a - 18 september 2001
From: "Anne"
Subject: Calgon, take me away!
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:27:49 -0500
Hi, Michele!
Talking about God answering our prayers so we’ll stop asking, I recall a story in the Bible, that I believe Jesus told, about an example of a woman who would go to a judge every day and ask him for justice for a wrong done to her. Finally the judge gave her what she wanted because she was starting to weary him by asking him everyday. As I wrote that, I realized that asking everyday shows how important what you’re asking for is to you because it is being consistent - as opposed to asking one time casually then being like, "Well, God, where is it?"
Man! I am having such a string of yucky days! (Could it be my attitude? Nah!) Today and yesterday, my bosses are both hanging out here, saying things in that insulting, "Anne is such a moron - we must think for her" way that they do. Also at work there is a project that I’ve been working on since JUNE involving our business phone line and I keep getting the run-around from the companies that I talk to. NOW, I’ve messed up another project. (Is it *not* time to go yet?) My homework is due tomorrow and it isn’t done - I’ve been working on it for hours here and there when I get the chance but the problems are so tedious that it takes me an hour literally just to figure out how to work the *&%$# thing. The professor told us that we’ll have a test next week or the week after. Super. Plus all this talk of war and a "holy war" is really setting my nerves on edge. (How it burns me up to hear that country of heathen say, "God is on our side. He will protect us." They *must* be kidding!)
But I think things are looking up a bit. I’m getting my hair trimmed this evening, so that’ll be good as long as it isn’t too short! I plan to make it clear that I’m trying to grow it out again, but I know I need a trim to keep it from getting straggly. Also, tomorrow is one of our guys last day, so we’re taking him to lunch at the Olive Garden. Hello, eggplant parmisagnia! Next week is my jury duty - again! I don’t want to be there, but it’ll be great to get away from this job for a week. Oh! And the new Angel episodes are supposed to start next week; I really hope our channel shows them. We don’t have a WB station in this area, so our Fox station airs several of the WB’s primetime shows as an affiliate.
I liked how your cousin met her husband and how he "saw her walking across the parking lot" and just knew that she was the one for him. That’s how I’d like to meet my perfect one too. Sometimes, Michele, I wonder if my expectations are so high that no one on earth can meet them.
Re: the preacher leaving - they did leave their mailing address hoping we’ll all stay in touch, and they said their email should remain the same. We plan to send them a Christmas card. I’m considering emailing my website link to them . . . then I wonder what they’ll think about my declaration that I like shows like Buffy and Angel. I think I told you already that I felt like the preacher thought I wasn’t a Christian; imagine what he’d think if he saw that. I think of those shows as entertaining stories and nothing more. I’ve told my family before that one reason I like those shows is that there’s a hero to save the day; in real life there isn’t a Buffy or a Superman to fly in and stop the bad guy. (Boy, did we see that last week!)
I agree with you about the comments Jerry Falwell made; I think they were inappropriate to say the least. Would he feel the same if one of his family was killed in those attacks? I’m sure Christians were killed that day also. I’m also sure Falwell’s speech didn’t bring anyone to know Jesus; on the contrary it makes all Christians look like prejudiced extremists.
That’s it for today. Talk to you soon! God bless!
Anne
"People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it."
William Raspberry
