"the LORD God said to the serpent....

... 'because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. i will put enmity between you and the woman'"

a small factor that i have not been able to come to grips with concerning the position at the brooklyn children's museum is that one of the birthday party options is a snakes and reptiles party. a job requirement is the willingness, capability, and excitement towards handling and showing these such serpents to the children. this is definitely something to consider when offered a job. what kind of sacrifices am i willing to make to get to my next career stepping stone?

during the interview, when i lifted my jaw off the woman's desk, i kindly responded "that it wasn't something i would naturally gravitate towards, but that i was willing to learn." so we shall see. maybe i would rather go full time at the paperie. i can trust paper not snakes.

"this is a brooklyn bound Q train. next stop Canal"

subway appreciation lesson 2:
the lost art of chivalry and respect for elders

a good way to get a seat on a full train is to get pregnant. well you have to be showing substantially, and it would be good to be able to stay in that state for more than 12 weeks, but its a sure way to get a seat. you see something that you have to keep your eyes open to are the very few instances of people giving up their seat. here is how it tends to go. train stops, doors open, people exit, people previously on the train grab seats as people are exiting, before new people entering have a chance to get a spot, then comes in any of the following, pregnant woman, older lady (maybe 65 but clearly a new yorker who has done this for that long), old old man on cane or just decrepit. usually someone will give up a seat for all of these people. i think that is worth appreciating. it is just too bad i havent come across that fine gent who is willing to sacrifice his precious seat for me. oh well. now an exception to this situation is when a woman gives up her seat for one of the above mentioned, and there is a fine man then willing to give you his seat. and there is of course those men who do still have a small drop of chivalry left in their bones who when a seat comes open allows a lady to sit rather than taking it for themselves. i guess you could say the rarity come more when the man has to stand up and give up his spot on the bench.
questions? comments? concerns?

week 7

ok well the interviews went well for both nikki and me. they were just normal interviews with no major information given. i might know something next week, and nikkis was hopeful but not promised. so we will just wait and see.

i went to community group. it is really good. we really like all the people there. it is funny though because it is supposed to be a coed group and there are only two guys. one who is married the other who didn't show up tonight. so we will see about that. it is sad for them if one of them misses. i know rick who is of the couple is going to be out of town for about 3-4 weeks, so that leaves the other guy to come to our all girl group, so we need more guys for sure.

i am starting a new book today. it is called "a tree grows in brooklyn" by Betty Smith. does anyone want to join me? i read the first couple of pages and i am already excited about it. it is in the modern classic bracket of book life. honestly i dont know what it is about, but i have not stopped hearing this title since i have been here, and i live in brooklyn, so it seems all too appropriate for me.

i would write more, but my evening was drastically altered when i went to the lobby to check the mail, and got into conversation with our night watchman Deitrich. He is our friend, but he talks alot. alot. alot. about alot of stuff. random. know it all. he is a story for another day. since it is late. because he talked alot.

goodnight. thanks for praying for our interviews.

interview 10 am

please remember that my interview is at 10am tomorrow morning, and also know that nikki is going to an interview at 12:25 for a counselor position at the crown heights community center. yea! so it would be amazing if the lord answered our prayers of our job needs tomorrow. both these positions are within walking distance of our home, which is basically unheard of here in nYC especially if you 1)move without a job, and 2) you live where we live. we don't exactly live in job opportunity central. more like the "up and coming" of nyc. anyway please pray for both of us!

its a small world afterall

well first of all this bible study we went to was great. it was very comfortable and fun and nikki and i really liked the people. not to mention that 3 people there we had pretty close ties to in some way or another. this one couple who had it at their apt happened to be a friend that i was supposed to be getting in touch with because of a mutual friend we had in amber black. that was just crazy. then one of the girls had only lived here a month and worked at Gensler which is where our good friend katie works. so they are supposed to become friends. then one of the girls was a pretty good friend of a collegelife guy we know. it is a small world up here. it is really fun though. we found it easily. it is in park slope which is near by us. i think i will go again. it was fun. oh and they like watching cowboys games. fun! over all i think that was a good experience.

"Stand Clear of Closing Doors Please"

subway appreciation lesson 1:
appreciation of the homeless on subway.
1)i recently read a book called The Glass Castle, which I would highly recommend. it is by Jeanette Walls. It is a true story/memoir of this womans life, and her parents end up homeless in NYC. in the book she says how the city makes it too easy to be homeless. that it isnt even hard to be homeless in nyc. that is because so many people are willing to help out in small ways. i have decided that there is no reason not to give to people. it may be easy to think of a million reasons of why you shouldn't give to a homeless person, but i have decided for me it is easier to just be giving. and its not like you have the opportunity to give to someone every day or every train you get on, so when the opportunity arises i have chosen to take it. so tonight i gave a man a granola bar i had been carrying around for a couple of days, and i usually dig around in my bag for change when the united homeless organization comes through the train. it may be small, but it brings perspective on what i have. so instead of closing my eyes, turning the other way, reading my Bible, I am going to pay attention to those people who are all two often overlooked in this world. there is a level of appreciation that must happen when paying a person some attention.

2) on another aspect of the homeless subway rider, there must be a level of appreciation for the homeless stank. thats right the stank. sometimes it is just straight up stanky. i caught a wiff of it tonight and haven't been able to kick it since. but instead of moving from that seat because of my discomfort, i asked the homeless person to please move to the next train. i asked nicely, oh wait that is not how the story goes. ya know we are all people and we all gotta get somewhere. so i sat there and thought of what i would tell yall about appreciating the homeless person stinch. so when it is you on the train just take it in, and breathe through your mouth, and be a little more thankful for your shower when you get home that night.

pictures of dc!

these are our pictures. the one of me solo is of this massive wall of colored pencil scribbles. it is an installation by this artist Sol LeWitt, and i had never seen any of his work before now. so i wanted a picture. and we got yelled at by the guard for an unforeseen reason.