah right, but in all seriousness, there is some more freedom available to us now... and jobs and the like... but also some more freedom...), what wacky things from your "bucket list" will you start / have you started doing?  Alternately, what crazy adventures do you want to have this week / have you had this past week?

...Hey, anyone in SoCal want to randomly go to the Getty with me?  No, I haven't made any plans yet, but it hit me when I asked that question that I could!  ^__^

-Melanie Joy

News and Prayer Request from Lydia

My family just returned from Palo Verde, CA where we were visiting my grandmother (my mom's stepmom) and holding a memorial service for my grandfather (my mom's stepdad). I know I shared with you about a year ago that my grandpa was sick and we didn't expect him to make it until Christmas. He did make it to Christmas and passed away on May 12, 2010 due to congestive heart failure. 

Grandpa Gary fell in love with Corrine, my mom's mother, married her and adopted all five of her kids over forty years ago. They had another child together, Patrick, who passed away last year in 2009. Corrine passed away due to heart attack in 1994. My grandpa remarried to Margaret in 1996, his now surviving widow.

My grandpa accepted Christ when he was a child, but was resistant to God throughout his life because of the 50's notion he grew up in that said that God thought you were a sinner if you smoke and drank and cussed. We believe he is with the Lord.

Please be praying for my grandma, my mom and my mom's siblings (my aunt and uncles). Grandpa Gary has five living children, Bill, Bob, Jeanile, Dawn, and Glen, nine grandchildren, Bill's two kids, Bob's son, Dawn's two sons, Glen's daughter, and of course me, Tim and Anna, and three great grandchildren.

~Lydia~

Places...

Edit. Posted by R. A. Murphy: So I'm getting ready to go to Torrey Cambridge (i.e. I'm procrastinating. I should be reading right now) and I decided that now would be an apropos time to post places I've been in the country and in the world. Mainly because I want some gauge of what places I need to go to still :D

The States:



Europe:



The World:


create your own visited country map

Quotes of happiness

By popular demand - meaning Ellene's request - I (Melanie) will now proceed to post my happy quotes, mostly from session or other Francis get-togethers, with a smattering of other happiness thrown in!  Enjoy the silliness!  Except for Ellene, who couldn't open it, all the Franciscans should have it in their BUBBS inbox or in Francis Chatter... but anyway, here it is and here it shall remain without contributing to any low space limits!  And yes, it is long.  This is because we had a lot of fun!  :)

“I’m a comma-happy lunatic.”  -Sam

“I’m an ideal Nietzschean woman.” –Sam

“My leg is a child of God!” –Dr. Jensen

“You got forty parking tickets and then you got hit by a car.  The tickets are no longer in effect because you’re dead.” –Dr. Jensen

“When I went in there, I liked the Bible and my classmates; now I hate them both.”  -Dr. Sanders

“What are you doing here?  You belong in the land of green chosenness.”  -Dr. Sanders

“So I just had to get my heresy in for the day, I’m good now.” –Evan

“Obviously I can’t reach out and poke the hate.” –Sarah P.

“You can’t get much more dead than decapitated.”  -Dr. Sanders

“The devil – not the devil – the gospel – “ –Dr. Jensen

“I hate you, Socrates.  Go away!”  -Miss Howington

“Why should I believe that misery craves mercy?  Because they both start with m!”  -Miss Schubert

“Aw, drat.  Your little man won out.” –Sarah P., to Melanie

“There’s somethin’ scratchin’ around in my barn.  It’s obviously either a possum or a dragon.” –Dr. Sanders

“These quotes are delicious, just like synaesthesia!” –James

"Angels do pick up hills and chuck 'em."  -Megan

"...or we're flogging a dead fairy horse." –Dr. Sanders

"These people are rectangular, these people are circular." –Dr. Sanders

"Even if she's wisdom on divine caffeine..." –Dr. Sanders?

"God is a carrot." -Megan

“(Insert name of male university faculty member here) is pretty adorable, I guess."
"Yes, some guys are adorable." -Evan

"Some of the things you say are helpful.  Half of them aren't..." –Ellene?

