quick hits

wow, nothing in October yet. let's make some quick notes.

classes are going really well - i really really like them all and i'm soaking up a lot of stuff. the speech class has been especially helpful as it has started off as basically a writing class and for the last three weeks people have read their essays for the week aloud in class (from our desks, not like a 'speech'). in church planting, i've been getting a ton of ideas for both our current church and whatever happens in the future. for mentored ministry, i've been having lunch with my pastor once a week and that's a great time to discuss stuff that i don't get to talk about much :-) Also for the class, we've been hosting a small group at our house and it's been going delightfully well. We all make dinner together and then eat together and then spend 30-45 minutes in the next chapter of richard foster's celebration of discipline. a new couple that we've been praying for came this week and i think they'll coming from now on. yay!

my grandmother (mom's mom) fell and her hip replacement had to be redone. we went to see her in the rehab place one saturday recently (the day of the ut memphis game) and she's starting to do better i believe. they are working on a timeline for her release, but she'll need 24 hour care after that.

lindsay had her tonsils removed, was pretty out of it for a few days, but seems to be doing pretty good now (a little over two weeks later). she went to knoxville the past two weekends for special events. i went the first weekend, but i stayed home last weekend and had a splendid time catching up on my reading and watching movies. i went to see little miss sunshine (delightful!) and the departed (oscar-caliber all around, stunning) in the theater (and hung out in the nearby bookstore for a while friday night and xmen3 (fun!) and thank you for smoking (satirically funny) via netflix. i had planned on watching alien for the first time ever, but netflix took forever to get it to me.

work is going great! my first project just took about a week, but i was able to learn a lot about the systems, projects, and the way we do things around here. my second project was much bigger and right when i got to the end of it, they gave me my third project. this project is the first step in what i'll be working on for about two years. it's fun and i've made a lot of headway this week. i'll revisit the second project when i can, but i think i'm done with everything we've defined on that project. we were going to add some more stability later, but i'm really close.