Go to church

It seems that the idea of what the church is has undergone an extremely damaging redefinition.  Instead of "the church" being an integral, inseperable part of every believer, it has become a location and/or an activity external to a believer.  This has made it easy for us to separate what we do on Sunday from what we do with the rest of our week.  The church as an internalized ideal is much more pervasive in one's life.

What I wonder now is how do we correlate the externalized church and the internalized church?

Oi!

Haven't updated in a month.  Oops.  I suppose I have good reason though.

The past month has been kind of crazy.  I knew I didn't want to be in my old apartment anymore, because it, well, sucked.  So, I spent pretty much most of last month researching new places to live, packing up/throwing away stuff in my old place, and doing everything else I usually do throughout the week.  A girl at work that's on my team said she lives at "Harbin Pointe" and that I should get a place there because she'll get a $400 discount.  So I checked it out, and signed a lease the same day.  Out of all the places I checked, it was the nicest, the roomiest, accepted my feline roommates, and most reasonably priced.

During the last week of August, I went into overdrive as far as packing and all that goes.  I took off work on Friday to ensure I'd have enough time to get boxes, get stuff packed, and all of that.  Saturday morning I got a truck and started packing stuff onto it.  The truck story is funny but I'll get to that later.  Ryan came and helped me out with the loading and unloading, so he got major points for that.

It took about a week or two but I got everything unpacked and put in its place.  I got a video of my new place here.  At the time of this video, it was still a little disorganized, but it looks better now.

As far as the truck story is concerned, I went to buy some boxes from Uhaul and to see if they had any 14' trailers available - I thought that would be plenty of room for me.  Turns out they didn't.  They said I could pay a deposit and put in a reservation for one, but that wouldn't guarantee me that I'd get a truck, so I decided to go elsewhere.  I called Budget and asked if they had a 14' trailer.  They said they only had 16' trailers that were close to that size, and that they didn't have any available, but they had a 24' trailer available they'd let me use for the price of a 16', so I went with it.  When I picked it up, it was this behemoth monstrosity of a machine.  I managed it ok but I was so nervous the entire time.  I don't know how people can drive big SUVs, trucks, etc.  I love the maneuverability of my Elantra.

That's about all I have right now.  I'll try to update more frequently.