...it's just a jump to the left...
I could probably look up the lyrics and all to one of the Rocky Horror Picture Show's most famous songs, but instead I'll just use it as a handy framing device for this blog post! Ta-da!
So the times they are a-changing here in the DeBord home. Of primary significance is the loss of my job at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, which I mentioned with such enthusiasm in my previous post. Unfortunately, my position was cut, so the Fellowship bought out my work contract, gave me some compensation for the agreed-upon remainder of my work period, and sent me packin'. I must say, I appreciate them ending the work relationship by essentially laying me off rather than just up and firing me, but the loss of the good pay and flexible hours really hurts. Also, the fact that they didn't give me any sort of warning before they did this kind of sucked. But life goes on.
...and then a step to the right...
In happier news: hey, look! It's the holidays! Since "the holidays" start in late September these days, I'll give a recap of what Shannon and I did for Halloween in addition to what we've got coming up over the next month of holiday festivities.
For Halloween, we basically ended up making the weekend preceding the actual day our time to get festive. We spent basically the whole day Saturday doing stuff like baking pumpkin chocolate chip muffins (sweet lord, they're awesome!), carving a pumpkin to resemble Jack Skellington a la Shannon's obsession with Nightmare Before Christmas, making roasted pumpkin seeds, and watching Halloween movies like Hocus Pocus and Nightmare Before Christmas. In short, it was a pretty great weekend.
So now we're rolling around to Thanksgiving. Shannon and I are planning on having a big Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday just for the two of us, but I'll be leaving town on Friday to go take part in my best friend Eli's wedding. I'm the best man, so I'll be all up in that mess, but Shannon has to work on Friday, so she won't be able to come with. As a result, we spent this weekend kind of doing our post-Thanksgiving weekend Christmas decorating. We put up our Christmas tree, my vast collection of Charlie Brown Christmas ornaments, and the few other things we had lying around. It's not exactly a winter wonderland in here, but we had a lot of fun. Plus, this just gave us an excuse to listen to Sufjan Stevens and Vince Guaraldi Christmas music, so it's totally worth it!
...put your hands on your hips and bring your knees in tight...
I've had some fun in my personal reading lately also. I started rereading Plato's Republic for the first time since I initially read it in my freshman year of college. It's been a strange experience reading it after finishing the Honor's program. I feel like I can actually understand the book much better than I could in my first reading. It's also really weird trying to remember what I thought about Socrates and his arguments in my first reading compared to what I think now. I'll have to post about that after I finish the book, since I'm currently only through Book IV. We'll see what happens.
...but its the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane...
Okay, so maybe that last line doesn't really add to the post...
And so, my friends, we come to the end of another post about the misadventures of Gravitas the Magnificent and the tall dude whose face he occupies. I'm currently on the job hunt to make up for my lost position at CBF, and school continues to have its moments of utter despair and absolute enlightenment. My thesis is progressing slowly; I'm still in the preliminary research stages. I'll post about my topic and perhaps some other thoughts that have been churning around in my noggin sometime soon. But until then, my friends...
Let's do the Time Warp again!!!