Monday, April 28th, 2008
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5:19 pm - New blog
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
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8:55 pm - where am i?
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Well, I got a "livejournal nudge" from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jodamiller back in January, and I'm finally getting around to posting.
I won't be around on lj, but if you want to know how I'm doing/what I'm doing, just go here: www.steindom.com!
It's the website my husband and I made. Enjoy, and be sure and drop me a note to say that you stopped by!
Peace out lj-ers!
current mood:  excited
current music: Cards game
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
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3:24 pm - nevermind
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ok, so i wasted an entire afternoon on lj last friday afternoon and it felt awful. so i don't think i'll be around! sorry to disappoint. i'll just have to see you guys in the real world :)
current mood: waving my handkerchief
current music: office noise
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Friday, November 5th, 2004
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2:54 pm - update/journal/update
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ok, so i'm not indiscriminately deleting posts today. only the most awful ones and the rest i'm just making private. it's just so tedious and time consuming. i wish i could just do a mass action on them or something.
what a beautiful day. happy friday, people. i love God.
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11:05 am - princess
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so this morning i'm at work and the copier jams on someone. so i start fixing it and being helpful, which became about a 5 minute process. and then i look up and realize that there are 3 able-bodied male coworkers about 10 feet away just having their own personal conversation and ignoring my struggles.
yes, i am totally spoiled.
but at the same time, i commented jokingly to them that i fixed the jam all by myself, not to worry. i wasn't mad at all but was really just contemplating the whole situation in my mind. and then one of the guys came over and told me that if i needed help with something that i should just ask.
the whole thing was very light and not a big deal, but it just made me think about the role of men and women and how it's playing out in our culture today.
current mood: blissful
current music: background hip-hip from the adjoining cube
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Thursday, November 4th, 2004
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1:56 pm - it's me!
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ok, i'm back.
let me just say that my motivations for being here again are totally ridiculous. here they are:
*blogging is really "in" now and i feel like i should get back to it so i can say that i've been doing it before it was cool and still have credibility because i'm still doing it
*i'm having a rough day at work and i'm avoiding all responsibility
*the lisagrubbs listserv is trying to resurrect itself and i'm waxing nostalgic
*i have lots of exciting news to report
*i haven't posted anything since january and that's just plain sad.
so i'm laying down some ground rules for myself. no communities, and a friends list that's irl-only. okay? okay. i don't have much time to spend on here but i really do miss it...
current mood: overwhelmed
current music: jars of clay
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Saturday, January 31st, 2004
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3:51 pm - this is mostly accurate
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Thursday, January 29th, 2004
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2:47 pm - i wake up every single morning but it never gets easier
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so i am in supreme procrastination mode.
some things i have to do in the next four days which i am completely unprepared for:
*tonight: throw a dinner party and give a talk
*tomorrow: go to a really important meeting
*saturday: give another talk and have some other related stuff ready
*sunday: give yet another talk in the middle of a youth group activity i have yet to prepare
my phone just rang in regards to tomorrows meeting, which i am not ready for, and i just avoided the call because i know sh es going to ask me if ive done the stuff i was supposed to do.
but instead of actually trying to get stuff done im sitting on the computer typing an lj entry.
oh, and i slept late too. why? why!
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current mood: procrastinatory
current music: lots and lots of songs
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Sunday, January 25th, 2004
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12:57 pm - i got this thing that i consider my only art
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i was watching tv the other day and there was a commercial for the news on that station, which i think it ridiculous to begin with. but the music was crystal method. how weird is that? crystal method playing in the background while theyre showing all these middle-aged smiling faces.
in other news, i had a dream the other night that i was hanging out wtih sting at a dance recital. it didnt occur to me to ask for his autograph until the end, and by that time he had found another lady to chill with.
current mood: iced in
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Saturday, January 24th, 2004
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10:18 pm - i dont think i should have ended with that
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seems like lots of ppl are having the post-graduation freakout. its a mild thing, but on the inside were all screaming.
also i just read jabberwockys post abt 2003 and it got me all nostalgic.
