Archive for July 2007

July 29, 2007

English Language Nazis Can Take a Seat

7:32 pm | Culture | Comments: 10

With the addition of “ginormous” to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, what once was a pseudo-word used only by youngsters and Will Ferrell fans has finally gotten clean. I saw the word on a billboard on the way home from church recently, and to be honest it doesn’t look good. It’s an ugly-looking word, for a number of reasons. At this point such speculation is spilled milk of course, and language nazis should just start hoping that “gimungous” or “hunormous” don’t make it into the dictionary as well.

July 17, 2007

Sorting It Out

6:29 pm | Religion | Comments: 3

As I had hoped, going to Covfamikoi did a good job of getting me out of the spiritual rut I so often find myself in. Most areas of life go in hills and valleys; good times and bad. I can only assume the rest of life will be this way. It seems to me the key to navigating such asymmetrical metaphysical topography is to recognize when you’re in a valley so that you can take steps to get out of it. When you find yourself on a hill, the key is to find a way to climb higher. As cheesy as that sounds, in my experience it’s true.

One thing I have perennially struggled with spiritually is maintaining an active and consistent prayer life. Covfamikoi brought this out into the glaring light of day, and a conversation this weekend with CovmaNate revealed part of the problem. He remarked on the fact that many people complain about various things, but how much time do they spend praying about those things? It was a valid question, one that made me realize that my prayer life has for some time been rather unorganized. I have in the past done a prayer journal, which was really helpful. It was basically just a list of items written down, which I would later review and mark old ones that had been answered. A prayer would then essentially amount to a one-person popcorn prayer. The idea of spending large chunks of prayer on one major theme is a new one to me, which I’m almost embarrassed to admit, and it’s an idea I hope to explore in the near future.

July 6, 2007

Two-Way Streets

11:32 pm | N/A | Comments: 2

I was recently thinking about how when a single woman gets pregnant, we say she “got pregnant”. Like I just did, no less than one sentence ago. The phrase is errant, in my opinion, because it only tells half the story. Someone not well-educated in how stuff works might think that the poor woman was walking down the street one day and suddenly found that she was in possession of a baby in her womb. That’s not how it works, as most of you should know by now. The “getting pregnant” aspect should not be separated from the man responsible in the given scenario, and it bugs me when such a separation occurs. Just a thought.

In other completely unrelated news, I’m headed to Covmadoodah tomorrow with the Eshelsons. What is Covmakrakrakrazy, you ask? Beats me.