what made "una cosa graciosa" graciosa

i totally forgot to add one of the main reasons that night was so funny. you remember this:

we work up the nerve to actually go and knock on a perfect stranger's door. and his girlfriend (dari) answers the door. pam and i kind of look at each other. i'm praying that this woman doesn't have a shot gun in her hand. she says "i'm always in my pajamas when you guys come." pam and i look at each other again. i mean, we weren't carrying a pizza or anything, but we smiled and nodded anyway.

lol, well i forgot to mention that at the end of our conversation, she says "yeah, i totally thought you guys where with the church of christ or a jehovah's witness or something. i'm always in my pajamas when they come." we just laughed. and slowly stuck our tracts back in our pockets.

yeah, i'm doing pretty good. this week sure has been busy. i went to quitman with pam on saturday and came back on sunday. ah sweet impetuous youth. her family is great. and strange. but that is what makes them great! i really enjoyed my short stay there, and would highly recommend it.

i had a translating job on tuesday for a meeting with the advisors to the board office here. i felt all important and stuff, you know, sitting in on this meeting. but then the hispanic lady i was supposed to help out didn't show up. so i went down to childcare. the director has the cutest baby ever, so i played with him. i may have a babysitting gig on the side. that would be sweet.

we're doing some babysitting at church tonight to raise money for chapter camp for the bulldog students. okay. bulldog is a campus fellowship affiliated with intervarsity. intervarsity has "chapter camps" in the summer where members of chapters come together and learn and grow closer to one another. nicely caught up now? i thought so.

so, yeah, i think that'll be lots o' fun.

i've been thinking about me and what my interests are and what i'm all about. i'm not very politically minded, but that's probably because i'm ready to 86 this country. is that the right number? well, basically, i want to leave it.

lol

anyway. there was a meeting on monday for all of athens to come together and discuss the poverty of our county. of all the counties in america (159 in the state of ga alone...gotta love 8th grade georgia history), athens/clarke ranks number 5 among the poorest. number 5! that is amazing. we we're outranked by 3 counties in texas and the harlem area in ny. we're poorer than those in new orleans, people completely displaced by a huge natural disaster! in the tuesday meeting, one of the speakers from monday night came and shared what he'd talked about. the poverty line for a family of four is a little more than 19000 and for an individual is a little more than 10000. heck, i barely make 19000 year and i'm struggling. i can't imagine life for a poor family of 4! and a lot of people say that the number is skewed due to the large amount of po' college students. but even if you remove the 18-24 population from the data, we've still got a huge number of those living below the poverty line that is disproportionate to the state and federal levels. it's just crazy. we're trying to find out why this is.

so, yeah, other than what i think of legalized abortion (let's make it easier for people to be completely irresponsible, and no one is fooling anyone with that "rape, incest" thing because most people are not having abortions due to those reasons), capital punishment (eye for an eye), legalized drugs (i say legalize 'em!), immigrants (heck yeah they should be legal, but it shouldn't be a difficult process for them because that is what this country is about and they make up so much of our workforce) that's about as politically minded as i'll go.

okay, so i really don't know about the legalization of drugs. i can see pros and cons. gosh, maybe i'm more liberal than i thought. spooky.