Back to School Brain Dump

• Over break, we went to see the new Narnia movie. It was a little underdeveloped, but I’ve always been a sucker for movies that leave me wantting to sword fight evil-doers in the name of good. Those evil doers are just lucky they weren’t in the movie theater parking lot when I got out.
• Trust me. It’s better than all the rapping my friend Jennie and I did in on the way home from Eight Mile. (Sorry. Ugly personal flashback.)
• Back to Narnia. Fair warning: I’m not sure it did my girl, Lucy, justice.
• Please tell the English teacher in me you identify with a character from a good piece of literature? Lucy is just the beginning of a long line for me. Take Clarisse, for example. She’s straight up my homie too.
• In other news (it’s Bad Transition Day), I became an iPhone owner. It’s true. I have all of three apps. (Facebook, Twitter and Words with Friends)
• I set up all my email accounts to arrive via the phone too.
• Now whenever I sit down to my computer, I wonder what I need it for.
• Maybe it will come in handy for my writing?
• Don’t you worry, little Mac book. With iPhone’s possessed auto-complete function, which conspires to turn all my texts into drivel, I will always need a laptop to produce books. At least legible books.
• Speaking of writing (Bad Transition #2), my friend Jimmy Spencer started giving away his book Love Without Agenda. You can download it here.
• Also my friend Leeana Tankersley wrote a piece on hating the war, but loving her hubby (a navy seal) for CNN’s religion blog. So proud of her.
• And my friend, Rachel, posted this piece on New Year’s Resolutions over at Relevant.
• I don’t get too into New Year’s Resolutions myself (Bad Transition #3), but I AM resolved to keep pursuing my dreams, big and small, no matter what time of year it is.
• FYI (Bad Transition #4), a lot of my dreams are qualitative–quality of life, quality of friendships, quality of time. Not quantitative–books, projects, empires. (Though I have some of those kind of dreams too.)
• Part of my professional aims, for example, include a new website design I’ll be rolling out soon. It’s streamlined and swanky, people.
• My hope for 2011 (Bad Transition #5) is that my website and life will manage themselves better now that I uploaded my schedule onto Google Calendar.
• Maybe that statement would be more true if I had uploaded it with some organizational intention, rather than doing it purely to share my life with a friend.
• I can’t help it. I love sharing life. :)
• (Complete lack of transition.) I’m okay with a dream that consists, mostly, of loving people well. And I find that when that’s my dream, all the goals and calendar entries become less about tasks and more like adventures in knowing and loving people.