if i had to sum up the year in some way or give it a theme i might use my love life bc thats sort of ironic in that it was insanely uneventful in comparison to other years but at the same time crazily monumental with respect to growth and depth and, most of all, seriousness.
im referring mostly to the fact that i got both engaged and unengaged in 2003, but also about the vocational thing that bookended the engagement. i dont know whether to laugh in amusement or sigh at the beauty of it all.
on a related note, i saw cheaper by the dozen today with jenna, the 6th grader that i tutor, bc i am watching her for the 5 days her dad is out of town. i know im going to lose all possible credibility for this, but i just loved that movie. or course it was anything but a work of art, and as far as "films" go i wouldnt even mention it. but for pure feel-goodieness the recipe for me just couldnt get any better. i wouldnt recommend it to anyone i know (unless maybe they had kids), but i really enjoyed it a lot.
so much for being deep.
current mood:  contemplative
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9:25 pm - : )
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2004
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11:04 pm - it may be egotistical to post this, but it /is/ my journal
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a reply to this post, which was a few days late and i didnt think anyone would see it and i thought it would spark some (more) comments...
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first of all, asparagus.
that said, i think whats lying beneath this post is the posters reason for writing it in the first place: frustration with the workplace, in that it is (should be) a catholic atmosphere but instead is some diluted, somewhat twisted version of such a thing.
one thing that i think is very interesting is the opposing comments that "religion is very personal/private" and the other, "my religion is a part of my life and not just personal/private". i think its interesting to note that those belonging to organized religion usually take up the latter opinion, and those not, the former.
which brings me to something else: my religion /is/ a part of me, and my religion dictates that it permeate every aspect of my life. now, we live in a world where "tolerance" of others is paramount. how tolerant is it when i have to feel uncomfortable living my own religion? seems paradoxical. or something.
i dont want ppl to feel squeamish when i talk abt religion or do some religious action. its a part of me. its not meant to infringe upon anyone. i dont want to do that. that just wouldnt be very nice at all, and well, thats against my religion ;)
current mood: spunky
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10:38 pm - its a long story but heres the short part
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ok so i was talking with some friends and we were discussing charity (as in the theological virtue love, not as in giving stuff to poor people) and how its really really hard to be charitable all the time. even (or maybe i should say especially) really catholic people have trouble with it and often dont even realize it. i say "even really catholic people" because love should really be the focus of our spirituality, you know? so it looks bad when we dont live up to that.
in fact, i think most ppl would agree (as in, of course they dont need to be catholic) that we could all (everyone) be a bit more charitable and the effect would be a good one, i.e. making the world a friendlier place and all that fuzzy stuff.
so i just got back from this conference where charity was not at all lacking and i was talking with these other women about how we should all strive for charity all the time...and then i came back to stl and realized how uncharitable "the world" is, and how sometimes even the folks you expect to be charitable arent sometimes. just in little ways, but my eyes have been opened to it and ive just been noticing it lately.
boy, am i rambling. usually im fairly good at being concise. anyway, the point is, anytime im being uncharitable, i want someone to tell me because sometimes i dont really catch it all the time or im blind to it for whatever reason. but it would be maybe a little awkward for friends to police each other in that way, so heres what i want to do. whenever im being uncharitable, i want someone to say "asparagus." thats the code word for me to stop what im saying and start being more charitable. anyone else want to play? i want to work on charity and i need some helpers.
ps, i dont post much here so i guess this is mainly for ppl i see face to face but it works for lj too.
current mood:  tired
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Monday, January 12th, 2004
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8:01 pm - you got to hide yr love away
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graduated officially last sat. loved the party. so many people. just all out a great day.
going to detroit wed-sun for a conference--basically for angel for a day...challenge and ytm really. im psyched. ill get some time away, retreat-esque but learning too and businessy. i feel almost like a professional.
also am embarking on a new endeavor--spearheading work on the peers project here in stl. writing the grant and getting the money in place should take a while but if it all falls into place ill soon be getting pizz-aid. itll take a few months at least but im willing to give it a shot. i just get so excited whenever i think/talk abt it.
