Anyone want to come clean my apartment?

I haven’t finished my application to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School yet. Why haven’t I finished the darn thing? The University of Utah won’t release my transcript because I have overdue library books. Three years overdue, which means I owe a metric crap-ton in late fees. Oops.

I thought that the application deadline was April 15, so I just spent the day pulling out and tearing through storage boxes in search of the missing library books, and now it looks like a Tasmanian devil made a couple of rounds through my apartment, but find them I did, all eight of them. I also found a stockpile of towels, several flavors of lip gloss which I’m pretty sure are no longer in existence, and my old collection of Five Iron Frenzy CDs. Ah, now I feel like a teenager in a Christian mosh pit again. That’s right, CHRISTIAN MOSH PIT.

As I began boxing up the books and composing a desperate transcript request to the University of Utah, I logged onto the Trinity web site to check the fax number only to learn that the deadline for my application is July 15, so there was never any need to rush. Now I feel stupid and I have to clean my apartment.

In other news, I received a message today from Zach, the admissions counselor from Multnomah, saying that he read my recap of my visit to Trinity. Zach says that while Multnomah would still love to have me, he honestly feels like Trinity would be a better program for me. At Multnomah I would be taking classes using The American Evangelical Story by Douglas Sweeney as a textbook; at Trinity I would get to work with Sweeney himself. So, it’s sounding like Trinity is the more likely option for me. I’m still going to finish my application to Multnomah, but I hope that goes to show how much class Multnomah has.

I’ve decided not to attend the NewFrontiers Women’s Conference in Silverton this weekend. It actually has nothing to do with my newfound discovery of the denomination’s abject complementarianism; I’m genuinely curious to hear what a hard complementarian denomination teaches at a women’s conference. However, they don’t have childcare there, and I could not get anyone to watch Harley on Friday while Paul’s at work. I’m not horribly keen on listening to speakers with a bored two-year-old in tow, so that’s that. Maybe I’ll listen in and make fun of LDS General Conference and do something horribly boring, like live-blog it.

Anyways, I promise I’ll get back to our discussion on God & humanity this weekend. I have to go clean my apartment now.

Comments

Anyone want to come clean my apartment? — 8 Comments

Rob Perkins on April 3, 2009 at 8:39 AM said:

Bwahhahahaha. Overdue library books. How high are the fees?

You know, as a Zoobie, you’re not supposed to *need* the U. You know that, right?
Bridget Jack Meyers on April 3, 2009 at 10:47 AM said:

Well, let me put it this way, Rob: they said they would take $300 off my fees if I returned the books.
Rob Perkins on April 3, 2009 at 11:00 AM said:

Ouchie! That’ll learn ya to go to the U.
BrianJ on April 4, 2009 at 8:11 AM said:

The moral is: never read.
Katie Langston on April 4, 2009 at 9:00 AM said:

Funny, the moral I take out of this is never clean, because everything just gets messed up anyway.

I still don’t have my diploma from Utah State because of lost library books. I’m not gonna pay $350 for a piece of paper.
Genevieve on April 4, 2009 at 11:22 PM said:

JACK EDIT: Link to original text

JACK EDIT 2: Link removed altogether, see my comment below

[I found the above on the "Powered by Christ Ministries" site. What a discovery of evangelical dirty linen! BTW, you have little to worry about since you are obviously a born - and fascinating - writer! Genevieve]
Bridget Jack Meyers on April 4, 2009 at 11:32 PM said:

Genevieve, I edited your comment to remove the wall o’ copy-and-paste text and linked to it at the original site instead.

I’m tempted to just delete your comment altogether since this post—nay, this site—has nothing to do with evangelical rapture beliefs and has never even mentioned them, but I’m not a big fan of censorship. I’m also not a big fan of copy-and-pasting entire articles though; if you have an argument to make about something, make it yourself.

It’s pop-culture evangelicalism that teaches a pre-trib rapture. Many, many evangelicals believe otherwise. I myself am undecided on the subject.

For future reference, stick to the subject of a post or don’t bother commenting.

EDIT: The article posted by “Genevieve” is apparently being idiotically copied-and-pasted and spammed into the comments on any site having to do with evangelical Christianity, so I removed the link altogether.
Rob Perkins on April 5, 2009 at 12:04 AM said:

Ooo, we could discuss the rapture sometime. I’ve have to go study a bit tho; I haven’t studied the Rapture in years, and I’ve stayed the hell (ahem) away from Tim LaHaye’s books.

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