December 2011
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Another Rook Beport: Severe Mercy
San Diego, CA Before he loved Jesus, Garrett referred to the rather needy women in his life as “stage five clingers.” The reference is from the movie Wedding Crashers. Apparently there are five stages of clinging to a man and ranking in at as a fiver is the worst you can be. Though derogatory, I always thought it was pretty funny, so it was no wonder when I added my own spin via the book Severe...
Dec 30th
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Men, and Their Facial Hair
San Diego, CA Facial hair is everything. Men die for it and post Facebook statuses about it like girls post about watching Pride and Prejudice. I’m a sucker for it. To me, facial hair can dictate a man’s hotness. Don’t get me started on the Brawny Man/Lumber Jack combo of a flannel and a nice beard. I go nuts. But. It’s ridiculous. People are putting fake mustaches on sticks and taking pictures...
Dec 28th
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A Rook Beport
San Diego, CA Let Go found its way into my devotional reading rather tenaciously. I’m not sure I had the choice, honestly. The title is horrific and was actually instated by the publisher, not even the original. And don’t get me started on the “Are you struggling?” question on the back cover in 72 pt. font. If I ever read the book in public, I pushed the covers back to back so no one...
Dec 18th
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Homeless Uncle Texting
San Diego, CA Read more on Homeless Uncle
Dec 18th
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COMM 103
San Diego, CA Tonight concludes one of my favorite college courses I have ever taken. COMM 103. It has taken me five and a half years of crawling through college to end up exactly where I am now – somehow doing school backwards and taking GE classes. Cheers. But. This speech class has been a riot. We had to do a “special occasion” speech tonight about people(s) in our class. This came...
Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
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Teachers 2 v. Jessica 2
San Diego, CA I am certain that humans are naturally depraved. Nothing has convinced me more of this than my relationship with teachers. One time, my British Literature teacher threw Pygmalion or Tale of Two Cities or some other book I spark-noted that year at my head. He like didn’t miss, I seriously got hit in the head. Good job jerk, your total depravity point. Read more Teachers v....
Dec 9th
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The Coldest House in all of Southern California
San Diego, CA Early this afternoon I was enjoying an extended morning and by which I mean lots of reading and lots of coffee. Cheers to cancelled classes! I was looking extra dapper, trying to stay warm. Clad in flannel pajama pants that were strategically tucked into my socks at mid-calf, a men’s size large brown flannel shirt that I bought at Kohls (don’t judge me) to have as some sort of...
Dec 7th
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The You’re Pretty Can I Come Visit You Guy
San Diego, CA Avoid that guy. That guy is really great and is just waiting to slightly break your heart. That guy will leave you asking yourself – What just happened? And – did I seriously just introduce that guy to my mom? You’re probably wondering, what do you mean “The You’re Pretty Can I Come Visit You Guy”? Well, mutual friends wanted to set us up but the only problem was – we didn’t exactly...
Dec 6th
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That One Time I Saw my Teacher Naked - Teachers 2...
San Diego, CA I am certain that humans are naturally depraved. Nothing has convinced me more of this than my relationship with teachers. There is some sort of irreverent, fearlessness that develops within a 16 year old girl. You are willing to do and say a lot of things all in the name of fun and expression. Expression especially, I think that’s when I began writing poetry regularly – who...
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
da Gospel
You know that classic plot line that follows a writer who is stuck writing about things they aren’t passionate about or don’t matter? And by the end of the movie the writer finally gets to write about the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Well, I’m the writer and this is my AIDS epidemic… The Gospel is powerful. It has the ability to save as well as get you killed. Take Andrew for instance, that...
Dec 2nd
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Britty Bralazer
I met Brittany, a roommate of mine at a Bible study the gang and I started about a couple years ago. The girls got together to pray and she stopped us and said, “Isn’t it just so great that we’re daughters of an alien King that will one day separate us from our mortal bodies and unite with us in His alien Kingdom?” The flabbergasted faces of our group were inconceivable....
Dec 1st