job front: st. clements a no-go. they decided to go with two part-time core members (weird)...our lady of the pillar still a possibility. and then theres life skills ... ive stopped freaking out bc im back to tutoring again now that jenna is back in school from brea k. also might be very very very part time at st. peters before long...well see what the money looks like and if anyone else is interested.s
current mood: excited
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8:00 pm - rock goblet, or: me too
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2003
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9:15 am - to joshm
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i cant reply to yr reply abt the public disturbers bc of the crazy formatting. my comp cant handle it.
anyways, basically i did the seinfeld "half turn" and some sushing. anything beyond that and i felt would be as disruptive or more disruptive than them.¿
current mood:  busy
current music: movie: xmen
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Monday, December 29th, 2003
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9:29 am - watched two towers again last night
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so i had a nightmare last night that "they" (the ambiguous they) were testing bombs...i guess it was the u.s. military, i dont know. anyway, one of the bombs was hidden in this christmas tree and it was my job to set the bomb up and we would then test the blast radius, how many ppl died and were wounded, etc. (apparently i had been coerced or something into doing this whole bomb thing by the military so i wasnt entirely responsible for the bomb victims deaths). well, it turns out that i was putting the bomb on an airplane and then it starts taking off and i realize that the bomb is likely to destroy the whole plane. but then i find out that its a little bomb and will only blow up part of the plane and that theres a secret upstairs bombproof bunker that i can hide in. apparently there were some other ppl in on it too bc they were in the bunker when i got there. all of a sudden some of the passengers found out that the christmas tree was a bomb and they were going to shoot me. so i locked myself in the bath room in the upstairs bu nker (keep in mind that this plane looks an awful lot like a house) with a handgun just in case. then i hear this announcement that the plane is out of control and they are going to crash into something but only on the rear right s ide of the plane and everyone not in that area would be fine. i realize that the bathroom is in the back of the plane, and even though its on the left side, its likely that the bathroom will be hit. so im left with a dilemma: stay in the bathroom where i ll be safe from the horde, or go out of the bathroom and maybe get shot and die or have to shoot someone else and possibly kill them. the second option sounds very unappealing and i decide for the moment to stay in the bathroom. then i got really upset wi th myself and asked myself why i cant be courageous like everybody in lord of the rings...
current mood: tired
current music: police
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Saturday, December 27th, 2003
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9:40 pm - tonight tonight
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ok so sorry abt all the crazy quizzes and posts and whatnot. im making up for 3 weeks absence from lj.
i am babysitting tonight and its kind of weird...its in soulard and its a 3 yr old boy who is supercute and who ive babysat before an whatnot...but heres the twist: his great grandma is here too, in town for the holidays. she is just kind of hanging out while i spend hours on the computer. its kind of funny and weird at the same time.
anyway, so my regular friends are pretty much all out of town and some other normally out-of-town friends are here. of course this brings with it some amount of requisite drama.
tonight sarah wants me to come out to nicks which creates problems in and of itself bc my ex-fiance and his friends like ot go there all the time since i introduced them to it. so i havent been there since weve broken up and made the temporary "no contact" rule. with that, nicole and katie are going to be there. i like katie, but i really dont feel like dealing with nicole. shes so superficial and i think im going to have to deal with her tomorrow night at the nerinx hall 5yr reunion anyway. i do want to go out though bc i didnt go out last night and am craving some nicks time with darts and whatnot. maybe ill see if john wants to come...
current mood: undecided
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9:32 pm - quiz crazy today
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hmmm...i think i did this quiz a few months ago and i got rafael. what changed?
Michael. You're most like the ArchAngel of
Defense. You like to hit things, and you like
naked people, preferably cute naked people. A
real down-to-earth angel who likes frogs and is
easily distracted by bright, shiny things.
Which ArchAngel are you most like?
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current mood: intrigued
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9:17 pm - interesting!
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happy
crazy