January 26, 2007> 1:08 PM
random stuff about me
Now, I've done this before, a number of times. I've seen a few people do it lately. I even accidentally found where someone sort of tagged me to do this along with like 80 other people. That, added with the fact that I need to stay regular at the blogging thing ("need" - I know, I want to) - and so here you go, a few random facts about me that hopefully I've never put down here before...
I'm a fairly angry person. I mean, I "have a temper" as they say. It's not always bad and doesn't always show its ugly head, but it's there and hopefully is slowly being transformed into something different.
I'm an only child. That means I have no siblings, physiologically speaking. I remember wanting a brother when I was little at some point, but not to the point that I hated being an only child. It was fine. I was very imaginative as a child. I used to play cards with myself, as 4 different people, and didn't cheat. I don't care who you are, that's purty funny right there.
I graduated high school at 16. Yeah, yeah, boy wonder, I know. Actually, I started school a bit early. I could read some at 4 and was bored, my parents say, and wanted to go to school like other kids, so they sent me to a private school (Catholic school) - straight into first grade (no kindergarten). I was still 4 when I started first grade. I have a Fall birthday so I turned 5 a month or so later but still. So everyone in my grade through school was a year or even two older than me. I never thought about it much I don't think. And if I would've gone to College straight out of high school that Fall of '83 (which I didn't), I would have been a 16 year old College student for a month or so - funny.
I am a saltaholic. You know how other people crave sweet things? Not me, I crave salt. I don't think about eating chocolate or ice cream, I think about potato chips or something like that. I used to carry around one of those tiny round Morton salt shakers in my pocket as a kid, when I was playing, and stop to shake a little in my mouth from time to time. Yes I did. I try to curb that a bit these days but I still appreciate some good seasonin'.
It disturbs and deeply troubles me when I see Christians in the whole emerging church scene continue to go down the road of deconstructing what has relatively always been the accepted orthodoxy of the Church. I see it going more and more in that direction, even in places where it wasn't at first, and the more it goes there, the more I feel disconnected to it. I do not want my name on that list. Are there things that need "redefining?" Sure. Well, probably more like re-looked-at and re-understood. What's happening now is, I'm afraid, something quite more than that.
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