Anyway, back on topic. One of my roommates is a vegetarian (not because she is an animal rights activist, she just has never really liked meat), so over the weekend I was looking up vegetarian-friendly recipes** so that we could eat dinner together without having to make different things. I found a recipe for Sweet Potato and Red Pepper Pasta, and I thought What the heck? I love sweet potatoes. I love red bell peppers. I love pasta. Let's try this! And....
It turned out pretty well! It's kind of a strange combination, and it wasn't quite what we expected, but I actually enjoyed it! Paired with a spinach salad, my plate looked really pretty and colorful. And I felt pretty healthy - especially since sweet potatoes are such a power food. I kind of ruined the healthiness, though, by eating a whole pint of Ben & Jerry's Half Baked afterwards, though... It WAS frozen yogurt, though, not ice cream, so that's a little more on the healthier side, right?
Poetry
Creative Writing this semester has been really fun. Of course, I am struggling to write a lot of our poetry assignments, but that's just the way it is. I always come up with something decent, at least. Today in class during workshop my classmates really liked my poem! I was pretty excited about that. The assignment was the write a poem with no verbs and I wrote about cursive. I like to write about really simple, ordinary things and find new ways to look at them.
Another thing we have had to do in Creative Writing, though, is memorize poetry. I previously wrote about memorizing "Carrion Comfort" by Gerard Manly Hopkins. This week, I THOUGHT he had assigned "After Great Pain" by Emily Dickinson - turns out I was wrong, we didn't have to memorize anything after all - but it's really interesting how memorizing poetry and saying it out loud over and over can engrain it into your mind and help you understand the poem better.
Community Group
I lead a community group of sophomore college girls, and I am trying to figure out what to study this next year. When I asked them, they mentioned wanting something deep that would challenge them... which kind of puts a lot of pressure on me, because what if what I end up picking ISN'T deep? Do y'all have any suggestions on good group studies? Something like the Beth Moore workbooks is probably too intense to expect them to be able to do every day... I hate to give them extra reading on top of schoolwork, so I want to do something that I can prepare and then go through with them. I really like the format of Women of Faith study guides, but I don't know if any of them are what I am looking for.
So, to say the least, if anyone has any ideas of books for me to look at, I would appreciate it!
Awkward Story of the Week
The last thing I will leave you with before I crawl in bed to read some Anne of Green Gables before bed is my wonderfully awkward story of the week. I was going around with a guy, knocking on the doors of students who are interested in being in a Bible study. I knock on one door and then step back to let Brandon talk since it is a guy's room. The guy opens the door and I notice that he is not wearing a shirt and is holding a towel. That's not too big of a deal. Brandon starts talking to him, but there is a girl and another guy in the room and the girl is laughing hysterically. As Brandon is talking, he shifts positions and I see that the guy has answered the door IN HIS UNDERWEAR! And not just boxers that look like shorts - boxer briefs. Tight compression shorts-type underwear. I have a little brother, but he doesn't walk around the house in his underwear EVER. I felt so awkward and I am sure I turned like three shades of red. I looked away, stepped to the side and just kind of stared at the wall while Brandon finished telling him about the study.
*I like to make everything into an adventure or a quest - i.e. cooking, mowing the lawn, riding my bike around town, Greek homework... it makes everything so much fun.
**I could never be vegetarian. No thank you. I will eat almost any kind of meat there is - chicken, pork, beef. I can chow down on steak or a full rack of ribs like nobody's business!
3 comments:
YOU HAVE AN AWKWARD STORY! YAY! Welcome to the "club."
Awkward stories are the best! ;) At least you had a guy with you to offset some of the weirdness there. Some guys are just way too confident :) I totally agree with you on poetry. Sometimes hearing it makes it better. I think some poems are written to be read aloud. I have so many friend who hate the stuff, but I think when you find the right poem it's kinda magic. As far as something deep and challenging but not too long - I have three suggestions. The first is a Priscilla Shirer study. Her studies are WAY smaller than Beth Moore's. But my word, she brings it. Packs so much into a little space. I love the way she teaches the Bible. I'm impressed with Margaret Feinberg's books (her latest is THE SACRED ECHO ... I think). They're consise, book form (not studies) but they really make me think. And she's a creative writer, so that aspect of her writing appeals to me. It isn't as hard-core as Beth or Priscilla, but still great. Great in a different way. And my third suggestion is Jen Hatmaker. She has books and studies - all funny, all well-written, but they don't skimp on the deep stuff.
book suggestion: a few of my friends and i are going to start reading A Call to Die by David Nassar. have you ever heard of that? if not, you should look into it. and if so... then... my suggestion failed.
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