I’m off to SSP!

6/17/2007 11:23

Sunglasses make my night… er, morning?

Just now, in my last-minute pre-SSP Wal-Mart run, I found some sunglasses that I liked. And they were $5. So I bought four pairs, two of each type (Yeah, there were two.) that I liked.

This is a big deal since buying sunglasses is usually a long, arduous ordeal for me. And since I usually end up liking the $15 kind at Target.


And yes, this also means that I'm still packing (and not sleeping) seven hours before my flight takes off. Sleep is for the weak... so I'll just be plenty weak tomorrow.

6/14/2007 03:03

I wasn’t kidding. Even facebook knows…

Luke Wetzel and Devin Mauney are attending 2008 General Conference of the United Methodist Church.


Also, I forgot a few things when I posted about the DSW annual conference, so here for your conference notebooks is a revised version of document 26.10:


26.10
(revised)


"Just picture annual conference on the beach." –Rebecca


"Jesus is coming. ... He's coming, and do you know where he's coming? All... the way... in!" –Rev. Dr. Stephen Bryant of the Upper Room


conference hookups and the condom bowl


peach lube... and how to make it taste not that bad


pants on the counter


the key to Devin's election: his movie-selection skills


"I bet none of the guys are gonna be having sex tonight!" –one of the girls immediately after we saw Knocked Up


Methodist hold music


Sara: I have it underlined here, but I don't have my glasses. Bishop, could you read this for me?

Bishop Carcaño: Ohh, you young pastors!


theological hot tub

6/11/2007 14:53

We made a Slip ‘n Slide on Hayden Lawn tonight

because we're just that cool.


go!

6/11/2007 01:06

26.00


Conference was so cool


Today we wrapped up the 23rd session of the Desert Southwest Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church, aka my first annual conference! I was an at-large young-adult delegate elected from the Central East District, so I got to be a part of some very cool work of the church in Arizona and Nevada... and some boring stuff too, to be honest.


But one of the coolest things was that we elected Devin Mauney as our lay delegate to General and Jurisdictional conferences in 2008. Since it's the laity's turn to lead General and Jurisdictional delegations, that makes Devin (one of my fellow ASU Flinns) the leader of the DSW delegation. And at least one other conference so far has also chosen a 20-year-old young adult to lead its delegation. It's an exciting time for young adults in United Methodism, to be sure.


Anyway, we as a conference also considered and passed a bunch of resolutions submitted by CCYM (i.e., the youth delegates) that were originally passed at the GYPC.


And at last night's ordination service, the bishop commissioned Rob Rynders, who was today officially appointed to lead our Valley Wesley Campus Ministry. Cool stuff all around.


Throughout annual conference, of course, we young adults (both the at-large young-adult delegates and other young adults who were representing their home churches) conferenced it up in style with such things as our very own "retirement dinner," seeing Knocked Up, hanging out at the hotel bar and/or pool, and kicking back in Katie's hotel room.


However, as always, some things just evade the need for context. They're listed below in document 26.10, which we'll need you all to vote on at tomorrow's plenary, which will be starting at 05:45, not 09:00.


26.10


"Just picture annual conference on the beach." –Rebecca


"Jesus is coming. ... He's coming, and do you know where he's coming? All... the way... in!" –Rev. Dr. Stephen Bryant of the Upper Room


pants on the counter


Methodist hold music


Sara: I have it underlined here, but I don't have my glasses. Bishop, could you read this for me?

Bishop Carcaño: Ohh, you young pastors!


theological hot tub

6/11/2007 01:05

Three-year streak broken in three minutes

I made it through three years of attending ASU without getting a parking ticket from Parking and Transit Services — until this afternoon.

I had parked at a meter around 15:00 to stop by and see the Summer Journalism Institute campers as they toured the dungeon. By the time we had finished that, around 16:00, my meter had run out (although I didn't think of that at the time) and it was far enough into rush hour that I didn't really want to drive back down to Chandler.


So I hung around the newsroom for a while, until just before 16:30, when I remembered that I had parked at one of those famed ASU meters that only go up to an hour. So I walk out to my car to add some more change to the meter and as I'm walking out of Structure 3 toward Myrtle Street, where I had parked, I saw a little PTS golf cart puttering down the street with an employee putting tickets on windshields. And said employee had hit my car about three minutes before I got there.


Lame, huh?


Now I owe ASU $25, which isn't so bad considering I got to hang around the dungeon for a while and go out for a free dinner with the SJI kids, but still I want to get this parking-ticket business over and done with. So I just now (at about 20:00) went onto PTS' Web site to pay the ticket (issued at 16:42), figuring that it would already be in the system.


Nope.


Never mind that the ticket says in all caps, "CITATIONS ARE DUE AND PAYABLE UPON ISSUE." Yeah, not so much... not online at least. Sooo lame.

6/4/2007 20:18

weekends are for dancing

Following up on last weekend's dancing at Club Truck, on the airplane with Jenn and in Sam's pool with Marianne, tonight Kristi and I got our dance on at Amsterdam. Yeah, Amsterdam... an actual club in an actual building. Unconventional, I know.


But it was pretty sweet, despite the not-so-crowded-for-a-Saturday-night-ness. There was a lot of dancing inside, there was some bitching outside between dance sessions, and there was a bit of checking people out all throughout.

6/3/2007 03:07

omg ak on tv

I hear that former No. 1 Threat to America Amanda Keim is scheduled to appear on Nancy Grace tonight (17:00 Arizona time on Headline News).


When she's not endangering our collective liberty (jk, AK!) Amanda covers schools for the Scottsdale Trib. So Nancy may be grilling AK about something education-related, or \ / may be asking '47 about her appearance at the top of my February 2006 Threatdown.

6/1/2007 16:08