Saturday, October 08, 2005
Set our bodies down like offerings
Alexandra and Lourenzo are back from their week of camping, which was apparently wonderful and educational and beautiful, and today was a full-12-hours-of-Lourenzo day. Actually, it wasn't all that bad, because he had a friend come over for the afternoon, and honestly, it's easier to babysit two 5-year-boys than just one. When there are two, they entertain themselves, and I just have to check every 10 minutes to make sure no one's hanging from the ceiling. Monday will be more of the same, since there's no school, and then we're back into the normal routine.It feels much later than it is, though. And, I'm still heading out tonight. Naomi, a girl from work, and I are going to go see In Her Shoes--a late showing, since we were both busy in the earlier evening. The plan is to see a 10:30 show, but 11:30 and 12:30 are always options, too, if things get hung up and we can't get there until later. My point, though, is that it feels like I should be leaving now for a 10:30 show, but I still have almost an hour and a half before I need to leave the house.
Good thing I found some chocolate covered espresso beans in the kitchen, right? Heh. Actually, I'm looking forward to it. Not only do I really want to see this movie (I've read the book, and thought it was really good), but it'll be nice to just do something social with someone else. Just to hang out. As much as I do love exploring New York on my own, there are certain non-exploratory and just-experiential things that are better with another person. A friend, maybe? At any rate, someone with common interests and friendly conversation.
And then tomorrow, I'm going back to Forefront. It's funny--of the three churches that I seriously considered, I got the least personal-Sunday-morning attention at Forefront. I wasn't invited out for lunch; I didn't really meet anyone specific; I wasn't introduced to "instant friends," like I was at New Life and First Alliance. I don't think that's why I decided to go there over the other two--there were many other factors at work, and a kind of complicated decision-making process--but it was still an interesting observation.
Having said that, I signed up for one of their small groups, which starts on Tuesday, and I'm actually really excited for that--more excited than I was about the prospect of going to either of the other two small groups; the ones where I would have actually known (sort of) someone going in. Strange? Yeah, but what else would you expect from me?
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