For this next one, keep in mind that the antecedent of this is water:
"Think of this as the bubonic plague."  -Evan
Yes, that's right - think of water as the bubonic plague.  That's really what he said.

"And the fact that all my skin is falling off." -Evan

"There's a line in hell about that." 
(OK, actually, the punctuation should be "in Hell"... oh well.)

"That was you making the damned jokes."
(referring to a comment in class about "all those damned souls" - meant literally, of course.)

"Except that I'm a fool.  But that's OK." -Evan

"If you eat oatmeal I promise you you will be alive." -Ellene

"There comes a point in every man's life when he needs to stop doing calc and go to bed." –Evan   (Ah, ain't that the truth.)

"I was making a chart of hell and I didn't finish." –me

"My favorite number is pi + i because it's kind of like me: It's complex; it has rational and irrational parts; and the rational part is imaginary." -Peter

"Make me a channel of Your peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive,
And in dying that we're born to eternal life.

O Master, grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love with all my soul."

-Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi


"Oh! Green. Purple. God. That's cool." -Dr. Peters

"In Torrey, we make it less likely you'll be happy - unless you want to be Happy." -Dr. Reynolds

"I am mud! I writhe!" -Marcy

"Think of this [water] as the bubonic plague." -Evan

"I love you. I don't want to take anything anymore. I don't want to trample anything ever again. I did wish that you would stick with me wherever I ended up, but I don't wish that anymore. I couldn't possibly wish my fate on you. I won't wish it. But please... at least... at least, during the time I have left... I want -- I want to be near you until the time when I must go away. I want to be with you till the end."
--Kyo Sohma, Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya

"Je suis, ergo sum." -Moon, The Real Inspector Hound

From Heretics by G.K. Chesterton:

"It is inspiring without doubt to whizz in a motor-car round the earth, to feel Arabia as a whirl of sand or China as a flash of rice-fields. But Arabia is not a whirl of sand and China is not a flash of rice-fields. They are ancient civilizations with strange virtues buried like treasures. If we wish to understand them it must not be as tourists or inquirers, it must be with the loyalty of children and the great patience of poets. To conquer these places is to lose them. The man standing in his own kitchen-garden, with fairyland opening at the gate, is the man with large ideas. His mind creates distance; the motor-car stupidly destroys it."

"Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If anyone doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor. I think his family will find him at the end of the day in a state of some exhaustion."

"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. Hence he comes to us clad in all the careless terrors of nature; he is as strange as the stars, as reckless and indifferent as the rain. He is Man, the most terrible of the beasts. That is why the old religions and the old scriptural language showed so sharp a wisdom when they spoke, not of one's duty towards humanity, but one's duty towards one's neighbor. The duty towards humanity may often take the form of some choice which is personal or even pleasurable. . . . But we have to love our neighbor because he is there - a much more alarming reason for a much more serious operation. He is the sample of humanity which is actually given us."

“I'm not sure how to spit this section up although it does seem that some needs to go in each part...” –Sarah P.

“An apple a day keeps anyone away if you throw it hard enough.” –Steven Colbert

“If you get lost, try going to the other side of the planet.”  -a sign in Super Mario Galaxy

“so, theoretically, I'm in favor of a public spectacle of gory butchery, but practically, I'm against the death penalty.”  -Chris

“yet another way that those barbaric Biolans need to be taught how to properly kidnap someone…” –Chris

Genesis 1-11 session, August 28^th:

Dr. Sanders:  “It’s more containerological.”

Dr. Yeh:  “I’m slowly erasing the cosmos.”

Dr. Sanders:  “Could Adam have made a mistake?  Like here comes a snake, and Adam names it a wombat?”

(speaking as Adam and God respectively) “ ‘Bitey?’ ‘The last one was Bitey.’ ‘All right, Bitey Two.’ ”

“What about the God of Bobby the Philistine?”

“The Sonless God and the Sonful God can’t be the same person.”

“It’s not a swamp of nasty idolatry, it’s just a channel toward the real God.”

"I got some bad news for you, lady. The universe doesn't give a rip about you. It's gonna grind you under its mechanistic heel."

