My 50 Things

I saw this on Dianna's blog and really liked it, so I'm going to do my own. If any of these surprised you, I would encourage you to comment. Actually, I'd encourage you to comment regardless.

1. I'm a Theology & Philosophy major with music minor at USF.

2. I have no idea why I'm getting a music minor. Seriously no clue.

3. I often make inflammatory comments regarding my talent as a musician, physical appearance, and intelligence to test what people really think about me.

4. I want to stop, but it has kind of become a reflex.

5. I really enjoy a glass of wine and a cigar from time to time.

6. I know in my heart that I've been called to the ministry, but I doubt my call and the notion that God has a purpose for me about 25% of the time.

7. He always provides me with reasons I'm wrong. (Watch out for a blog about these two notions)

8. I took a course in Philosophy last semester and the world really makes a lot more sense.

9. I don't think I can lie about my job when someone asks me on a plane, but worry about getting to know the "real" someone because people have a tendency to play the role of piety around clergy.

10. I want to do, and probably will this summer, exegesis on 1 Corinthians 7:8, although my pastor/mentor told me not to make relationship decisions based on this verse.

11. I sometimes worry if I'll ever find/keep a girlfriend/wife.

12. I probably worry about it because I'm at USF where the terms "Mrs. Degree" and "Ring by spring" are used all the time; Also because I'm consistently around people in serious relationships and engaged couples.

13. Although it is late October, I'm listening to Josh Groban's Noël album.

14. When I study the Bible, I really enjoy manuscripting and have acquired a Bible from my church for this reason.

15. I started manuscripting a different Bible, but I messed up a few chapters of Job and my
Type-A personality and mild OCD forced me to start over. (That wasn't the only reason, though. I was using the TNIV translation and missed NRSV.)

16. I've recently learned that it's okay to be an introvert.
17. Although I know I'm an introvert and it's okay, I often struggle with feeling guilty about taking the alone time that I so desperately need for my own sanity.

18. I have no clue how to say "no." I can say that I'm not going to do something one day, and turn in my application to do it the next. Disgusting.

19. I actually said "no" to someone the other day. It was a proud moment for me. Not a proud enough moment to change the opening of #18.

20. I work with an after-school program. I love my job. I got paid to play football the other day. How could my job rock even more?

21. My boss likes to make silly rhymes using my name and something that she needs to tell me. I try to do it back to her, but her name doesn't rhyme with anything.

22. I'm a volunteer youth group leader at Southern Hills United Methodist Church.

23. I'm currently working with a girl named Jill; we co-lead a high school youth group that makes me smile every day.

24. Of my 680 Facebook friends, I communicate with about 45 on a regular basis.

25. I'm currently Facebook engaged to a girl to pull a prank on her aunt.

26. Watching people react to the engagement was really funny.

26. I seriously contemplate getting rid of Facebook.

27. I've been single since February of this year. Sometimes I get lonely, but other times I'm perfectly content.

28. Three of my ex-girlfriends are married; one is in a very serious relationship. One of them has a kid and supposedly another on the way. This makes me feel really old.

29. When someone says, "You're as old as you feel," often my response is "I'm 90."

30. My self-esteem is very flaky. Some days it's there, other days it's gone.

31. I have no clue where my self-esteem has gone. It used to be there.

32. I have two aunts that teach English—one at a high school level, the other used to teach at a college in Kentucky. As a result, I am mindful of my grammar and correct errors while speaking.

33. I really enjoy when people get on their high horse about their grammar and then make mistakes without correcting them.

34. I’m adopted.

35. I was born in Sioux Falls to a young lady and her boyfriend, who was not my father.

36. I now work of Lutheran Social Services, the agency that I was adopted through.

37. If I ever get married, I plan on adopting.

38. I would someday like to meet my birth mother to thank her for making tough decisions so that I might live.

39. I feel like a boring person because finding 50 things about myself is quite daunting.

40. I'm currently living in a dorm but am seeking off-campus options.

41. Because I'm at the church I serve at six out of seven days per week, I'm looking at something equidistant from USF to the church.

42. Silence makes me feel really uncomfortable; thus, I often say that I "don't believe in silence."

43. Halloween is this week. I have absolutely no plans to celebrate this mother of all non-holidays.

44. I was thinking about borrowing one of my pastor's robes (because it makes him look like Friar Tuck) but I can't decide if that would be considered sacrilegious...

45. One word that I consistently misspell: defininately (which should be spelled "definitely")

46. I'm a bit of a txt-aholic.

47. As a result, I have unlimited txt across all networks.

48. I write my blog posts in Microsoft Word and paste them over so I can check spelling and grammar.

49. I often go to bed mad at myself because the day was not productive enough.

50. This was a really hard exericse but a pretty neat thing.