Where the wind blows
Happy Columbus Day! Well, I am home right now, but I will be back in the good ole Windy City early tomorrow. Chicago is a great city, and I am enjoying it immensely. I went to the Celtic Festival a few weeks ago. And I have been to different museums, with plans to see many more.
Let's take a quiz. Please raise your hand if you know what syphillis is. Ok good. Raise your hand if you know if it is a bacteria or a virus. Good. Raise your hand if you think you can get STDs by touching people. Oh, wait, you can't. But guess who would have answered incorrectly all the above questions...My roommate. I don't understand how people miss some of these things. While I love Chicago and my apartment, my roommate is a little weird. But, you can't have everything.
Let's see. My team is pretty cool. We have had our ups and downs, but overall I think it will be ok. It's strange to see how different personality styles repeat themselves. For example, we have a Will type character, a Christine type, a Dana/Leon type. Fun times. I hope that it works out. We have been working on our room, making it look spiffy for the students. We had a filthy classroom. And when I say filthy, I mean filthy. We have some of our bulletin boards finished, with a few more to complete.
And I have just completed another interview with the whole ordination process. It is still going well.
posted by Christine @ 8:11 PM
8 Comments:
Is there a TJ type? Or do I remain unparalleled?!
I'm so glad somebody finally posted on the blog! I was about to declare it dead, read last rites, sprinkle ashes, etc. Although your entry might just be the last gasp before the shuddering end...unless we can convince other people to read and post. Come on, other people...why so quiet?
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. It has often been called “the great imitator” because so many of the signs and symptoms are indistinguishable from those of other diseases.
Syphilis is passed from person to person through direct contact with a syphilis sore. Sores occur mainly on the external genitals, vagina, anus, or in the rectum. Sores also can occur on the lips and in the mouth. Transmission of the organism occurs during vaginal, anal, or oral sex. Pregnant women with the disease can pass it to the babies they are carrying. Syphilis cannot be spread through contact with toilet seats, doorknobs, swimming pools, hot tubs, bathtubs, shared clothing, or eating utensils.
Syphilis CDC Fact Sheet. http://www.cdc.gov/std/Syphilis/STDFact-Syphilis.htm#WhatIs
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Perhaps, you can do me a favor. I have not been successfull in finding an email or a way to post on the other team blog you are a part of.
By the way I think it is more than cool that you don't wear sunglasses. I don't like dimming my eyesight either!
But I was trying to post to Christina. She had written something on guys not understnading girls and vice versa.
I would really appreciate it, if you would post this on there for me..
Well, guys tend to like sex alot. They like physical intimacy. But too much sex, for anyone, can become intoxicating.
Men, in general, are easily aroused and that's why I think it ought to be the women's responsibility to excercise restraint in the bedroom.
Too often, women try to capture a man's love with sex. He is not a fish and sex is a net with a hole in it.
Don't even bother.
Women tend to get emotionally involved wiht a man if they have sex with him often. They don't want to be just a "bed" mate.
Men actually tend to like girls who focus more on communication that having sex because it's the responsible thing to do and those who don't know ought to come to like it because the relationship becomes more reasonable and less of a passion.
I could write more. But I think I will stop here. If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask it of me.
First of all, Michael: what the crap? Why are you transcribing passages from your medical books into the blog? Or are you trying to tell us that you have syphilis?
Secondly,Jenifer Just: we should form a no-sun-glasses club because we are just that cool; you can't post on my other blog because comments are member-restricted; Nevertheless, I will pass on your fascinating analysis of sexual politics to Christina. She's my roommate.
Ummm, Jennifer? So, I don't know how you decided to try and reach me this way...or why, for that matter. But, I wanted to respond to your comment regarding my previous post. I actually think you may have misunderstood my post from the other blog. I do not think (or rather know) that sex has nothing to do with my post, and am not sure how you got that out of my post. I'm not even dating anyone and wasn't referring to anyone in particular. I was just sitting around musing about how quirky girls are when it comes to relationships, and the ordeals that we (girls) all make relationships into. All I was saying really is that everyone knows that girls are crazy (i.e., have weird expectations, read into things way too much, and want to be understood). Although we're crazy, I think it's ok, because guys know this and expect our craziness. They probably even laugh about it, and come to find it charming. (Let's hope at least.) However, there is no such global statement that can be said about guys (at least that I have found) that enables them to begin to be understood. I was not referring to sex at all. It sure would be easy to believe (and easy to control) that their obsession with sex explains them, but really think that there's more to it than that. Maybe I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt too much, but surely there's another explanation. Maybe it's been different in your experience. My friends have actually been able to address my questions, because they know me much better (obviously, since they don't have to reach me through blogs that I'm not even a member of). I don't have that much experience in the dating field, but have come to find that the guys I like aren't all about gettin' some. Maybe they really are, but just haven't brought that up to me. I tend to already be someone who is focused on the bigger picture instead of just sex, so your advice really doesn't rock my world. Obviously, my post was not meant to be read or analyzed by people who don't know this about me and may have a false impression of my relationships. I'm not sure why you decided to publish this on a blog that I'm not even a member of, thereby bringing this to the attention of even more people, but I think that my piddly, inane, musing quandries about guys can stick to being to subject of my funny quibbling with other friends. However, I guess, thanks for your opinion, and for the effort that you must have taken to get in touch with me. By the way, I'm not TJ's roommate anymore.
Umm, ok, I just re-read that, and it sounded kind of rude. Honestly, I didn't mean it to come out that way. I was just kind of weirded out. Anyways, I re-read your post too, Jennifer, and maybe you did answer my question. Maybe the theme that explains guys is their preoccupation with sex, and that's why (when there is none) they get all weird and unpredictable and sketchy. OK, point taken. Thanks. I'll let the female race know if I ever figure anything else out. Now, I promise you City Year folk that I won't bother ya'll's blog again. Carry on. Ciao.
what the.... who the.... why the.... what in tarnations is a-goin on here?
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