Sam:  “Here’s the nightly God broadcast.”  Dr. Sanders:  “Yeah, and it’s equally available to all human beings – both human beings – on earth.”

Evan:  “Do not eat that tree.”  Hannah:  “The whole tree – don’t eat it.”

Timaeus session 1, September 2^nd:

Dr. Spears?:  “I now know that I don’t know.”

“but it’s really a sort of giant intellectual tank trap.”

(singing) “One of these is not like the others.  Only a boy tree frog knows.”

Me:  “We mixed Same and Different.  It was hard.”

Timaeus session 2, September 4^th:

Dr. Reynolds:  “Never marry the guy who can’t smile about the Christmas candle.”

“It’s just dumb.  You should get drunk and make it go away.”

“So Plato’s singing (sings), ‘It’s a jolly holiday with Moses!’ “

“Ha ha, you’re taking this worthless money!  I’ve fooled you again!”

Aristotle session 1, September 9^th:

Megan:  “Principle of pre-stuff.  Stuff is the stuff.”

Dr. Sanders:  "If God made something from nothing, where did He get the nothing?"

“When I say the inferno I don’t mean Dante’s work, I mean hell.”

On why everything changes except Aristotle’s ideas:  “ ‘Cause his ideas are nothing in particular.”

“If you try hard enough, you can be anything you can be!”

“It’s kind of sad how much you lose when you become a horse.”

Aristotle session 2, September 11^th:

“cow-apult”

“cattle-pult”

Rachael:  “No, you giggle while you’re dying.”

Dr. Jenson: "The bear habitat that I am going to build in the alley behind my house..."

Megan: "And the tumor turns into the earth!"

Aquinas session, September 18^th:

Sam:  “That’s not blue!  False advertising!”  Dr. Campbell:  “We just wanted to see a big strong man write in purple.”

Dr. Campbell (as a fake pull question):  “If you take all the atoms out of a rock, do you still have a rock?”

Megan:  "So He creates His creation machine and then plugs it into Himself?"

Bacon session 1, September 23^rd:

Evan:  “Jesus loves you [Morgan House, compared to Gentiles] too, just through us [Johnson House, compared to Jews].”  *Dr. Yeh makes a comment about the “heresy meter.”*

Evan: "Socrates was the master ninja of deduction."

and a little later... 

"I mean, Jesus was a ninja."

Bacon session 2, September 25^th:

Sam: "Wait, we just went from natural philosophy to Ratatouille..." Me: "...in about five..." Me and Rachael: "...seconds."

Evan:  “I’m used to being attacked by lots of girls at once.”

Newton session, September 30^th:

Miss Hocke:  “What happens if the fixed stars move?”  Mary:  “Then we all die!”

Traherne session 1, October 2^nd:

Sam:  “The liver’s pretty cool.  This is way cooler.”

Traherne session 2, October 7^th:

“post prandial perseflage”

?: “I miss Mr. Plato.  Where is he?” Hannah:  “He got a job!”  ?: “What?”

Dr. Yeh:  “Yes, Felix the Cat means Happy Cat.”

“Let’s go to the third century.  Every time I say that I feel like I’m traveling through time.”

Colleen:  “I don’t remember anything you said.  I am so sorry.”

Edwards session, October 9^th:

Dr. Sanders:  “There’s the world.  It’s like a grid.”

“God’s got a lot of potential.”

Sarah R.:  “No, He’s not lonely!  He’s got the triangle!”

Dr. Sanders:  “Whatever the Father does with the Son, it won’t scratch the same itch as creation.”

“Like one of those chocolate fountains – the greatest possible good.”

“Mr. Freeman was talking smack about how the Son was too weak to beget the Father.”

Haydn session, October 14^th:

? (sniggering):  “It’s [the cow is] so stupid!”  (Miss Schubert wants a more charitable description.)  Mary:  “It’s kinda slow.”

Blake session, October 28^th:

Mary:  “I wish he were still alive, so we could say, ‘Blake, what were you thinking?’ “  Vicki:  “ ‘What were you taking?’ “  Rachael (laughing):  “She has hit the hammer on the nail.”

