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[Mar. 1st, 2013|07:16 pm]
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Row, row, row your Ark
Gently through the flood
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Behold the wrath of God.
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| Crazy conspiracy theory |
[Dec. 20th, 2012|05:00 pm]
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What if that guy in Connecticut was actually a militant pro-gun-control activist who did the massacre in order to inspire more restrictive laws?
I don't know that I believe it, but it does fit what little I've heard.
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| Birth Clergy |
[Jul. 15th, 2012|11:26 am]
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It all started with me understanding birth professionals by analogy with clergy, because I'm that kind of church nerd. A doula is like a deacon, a midwife is like a priest, an OB is like a bishop. For most births, like most services, a midwife/priest is about what you need, but if things get complicated, you might need to call in an OB/bishop.
Then Anna's birth got a little more complicated than expected (not an emergency, just stalled), and we had to have a hierarchical service. Just before she was born, the two subdeacons L&D nurses vested the bishop OB (the hand positions were even similar; Alice was entertained, which did help with the pushing).
Meanwhile, I felt about as useful as a nun in the altar.
We were discussing this later, and came to the conclusion that women have access to a deeper understanding of the Incarnation than men do, just from being at a birth, while the closest men can come to this understanding is the consecration of the Eucharist. In this parallel, the mother and the chalice play the same role. |
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| Anna |
[Jul. 12th, 2012|01:11 pm]
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Anna Theodora was born at 1:26:37 am on the 12th of July. We're all doing well. She was 6 pounds, 11.6 ounces (3135 grams) and 20" (51 cm) long at birth.
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| Movement |
[Jan. 23rd, 2012|02:51 pm]
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I now live in a townhouse in Woodbridge, Virginia. We moved in this weekend; nearly half of the people moving us, including Alice, are pregnant; for future reference, this is not an optimal demographic for moving assistance.
But the townhouse is big enough for children and us and our literal thousands of books, and outside of rush hour, only adds about ten minutes to our trip to church. It's a little closer to my job, but we have yet to see how that commute goes; I took sore leave today. |
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[Oct. 26th, 2011|06:48 am]
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Building furniture seems to have become my new hobby. It has engineering, and a certain amount of art, and physical exertion, so both my body and mind are actively used. Plus, it has power tools. I'm surprised it's not more popular of an activity.
Alas, because I live in a tiny apartment, I can't use my power sander or circular saw without taking everything down and setting it back up outside (which isn't going to happen, basically), and I don't have space to get a table saw, which would be really useful. As it is, I have to have the wood cut at the hardware store. But this does make me plan things out more carefully, which is good, and I can still use my drill.
So far, I built a bed, which I wound up giving to my nephew (Alice refused to get on it. It's four feet off the ground), a set of shelves (oddly sized and a little rough-looking, but functional), and I'm almost done with a more reasonably-sized bed that Alice is ok with. It's a platform bed with four storage bays underneath. The panel to hold the mattress is held up by a |-|-| of 2x10s. I still need to put some moulding on some of the edges, to build the headboard, and to stain it, but I think we'll put it in place tonight, and glue on the moulding later. The headboard can come when we finalize the design (I left space for it to be connected, and we don't have the space and ventelation combination for staining it right now. |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 27th, 2011|10:30 pm]
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That's the second wrong number from Kenya I've gotten. |
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| Юрий Гагарин |
[Apr. 12th, 2011|05:58 am]
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Fifty years ago today, the first man was launched into space. |
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