Home stretch!
May. 21st, 2010 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfishIn which our Heroine issues of Brief Missive about the current State of Affairs
For those of your just joining me (or who'm I've recently added to my circle): Hello! Welcome (back) my friends, back to the show that never ends (and never strays from the use of hackneyed cliche).
Recent stuff:
-I just bought plane tickets back to Boston for August 4th- 13th- anyone going to be there around that time and want to meet up?
While buying tickets, I tried to pay, and I kept getting a strange error message: "Name on credit card must be written only with alphabetic characters." The Jet Blue's computers would not accept my legal last name , the one on my passport and birth certificate, as being valid because it contains a hyphen. Who the hell thought that restriction up? Has there been a rash of people spelling their names on credit cards with numbers instead of letters? Like "k1t3w1thf1sh"? What goofy programmer thought that not allowing hyphens was a valid option here?
I doubt it will affect my ticket, since I just ran my two-part last name together so it still looks like one last name, but if it comes up I might get some issues. Crap.
-I am on the last day of the eighth week of a ten week quarter, so I am entering the home stretch and all is well. Reading Tillich comparatively with Hartshorne is kind of amazing and hard, but amazing.
-I am going to be helping plan the 2011 Ministry Conference for the University of Chicago Divinity School, which is several kinds of awesome. I think we picked a great theme, and I am going to be really interested in helping find speakers and plan this shindig.
-I have a summer internship at Faith in Place, which starts very soon and I am very much looking forward to. I miss the rhythm of a working week sometimes. It always felt kind of nice to have time that was just mine to goof off in, rather than an endless parade of books I need to read.
EDIT
-And I might be getting a couch, if the logistics work out.
For those of your just joining me (or who'm I've recently added to my circle): Hello! Welcome (back) my friends, back to the show that never ends (and never strays from the use of hackneyed cliche).
Recent stuff:
-I just bought plane tickets back to Boston for August 4th- 13th- anyone going to be there around that time and want to meet up?
While buying tickets, I tried to pay, and I kept getting a strange error message: "Name on credit card must be written only with alphabetic characters." The Jet Blue's computers would not accept my legal last name , the one on my passport and birth certificate, as being valid because it contains a hyphen. Who the hell thought that restriction up? Has there been a rash of people spelling their names on credit cards with numbers instead of letters? Like "k1t3w1thf1sh"? What goofy programmer thought that not allowing hyphens was a valid option here?
I doubt it will affect my ticket, since I just ran my two-part last name together so it still looks like one last name, but if it comes up I might get some issues. Crap.
-I am on the last day of the eighth week of a ten week quarter, so I am entering the home stretch and all is well. Reading Tillich comparatively with Hartshorne is kind of amazing and hard, but amazing.
-I am going to be helping plan the 2011 Ministry Conference for the University of Chicago Divinity School, which is several kinds of awesome. I think we picked a great theme, and I am going to be really interested in helping find speakers and plan this shindig.
-I have a summer internship at Faith in Place, which starts very soon and I am very much looking forward to. I miss the rhythm of a working week sometimes. It always felt kind of nice to have time that was just mine to goof off in, rather than an endless parade of books I need to read.
EDIT
-And I might be getting a couch, if the logistics work out.
