Confessions of a Coffee Fanaddict

- File taxes
- Send in donations to HQ
- Send in auction money to HQ
- Buy various medicines
- Invest in some capris
- Sort out funds for June/July rent
- Send out emails to supporters
- Go on personal retreat
- Meet high school friends for lunch
- Pack
- Write down important phone numbers
- Forget important phone numbers
- Make to-do list

Only 47 hours and 17 minutes until it begins.....

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Doin' the bull dance....feelin' the flow....workin' it....workin' it....

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Gettin' closer....

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In 5 days, I'm going to leave for North Africa.

5 days!

FIVE DAYS!!!

I've been waiting for this moment for 15 months, and it's almost here!

Of course I have a fairly long to-do list before then:

- File taxes
- Send in donations to HQ
- Send in auction money to HQ
- Buy various medicines
- Invest in some capris
- Sort out funds for June/July rent
- Send out emails to supporters
- Go on personal retreat
- Meet high school friends for lunch
- Pack
- Write down important phone numbers
- Forget important phone numbers
- Make to-do list

Yay, I can cross the last one off!

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It seems we've recovered rather quickly from a snowstorm that swept through the city last Monday. In fact, if it weren't for the occasional little clumps of gross, dirty snow that line the gutters closer to campus, no one would believe me if I told them it happened. I confess, I just don't understand it. Call me a naive Vancouverite, but I'm just so used to, well, you know, it being SPRING during spring? I guess I never fully knew what I was getting myself into when I decided to come to Queen's. I mean, I knew that this obscure, cold, white substance known by the Older Generation as "snow" falls a little more frequently in Ontario than in BC, but this is just ridiculous.

But secretly I enjoy it because it means I can make little snowmen in my backyard.

Anyway, that's not the point of this post. I was planning to draw to your attention the strange case of the bunnies on a hungarian highway:

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's busiest highway, connecting Budapest with the Austrian capital Vienna, was closed early on Monday after a truck carrying rabbits crashed, letting 5,000 of the animals loose on the road, police said.

The M1 motorway was closed around 40 km (25 miles) west of Budapest and could remain closed for hours while police try to capture the escaped animals, highway police spokeswoman Viktoria Galik said.

"There are thousands of them on the road but they're not using their newfound freedom well; they're just sitting around, eating grass and enjoying the sun," Galik told Reuters.

Apparently 100 escaped to freedom whilst another 4400 were recaptured and sent to Budapest. I don't know what I find more delightful: the idea of thousands of fluffy bunnies escaping along a European highway, or the sheer irony of the fact that this happened just a week after Easter, while the images of the elusive chocolate-giver are still present in childrens' minds.

Personally, I'd like to think that one of the freed bunnies is going to become the new Easter Bunny once the old one retires.



Rock on, my fluffy little friend, rock on.

Posted by Rosalind Ambrosine Channelle, III at 8:13 AM | Permalink | Comments

Yeah, yeah, I'll definitely post more on how great my Easter was later this week, but I just came across something that amused me greatly.

Now, I certainly don't wanna become one of those people who uses their blog to post random online quiz results, but this was just too great to pass up.

First, I did a quiz that would demonstrate which theological viewpoint best described me:

You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan. You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists. Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 82% Reformed Evangelical 82% Fundamentalist 82% Charismatic/Pentecostal 61% Emergent/Postmodern 61% Neo orthodox 57% Classical Liberal 39% Roman Catholic 25% Modern Liberal 11% What's your theological worldview? created with QuizFarm.com

It was actually a three-way tie between Weslayan, Reformed and Fundamentalist, which was interesting. I was a little confused as to why there's as much Emergent in me as there is Pentecostal...I've never considered myself much of a PoMo...quite the opposite in fact. But anyway, that aside.

Confused about these results, I asked myself the most important question a doctrinally-wayward young woman can ask: what kind of Christian am I?

I got the following answer from the same website:

You scored as Not Chistian. You're not Christain. Not Chistian 100% Protestant 75% Orthadox 45% Morman 30% Catholic 10% What Type of Christian are you?? created with QuizFarm.com

Hmmm....

Well folks, you heard it here first: this fundamentalist is 100% non-"Chistian". She's not even a "Christain" for that matter. I guess that settles it.

I must say though, I'm not entirely sure what to make of the fact that I'm apparently three-times more "Morman" than Catholic....

Posted by Rosalind Ambrosine Channelle, III at 10:18 PM | Permalink

...He is risen indeed.

Ahh, Easter: my favourite holiday of the year...bigger than Thanksgiving, bigger than Hallowe'en, bigger than my birthday...heck, even bigger than Christmas. Before I became a believer, I loved easter because it's the day my mother would finally let me have Kinder Surprise (I was banned from Kinder Surprises at age 4 because I got the foily-wrap all over the living room...it's still a sore spot: I mean, come on, Mum, I was 4 years old!). I also loved decorating eggs. I remember one Easter when I was younger, I really wanted to decorate some eggs, but my mother didn't want any of the good produce to go to waste...so she gave me some rotten eggs instead.

I don't know what was grosser: the fact that they floated when I tried to boil them...bobbing up out of the boiling water like buoys 50 yards from shore...or the mess they made when they somehow managed to break open and ruin my chocolate the following morning...

But anyway, now that I'm a Believer, my attitude toward Easter has changed. In between gobbling down previously-banned chocolates and decorating rotten eggs, I've started to finally understand what Easter is really all about. I mean come on, the Risen Lord? How fantastic is that to celebrate?

Church was fantastic today. That was partially because I got baptized. I hope to relate more of that story to you next week!

Anyway, I just noticed the time, and it's past 1 in the morning. I woke up at 7 today too...after going to bed at like 3. I'm hoping to wake up before noon tomorrow...err, today...so I'd love to stay and chat but alas, duty calls.

My most humble and sincere apologies for not writing more frequently. I'd love to tell you that I gave up blogging for lent...but that would be a lie. I've just been busy studying/pretending to study. Plus I feel like there's nothing exciting to write about...and if I don't feel like writing, I shouldn't force it, should I?

I hope the faithful 64 of you who are now reading my blog can find it in your hearts to forgive me. Hey, just for hanging in there, I offer this fantastic video:



Cuz your friends don't dance and if they don't dance then they're no friends of mine...

Posted by Rosalind Ambrosine Channelle, III at 10:14 PM | Permalink | Comments