December 2006
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Merry Christmas
I probably won’t spend much time blogging over the next few days, so I wanted to wish everyone a merry Christmas. Hope you are all with people you love, enjoying some down time together, reflecting on this time of anticipating our coming (again) king. The season can come at us from so many different directions. This year I’ve been able to see beyond some of my cynicism in all the...
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An Inconvenient Truth
A world where sea levels raise 20 feet. A world where school the science curriculum does not include a unit on glaciers. A world where we dry up every summer and flood out every winter. Sounds great, doesn’t it? We just finished watching Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and these seem to be the profound consequences we could all be facing in the very near future due to...
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Relevant.tv
Relevant cleans up their online video section and WOWs us again. Check it out: www.relevant.tv.
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Weekly Reflection - 12/15/06
With Fa La La La La La La La INN finished this week (see previous posts), the office has definitely quieted down a bit. In this type of work, we need to have good periods of down time along with the high-energy programs so that we all stay sane and have time to stay on top of everything. The second half of the week has been great for me because I have had time to clean up things for the end of...
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Fa La La La La La La La INN Recap
At about 9:10 last night, just before Late Tuesday got on stage to play their musical set, I looked across the Viking Union Multipurpose room and surveyed the crowded Fa La La La La La La La INN. Something like 300 students bustled about, filling cups with hot cocoa and coffee, pasting together graham cracker (gingerbread?) houses, clipped and cut paper for Christmas cards, and played games of...
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Fa La La La La La La La INN
Tomorrow the INN is hosting the annual Fa La La La La La La La INN Christmas party up on Western’s campus. Every year, we like to take the last Tuesday night of the quarter and head up to campus to celebrate the Christmas season with our students and the rest of the campus. Festivities include: tons of treats, hot cocoa and coffee, gingerbread houses, a couple of Christmas-y games (Elf...
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Weekly Reflection - 12/8/06
First off, I have to apologize for dropping on my weekly reflections the last two weeks. That whole Thanksgiving and snowed-in bit last week kind of messed up my working schedule, so I dropped the ball on writing about those weeks. So a brief summary of the last 3 weeks: we had a short week for Thanksgiving, followed by a week of icy/snowy conditions that actually led to two missed days of...