praising God

9 of our staff of 48 got laid off today. all of those laid off were non-teachers, but somehow the boom boom room stayed safe. thank you, Jesus.

Movie Review: "Jurassic World"

I don't usually go to summer blockbuster-type movies. I don't know the last one I went to. Until Friday.
Erma came down to hang out with me, and we decided to see "Jurassic World." The other movie that I figured she would've liked to see was "Pitch Perfect 2," but thankfully she had already seen that. Not the kind of movie I wanted to pay theater prices for (especially since this would be full price, not matinee - I also don't know the last time I did that). "Jurassic World" is much more of a big screen movie (and there's something about Anna Kendrick that annoys me).
I enjoyed it. It was just plain fun to be at that kind of movie, and of course, we were right that it's a big screen movie. Not much to say about it, as it's a Jurassic movie, so there's not much of a plot, but I will say that I find it humorous that Erma and I were more concerned about the unrealisticness of a woman running from dinosaurs in high heels than about whether or not it was realistic that she was running from dinosaurs. Also, I don't see Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard (and especially not their characters) together - another thing that was more 'yeah, right' than dinosaurs.
Overall, though, it was fun, and I would recommend it to anyone up for some summer frivolity.

Oh, but one more thing. Fair warning - Chris Pratt is borderline unhealthily (at least for me) woo-woo.

sorry for the lack of segue...

different thoughts on charleston

[disclaimer: this is no way is meant to minimize the terrible racism involved in the charleston shootings. what i'd say about that, however, has been said by other people in more eloquent ways. this is just a different perspective.]

i follow the pope on twitter. in the aftermath of charleston, i found i was really wanting to hear some comforting words from him. nothing. a day full of tweets from him, and nothing regarding the slaughter of innocents in a church simply because of race. as i pondered the why to this, it hit me. this happens every day in various parts of the world. why should he cater to american arrogance and self-centeredness?
every day around the world, people are persecuted because of their race. every day around the world, Christians are persecuted for their faith. this should be a wake-up call not just to pray for and search for solutions in our own country, but a wake-up call to do the same for all persecuted people around the world. for the most part, we don't need to live in fear here in the u.s., yet people do all over the world. praise God for our freedom, and God help us all.

i suppose

i suppose i ought to stop using twitter as my outlet for saying that i hate weddings, considering my cousin just got engaged and she follows me on twitter

two things i am anti-

1. going to bed
2. getting up in the morning

tmi, but oh well

i either have the world's most common or uncommon bra size. i can never find bras that fit me. maybe if i were to try to find not-padded-or-push-up ones i could find one, but i need all the help i can get, so i'm not going that route!