end of semester, beginning of…

Lots of things coming to a good end lately:
The 2007 Frankford renovation.
The college semester (one more assignment and final).
Lots of good things beginning:
Wed night baseball

Shalom House Festival (May 13, 6:30pm at 2007 Frankford)
The Discerning Team has met twice about the next church plant.
Composting in the backyard, getting ready for our little garden (Japanese cukes, cilantro, [...]

Schoolly

When my teacher told me that Schoolly D was going to be coming into class, I thought it was pretty awesome and funny.  I had only heard of him because of PSK and by the word on the street that Ice T had stolen his whole deal.

Last Tuesday, Schoolly and some [...]

Writtenhouse

My Hip Hop & Black Culture class has been pretty great throughout the year, but the past week or so has been particularly cool.  Last week Chris Conway & Charlie K from the Germantown-based hip hop trio Writtenhouse were our guests.

Last tues, Chris gave the lecture about “finding the perfect” beat.  He taught on the [...]

I used to love H.E.R.

I’ve never been a huge fan of homework. But it’s not always doing math equations and reading 50pgs a day. For my Hip Hop and Black Culture class part of my assignment is to listen to this song, watch the video, and read the lyrics to prepare for a class discussion.

Video, lyrics, then a couple of reflections.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y12YgEIFcAY]

spring 09 semester underway

they call it the Spring semester, but going over to Temple didn’t feel like Spring today.  It’s nice to be back in school again.  I have some really great classes and love my profs.
I’m taking Intro to History of Africa with the same guy as last time (see earlier post).  5 books again, but this [...]

“finally”

Today I had my 2 finals, officially marking the end of the semester!  whew!  In some ways I now know why it took me so long to get back in college, in other ways I’m really siked to be taking classes.  It’s not always easy, but it’s really stimulating and deepening.  I definitely felt like [...]

sitting next to strangers

I love how funny people are.  Most Americans from the US have this thing about sitting next to strangers, especially when eating.  It’s not cool.  Sometimes I’ll go to a restaraunt in Center City with Martha and we’ll sit 6″ away from strangers, and it’s kind of weird for a minute.  You see what they [...]

Tinariwen Doc online

I think I’ve been talking about this group for a while, and prob even posted about it.  I ran across this documentary about them today when I needed to return to the desert after a weird moment on campus.
I was talking to my classmate who came to the PM last night because he read about [...]

just when I thought my life was rough…

My mind is not used to having exams.  Two in one day about tuckered me out, not to mention my right arm is about to fall off.  I feel tired, in a good way now that they are over.  I paid attention and participated in class, read the material, reviewed material, did at least okay [...]

college becomes less fun…

1.  when it’s exam time.
2.  when I have 2 exams in the same day, like tomorrow, for instance.
3.  when I don’t have as much time to study as I would like.
Last time around I did a lot of crammage.  That seemed like a good idea.  Nowadays I like to do all the reading when it’s [...]