We're here. We pushed through and did it all in one shot. Thirteen hours. Would've been 12 but at 1 A.M., after 12 hours of driving, Laurel wanted to take a tour of her college campus. I was a tough sell but it was a nice time. I had been there once before, long before we met, to talk about Iraq. Laurel was invited to the talk by the organizer but she thought Voices in the Wilderness was a stupid name and all the Iraq activists she knew were a tiny bit loopy. So she didn't go. Funny.
Yesterday we did a little bit of shopping and waited for the snow storm that never came...until night. This morning there is something like 4 inches out there. It's beautiful.
Had a good dinner with Tony and Ruth. Laurel and I picked them up and drove them home. Tony can't drive yet. Too soon after his surgery. Missed them these past three months or so.
I've got to get out and do some shopping.
Dad & Diane are in the early leg of a drive to San Antonio, keep them in your thoughts!
Love,
Jeff (Laurel is downstairs chatting with her Ma)
Thursday, December 23, 2004
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Blog post from the road!
We are in hour 6 of our drive from NYC to Indianapolis. Jeff has had the wheel the whole time. He likes it. I wrote a letter to President Bush on my laptop. I heard a news report about the 20 people (troops and contractors) killed in an explosion in Mosul. His words of comfort were that he was going to pray for them. Now, I think prayer is important, but of all people in the world who have the power to do something other than pray in this situation. You work on stopping the war, Mr. Prez.
Anyway. We got out of the city at about 1 p.m., after stopping at our favorite deli in the neighborhood for turkey and brie sandwiches. We also got a $45 parking ticket when we were loading up the car. It was a street cleaning day, and I had seen the street sweeper pass so I thought it was safe. Not so.
Now we are 52 miles away from conquering Pennsylvania, the great Black Hole State. We are making good time, still hoping to get to Indianapolis tonight. A snowstorm is supposed to start at about 4 a.m. The iPod's random setting has just put on a beautiful Byrds song.
By the time we post this and you are reading it, we will be at my parents' house in Indianapolis, much relieved.
Love to all,
Laurel
Anyway. We got out of the city at about 1 p.m., after stopping at our favorite deli in the neighborhood for turkey and brie sandwiches. We also got a $45 parking ticket when we were loading up the car. It was a street cleaning day, and I had seen the street sweeper pass so I thought it was safe. Not so.
Now we are 52 miles away from conquering Pennsylvania, the great Black Hole State. We are making good time, still hoping to get to Indianapolis tonight. A snowstorm is supposed to start at about 4 a.m. The iPod's random setting has just put on a beautiful Byrds song.
By the time we post this and you are reading it, we will be at my parents' house in Indianapolis, much relieved.
Love to all,
Laurel
Monday, December 20, 2004
It snowed! Pros and Cons...
Hey,
So it snowed last night. It was raining while I finished up my Christmas shopping in SoHo. I got on the train for the 30 minute or so ride back to our neighborhood and when I emerged from the 116th street station it was snowing ever so lightly. It was beautiful. A big smile. Leo Kottke was playing on my iPod and it was a perfect soundtrack. This was our first snow but...oddly...the second time I've seen snow in NYC this year. The first was several weeks ago when we were walking Ali with my mom. We passed a car parked in front of Riverside Church with about two inches of snow on it. The car behind it and in front of it: totally dry. Strange. Must've come from the North.
So the pros to the first snow in NYC are obvious. Cons: just one so far...we're driving tomorrow.
We are planning to make the 14 hour drive in a single shot. But if the roads or weather are goofy or if we are tired or if we get a late start, we will break the drive into two days, we promise.
The plan right now is to leave around six in the morning ("0 dark-hundred hours" as my brother-in-law Kevin says).
Trish: don't forget that bubble. We want a white one to confuse the snow.
Love you all!
Jeff (Laurel is studying furiously for her 10 o'clock final exam. She was up until 1:30 A.M. with a study group. Just a test and a paper and it's all over until February!)
So it snowed last night. It was raining while I finished up my Christmas shopping in SoHo. I got on the train for the 30 minute or so ride back to our neighborhood and when I emerged from the 116th street station it was snowing ever so lightly. It was beautiful. A big smile. Leo Kottke was playing on my iPod and it was a perfect soundtrack. This was our first snow but...oddly...the second time I've seen snow in NYC this year. The first was several weeks ago when we were walking Ali with my mom. We passed a car parked in front of Riverside Church with about two inches of snow on it. The car behind it and in front of it: totally dry. Strange. Must've come from the North.
So the pros to the first snow in NYC are obvious. Cons: just one so far...we're driving tomorrow.
We are planning to make the 14 hour drive in a single shot. But if the roads or weather are goofy or if we are tired or if we get a late start, we will break the drive into two days, we promise.
The plan right now is to leave around six in the morning ("0 dark-hundred hours" as my brother-in-law Kevin says).
Trish: don't forget that bubble. We want a white one to confuse the snow.
Love you all!
Jeff (Laurel is studying furiously for her 10 o'clock final exam. She was up until 1:30 A.M. with a study group. Just a test and a paper and it's all over until February!)
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Laurel steps into the blogosphere...
Hi Family! It's Laurel this time. I would love to write a long, long post but I am getting ready for an Old Testament study session with some friends. I have been planted at the kitchen table all day for several days with piles of books. I finally finished a 12-page paper (that took me FOREVER) for my early church history class about 4th century women who escaped their normal roles as passive daughters and wives by becoming ascetics and starting monastic orders. Now I'm working on another 12-page paper on applications of Jung's theory of "transcendent function," which is when you put your unconscious mind in conversation with your conscious mind in order to work out bugs in your psyche (like if you keep saying "boobs" instead of "boots" or something).
Let me shout it from the mountaintops that JEFF IS AMAZING!!! He is so patient with me and my stressed freakouts and he cooks me meals too. I will be forever indebted to him for supporting me through however many years of schooling are to come!
We are soooo excited to come home and see you all. I hope you're having fun holiday parties and listening to lots of Christmas carols.
love,
Laurel
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From Jeff:
Early church history about 4th century women and applications of Jung's theory of "transcendent function"... just wanted to let everybody know I am nose deep into a 264-page anthology of comic strips. Shout THAT from the mountain tops.
Let me shout it from the mountaintops that JEFF IS AMAZING!!! He is so patient with me and my stressed freakouts and he cooks me meals too. I will be forever indebted to him for supporting me through however many years of schooling are to come!
We are soooo excited to come home and see you all. I hope you're having fun holiday parties and listening to lots of Christmas carols.
love,
Laurel
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From Jeff:
Early church history about 4th century women and applications of Jung's theory of "transcendent function"... just wanted to let everybody know I am nose deep into a 264-page anthology of comic strips. Shout THAT from the mountain tops.
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