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The sensible side of me says "withdraw from MTYG you fool, you still have law school applications to submit." But I am damn determined to finish. I think I can manage it, and submit the application for both UCLA and Pepperdine by the end of the week. That's the plan. I may have to ask for an extension on MTYG though. I'm flying home Saturday and will be in Holland with no internets for the entire day. When are pinch-hits due?

I think it's official: the LSATs killed my Christmas spirit. I haven't even bothered to wrap the one present I bought (back in September at Dragon*Con), and have no desire to even go shopping. I usually love Christmas shopping. At least my tree is up though.

Last call for Xmas cards, I'm sending them out this week (hopefully they'll get there before New Year!). Leave your address here, bitte sehr!

Like my Xmas icon? rikes santa-hatted it for me! :D

ravenbat, I got your Christmas postcard today, thank you!

An interesting article from the New York Times a few years back, if you're interested in feminist theory: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/national/20women.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

Speaking of feminist theory, I saw about a week ago, one of my friends' facebook status was that they were writing a paper on "whether women should be allowed to be in ministry". That feels like such a nonissue to me, I couldn't believe she was writing about it. So I asked her why anyone would say no to this, and she said some people cite 1 verse out of 1st Timothy

A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

I should note here how I really don't like Paul, who wrote both Timothys, along with a few others. For those who aren't familiar with Paul, his teachings were the most highly quoted in explaining why slavery was okay and why slaves should be loyal to their masters. So yeah, not a huge fan of Paul.

And the further I think on the fact that this person was writing this essay as an assignment for her class, I note that either this professor or the school itself, but putting this out there for students to write, does think it's an issue. And not only that, but it's opening up the possibility for people to say "No, women can't be in ministry" and to be okay with that. Usually when you suggest a topic for debate, it indicates that there is a possibility of correctness in both answers. A college wouldn't assign a topic and then expect all the students to take the same side, I should think. That a college should be okay with arguing against equality for women in society really disturbs me.

I have no heat in my car. This is not good. Usually it would not be a problem around here, but it's been in the 40's ever since I came back from Thanksgiving. F'ing ridiculous. It is not supposed to be this cold in Texas. I don't think I'll ever be able to spend time outside this year. It was too damn hot this summer, now it's too cold. Can't it be 70 for longer than a day? :(

I started reading The Kite Runner earlier this week. It is so depressing and I can't put it down. I'll probably finish it this weekend.

I read on the news today that Austin is considering a ban on roosters in the city. Lucks like Dinner is out of luck (and may be becoming an actual dinner soon).

Things were considering calmer at work today, thank god.

I ordered Masman curry from a Thai place 2 nights, I got there and they handed me Pad Thai. Now that's a mixup.

Law school apps: 4 down, 4 to go. I'm stalling on UCLA (still), Stanford may be submitted tonight depending on how I'm feeling, and I still need to figure out how I'm going to comment on Pepperdine's mission statement. I've just submitted U of M's application and that feels like a big load off my chest.
I've decided to hold off visiting anywhere until I start hearing back from people. Which hopefully should be January. No point visiting a school if I didn't get in.

Work really sucks this week and it's only Tuesday. It was crisis after crisis today, utterly ridiculous. I'm ready for this week to be over.

Thank you to those who sent V-gifts today!

Want an Xmas card from Steph? Leave your address here! I bought a lot of cards and I'd like to use them all. :)

I went to play Doppelkopf at an acquaintance's apartment tonight. His friends happen to be the people from the German club I quit going to last year because I wasn't enjoying myself at all. Discovered tonight that I still don't enjoy myself with that crowd. When I can get a word in, which is rarely, I feel like they're not listening. I'm sure Dennis will want me to join their card games again, but I don't know that I will, if I leave feeling like I was just a lonely fly on the wall the whole time.
At least I got free dinner out of it. And delicious garlic cheese curds.

Gods, I don't know what to do with myself now that I don't have to study for the LSATs anymore. I still haven't written my personal statement for UCLA (still not sure if I want to modify my main essay or write a completely different one based on a particular program they have) or commented on Pepperdine's mission statement, so there is that.

That and holiday fic challenges. I may have to drop one I'm afraid. This time last year, I was finishing up a temp assignment at where I'm working now, then went home and relaxed for like a month. I was a lot less busy then. Plus, I don't think I anticipated being quite so anxiety ridden over law school app stuff. Part of the reason I haven't been able to write is that my mind is just not in it. I have ideas for both fics, I've just been too stressed to write them. :/

Thank you for those of you who sent virtual snowflake cookies! Too bad they aren't actually edible ;)