August 28, 2008
Love-Hate
I have a love-hate relationship with the number zero.
and I shall try and post more often...
August 19, 2008
Hrm.
These two articles provide interesting contrast regarding dress codes in public schools:
and
When I'm not at work, I might attempt presenting my perspective.
August 15, 2008
The strangest things...
Today has been a weird day.
1: I was driving to work this morning and listening to the radio. One of the normal d.j.s was mentioned as being gone because she took the day off to move and how it was such a blessing for her and her worship pastor husband who would have a new job and she wouldn't have to commute an hour to work each morning. Now I know this lady's name was Julia and I know the station is based from Waterloo--and hour north of Cedar Rapids. So all these little details suddenly clicked together and I realized there might be an odd coincidence that we are taking possession of the house today from the sellers--the wife whose name is Julia and the husband who is a pastor and they were moving to Waterloo, and leaving the house today.
So when I got to work, I looked at our house paperwork and checked the radio station's website, and sure enough the names match. It's just bizarre to think about. We seem to have bought house from one of the morning show hosts I listen to every day on my way to work.
2. This is actually more of a daily/long-term weird issue. I am pretty strong in math...but I have the strangest troubles adding and subtracting numbers with a last digit of 9 using mental math. Really, I keep trying to say that 9+7=18 or 16-9=5. Yeah, silly--but I make this mistake quite frequently.
3. So I'm sitting at work here answer checking and rolling my eyes at yet another of my 9 mistakes when I get an email from one of my team members asking what level of math I used to teach. I emailed her back and a little bit later telling me that she was wondering because they might be needing extra tutors at a place in C.R. The reason this is weird is because I have been planning on checking out the different tutoring companies to do some part-time work a few evenings a week/Saturdays maybe. I want to stay involved with kids and it would be a little extra money. So yet another "coincidence"
I know these two things aren't really coincidences. They're God's way of reminding me He's still here and involved in all the little aspects of my life. They are reassuring to me also in that I feel they serve as confirmation that I am right where he wants me right now with this job and with this house.
*update* Bizarre #4: so I'm driving along to get my afternoon snack and exploring areas of Iowa City, and I see this guy walking down the road with a chinese cone cat with ribbons hanging down and the guy also had on a silk tunic or something with an embroidered dragon. A few minutes later I see some teenagers walking along--one dressed like a cat and the others in some kind of costume. Yet a few minutes later I saw ANOTHEr group of teenagers. Yet the chinese constumed guy still didn't fit with either of these two other costumed groups. I guess there's a theatre or something close by this area. It was the kind of area you might find a theatre in.
