30 June 2009

My Morning Treat

The strangest thing happened on my walk up to work this morning: 

It was about 7:55 (per usual) and I'd gotten about half way when I realized something was amiss. Looking around nothing appeared out of its normal place. Half-a-dozen cars were in their customary, early-bird parking spaces beneath the half-a-dozen trees in the parking lot; the maintenance crew was darting around in their converted golf carts; the black birds were squawking. I couldn't figure it out. 

Then shifting my perception to skin on my back, I realized there was no sweat there! I couldn't believe it! Almost in a panic, I thought to myself, 'Am I somehow so thoroughly dehydrated as to not be able to sweat?' Then, as if awaking to the reality of a fairy land, I noticed that the sun was behind clouds and the morning temperature was not in the nineties. And, though the humidity was still high, I was actually comfortable. Walking into my office, I turned on my fan, but not with the normal sense of desperation, but simply as it is my daily habit.

Praise God for these simple pleasures!

25 June 2009

Ultimate Frisbee

In case any of my readers in the Dallas area are unaware, we play ultimate frisbee on the UD rugby pitch every Thursday and Sunday at 7:00pm. Don't worry if no one's there at 7:00 as our group is notoriously late at getting started...


But to my comrades in ultimate, be forewarned, I've purchased some arm sweatbands for summer ultimate play. The idea is that not only will these cut down on hand sweat and thus provide for a firmer grip when throwing, but also make me faster than Ryan, more agile than a puma, higher jumper than Spud Webb, and more graceful than Kristi Yamaguchi.



24 June 2009

The Hobbit

I've found that I pretty much need to read something light and fluffy before I can try to go sleep, when I get home from the library at night. So this week I hopped around in the hobbit. Monday night I read the chapter about the Trolls, and yesterday read the last 4 chapters or starting with the account of Smaug's death. My favorite part, I suppose, is Bilbo's reconciliation with Thorin.

"[In reference to Bilbo] If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -- Thorin Oakenshield, King Under the Mountain