Randomness to let you know I’m still alive

Posted on | 3 years, 8 months ago, around lunchtime | 2 Comments

* How odd. Spectrum Magazine’s blog linked my commentary about the YFZ Ranch and how it was handled by the Texas authorities. I’m a little surprised by the lead-in (the post had nothing to do with the anniversary of Waco), as well as by all the comments there (they don’t seem to have anything to do with what I wrote), but, erm, well. Whatever.* That’s fine, I guess. And I will now very carefully restrain myself from making a sweeping statement about SDAs being prone to missing the point and/or thinking it’s all about them.

* You Don’t Mess With the Zohan — was awful, but sort of entertaining. I left the theater exhausted by so much exposure to Adam Sandler’s package, and craving hummus, and sort of wishing I had some cool disco to dance to (right there, on the spot).

* Kung Fu Panda — was really great. It was made even greater by being seen in the company of my husband and Ellen, plus a whole theater full of enthusiastic little kids. It was streamlined for the young’uns without being dumb and spoon-feedy; the animation was exceedingly fine; and Jack Black was truly wonderful … which is not something you’ll hear me say every day. The “moral” of the piece is one for the ages: Find something you love and chase it, and make it work with what you’ve got.

* I’m still doing okay. I’m taking my antibiotics and such, and there have been no further activities on the part of any kidney stones. My back feels sort of tight and uncomfortable, but I’m not really in any pain. It’s a sensation not altogether different from having worn a corset the day previously. I’m still sort of taking it easy, though — and trying to get a few writing projects off the ground over here; so please pardon me if updates are a little sporadic for a few days.


* Likewise, I was bemused by one of the later commenter’s insistence that I must’ve been raised in/rebelled against a quasi-libertarian fringe sect of Adventism, which is not at all the case. I was given a mainstream SDA upbringing, and the high school I attended wasn’t one of the oddball extremist resorts — it was Forest Lake Academy, an institution that’s been one of the denomination’s educational flagships for decades.

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2 Responses to “Randomness to let you know I’m still alive”

  1. Ben McArthur
    June 11th, 2008 @ 10:00 am

    Cherie:
    I got the link from Spectrum. I’m happy to see you are still writing. You were always one of the most entertaining students at Southern. I’ll expect the Great American Novel soon.

  2. Cherie
    June 11th, 2008 @ 1:10 pm

    Oh my gosh! Hello! Holy cow! Thank you so much, and it’s nice to hear from you, of course — even if it’s via an internet post that didn’t seem to make much sense at the time :)

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