I had something worthwhile to say, I thought.

I made it home from the IAC trip. Good stuff, I learned a lot, in addition to racking up 14 hours of overtime.

For the last hour+ of our trip, we talked philosophy and Christianity and Marcus Borg.

Christianity is so different from the perspective of academic intellect. For someone not exposed to it (that phrase itself is troubling to me), it would seem like an unattractive jumble of sects each with their own little ways of doing things. And that's if you get past the great liberal/conservative divide that exists.

Live out loud. Live the life. Shine. Do all that.

Love 'em. By that, everyone will know that we are Jesus' disciples.

Yea for lazy Saturdays.
Yea for golf.
Yea for cool research projects.
Yea for family reunions.
Yea for passion.
Nay for not being sure what career I'd be passionate about.

For some reason I sort of hate to steer away from Engineering. It's, like, been a part of my identity for so long I'm having a hard time leaving it behind. And I can't rid myself of the nagging wish that I was a mechanical engineering student modeling fluid dynamics and thermal systems, solving differential equations...becoming a real engineer.