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1st Level Cleric

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:08:12 GMT

It looks like I'll be tonsured a reader on Sunday.

Eek.

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Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:16:07 GMT

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

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:00:06 GMT

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

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:26:17 GMT

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.

Anna

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:11:56 GMT

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

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:51:17 GMT

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.

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:47:40 GMT

My bishops are alligator wrestling. Kind of.

http://eadiocese.org/News/2011/dec/miami3.en.htm

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:48:20 GMT

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.

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:30:59 GMT

That's the second wrong number from Kenya I've gotten.

Юрий Гагарин

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:58:34 GMT

Fifty years ago today, the first man was launched into space.

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:37:21 GMT

Maybe, now that we're in pre-pre-Lent, it might be almost time to take down my Christmas tree.

Almost.

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:03:49 GMT

My brilliant and beautiful fiancee just got a livejournal: coverednclassy

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:15:45 GMT

I hate passwords.

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 20:50:47 GMT

Every once in a while, it startles me that more than just my parents celebrate Christmas in December. Weird.

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:30:44 GMT

Engagement is weird.

When you're dating, you can be content. When you're married, you should be content. When you're engaged, you don't have time to be content, and shouldn't be anyway, since it's about the most temporary marital status there is. The whole point of being engaged is to not be engaged.

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:39:13 GMT

I've been getting up lately around 5:30 and going in to work early. Alice referred to this as "up before God." So I suggested that I need to leave my morning prayers on God's answering machine. And we came up with:

You have reached God. We're unable to come to the phone right now; please leave your prayer after the beep.
If someone is about to die, press 1.
If someone is already dead, press 2.
For Orthodox morning prayers, press 3.
For Catholic morning prayers, press 4.
For Protestant morning prayers, press 5.
For morning prayers for any other religion, press 6. Three times.

...so far, we haven't been struck by lightning for this. Yet.

Alice, continued

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:17:39 GMT

Now I seem to be engaged. Life continues to surprise me.

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:32:19 GMT

A plot hole in "The Menagerie": couldn't captain Pike have used morse code?

Alice

Wed, 05 May 2010 11:12:18 GMT

I seem to have a girlfriend now. I find this a bit surprising, though certainly not unwelcome.

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:11:34 GMT

In reading Tolkien lately, I've realized that the Silmarillion isn't really fantasy, in the sense that I usually think of it; it's more alternate history. It isn't until you get the Rings of Power that there's anything really fantastical involved; anyone who's devoutly Catholic or Orthodox would agree that the Silmarils, for example, in the book work exactly as they would in real life.

(The point of divergence in the alternate history is that God created Elves, too. Other than that, it's no more than historical fiction; at least until after the First Age.)

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:18:49 GMT

I love weddings; receptions are usually fun (this one was reasonably nice); it's coming home to an empty apartment that I haven't learned to handle. Maybe there's wisdom in getting drunk at the party after all...

Not what I want my car to say

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:08:44 GMT

Thwack Thwack Thwack Thwack KAchunk fwoosh

Trekkieness

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:30:09 GMT

I'm surprised I hadn't gotten around to it before; I'm finally trying tea, Earl Grey, hot.

::Slurp::

Make it so.

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:05:13 GMT

You know it's a good sermon when the priest references Indiana Jones, and not only is it in context, it makes a valid spiritual point.

Out of context, from choir rehearsal

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:19:00 GMT

"...but you hit 'Christ' before I did; I was still in 'Heaven'."

"Ok, let's try 'Raising up Adam' again."
"I keep trying, but I can't seem to do it."