Not much going on here of late.<\/p>\n
Missed spending Easter with my family at the beach, but had a pretty good day skiing and eating copious amounts of food with good friends, so that made me happy. The job search continues. Unfruitfully. I go through phases of being guardedly optimistic, apathetic, annoyed, and depressed. Annoyed and depressed seem to be winning out most of the time. Financially and emotionally, I need something to happen. Post haste.<\/p>\n
Been reading alot. Rereading stuff I’ve read before and love. Reading new things for the first time. Some of it is crap (I’m looking at you military-thriller positing an islamic alliance bent on conquering the Mediterranian) and some of it is really, really awesome. (Thank you Neil Gaiman for American Gods<\/span>. Just tremendous.)<\/p>\n This weekend will be spent in DC visiting some good friends. Can’t wait to see them.<\/p>\n Oddly enough, I’ve been thinking a bit about g-o-d lately. When Nick and Kate were in town, had a pretty good drunken discussion on my views on faith and it seems to have snowballed from there. Today I watched a pretty good documentary (The Education of Shelby Knox) about a highschooler fighting for sex ed in her school district that taught more than abstinance. She faced a ton of opposition from the decidedly christian, conservative community. Her opponents were so sure they were right. More and more, certainty annoys me, confuses me. Nobody has a monopoly on absolutes. Anyway, the unquestionable certainty of this highschooler’s opponents that they knew the mind of god popped a phrase into my head. I’m sure I didn’t invent it, but it goes like this: man creates god in his own image<\/em>. Have to think on that more. Have to write on that more.<\/p>\n But not tonight. Tonight it’s late and there’s a book waiting for me resetting the Robin Hood tale in Wales during the Norman Conquest.\u00a0 Book’s not going to read itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not much going on here of late. Missed spending Easter with my family at the beach, but had a pretty good day skiing and eating copious amounts of food with good friends, so that made me happy. The job search … Continue reading