Prelude session 2, November 4^th:

Lydia:  “I love sunrises.”  Dr. Sanders:  “But look what it… It burns away the imagination!”

Dr. Sanders:  “I was reading from the yada-yada version.  Blah blah blah is a later rendition.”

“Fairly precise about what he’s ambiguous about”

Emerson session, November 6^th:

(Hannah describes an old conversation)  Hannah:  “I have a tension headache.”  Hannah’s roommate:  “I have attention deficit disorder.”

Moby-Dick session 1, November 11^th:

Dr. Vincent:  “Master it?  I thought he tried to kiss it.”  Rachael:  “Close enough.”

Darwin session 1, November 18^th:

?:  “Maybe the girls don’t like long necks.”

Megan:  “Man wants to put himself up there where Hitler is.”

Darwin session 2, November 25^th:

Dr. Sanders:  “I’m from the South, I don’t know if all Yankees know about lard.”

“He wrote a book called Origin of Species where you can’t tell what a species is.”

Frost session, December 2^nd:

Miss Schubert:  “What human hibernates?”  Megan:  “It’s a lifestyle choice.”

…and I seem to have slacked off on writing quotes for our Ezekiel sessions – however…

Ezekiel session 2, December 11^th:

Me (singing to the tune of “Father Abraham”):  “Ezekiel’s temple / Had many cubits / Many cubits had Ezekiel’s temple / I am one of them / And so are you / So let’s just praise the Lord! / One cubit …”

Morgan House sessions:

Aw, man, looks like I was really lazy about writing down quotes on Fridays!  But here are a couple…

Edwards session 1, September 12^th:

Dr. Sanders:  “Dan and Ed’s Excellency Adventure”  (Dan = Dante, Ed = Edwards)

Blake session, October 3^rd:

Mary:  “Poetic genius is electricity.”

Dr. Campbell:  “I’m just reading Blake, the same way you’re reading Blake, which is, ‘What are you saying, Blake?’ ”

Context lectures:

           

            “Intro to Greek Philosophy,” Dr. Reynolds, September 11^th:

            “It’s like trying to marry Sauron and ending up with Gollum.  It’d be OK if you were the Dark Lord…”

            “Protestants in Purgatory,” Dr. Sanders, September 30^th:

“Not only did I slap Brother Odo that time, but I always want to slap Brother Odo.”

“The smokers have the third level.” … “No, no, smoking doesn’t send you to hell, it just makes you smell like you came from there.”

Ezekiel context lecture, Dr. Sanders, December 4^th:

“Hebrews is basically the writer holding the Old Testament and shouting ‘JESUS’ at it.”

Other times:

Lydia, in the circuits lab, doing Classical Mechanics homework:  “Newton, why weren’t you just stupid?”

One night in the Circuits lab…:

Me:  “You don’t expect to have something that we can see from earth named after you, do you?”  Lydia:  “Well, only on very special occasions.”

Lydia:  “Well, that explains a lot.  People from Washington are on the moon.”

Sarah P.:  “The moon makes a very loud noise when you hit it.”

Lydia: “I have moon dust all over my hands, actually.”

Sarah:  “Smart people never die.  They simply move to the moon.”

At a certain party…:

Kate, to Sam:  “You’re not Cleopatra, are you?”

Ellene:  “I am crazed!  I’m so excited!”

Lydia and Shaya in tandem:  “Oh!  Oh! I know!  How about if you fall down on the beach with someone to pick you up with fireworks and a full moon and red roses!”

Me to Sam:  “I wish you could get manly and emotional.”

Janelle, in Facebook chat, about Mrs. Rinks:  “you know at night she went zzzz....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA...zzzz”

Me, in Facebook chat, to Chris, summarizing our day’s conversation:  “You will take advantage of your boringly monocultural kids to have people to play oldstyle roleplaying games with, and along the way you will master trig and calc for a second time, eat Fuji apples, train your cats to speak Russian, and complain about this sentence. :)”

And that is all the quotes I have for you today, though not all the quotes I've got somewhere!