A good and right and joyful thing

Anybody who reads this blog knows I don't post much. (This is not mosesface-style self abasement. I feel no guilt about my lack of blogging. Any sensible person these days uses a feed reader like Google Reader or Bloglines so that they don't have to check the page every day to see if we have posted.) When the blog started, I had interesting hobbies and -- amazingly enough -- more of a social life (in Durham!) than I do now. I've always had an unofficial policy that I don't write about religion (theology) or politics. That wasn't a big deal until my life became mostly consumed with theology,* and my social life became almost negligible among the time I spend being a husband/dad, going to school, and working.

So, following Mosesface's (and godsfreedavid's) lead, here's a postcard of what's been keeping me from blogging lately:

(not pictured: beer)

In other words, everything that makes my life "interesting" and busy has also prevented me from writing about my busy and "interesting" life. BUT NO LONGER. Here are my updates:

- "You're So Vain" is no longer stuck in my head. Except that just now it is again.
- I got a great new job. It's at Fuller (like my old job), but it's better in that I make more money and do more work I really enjoy.
- Assuming that I can get into all the classes I need, I will still be graduating at the end of the Summer Quarter**.
- Various committments (including the new job), will prevent us from moving back to Austin until December or January.

And here's what I'm looking forward to lately:

- GRADUATING. I love school, but I'm ready to spend a lot less time doing homework, and a lot more time with the activities and people pictured above.
- Visiting Austin during SXSW! Our friends Bodies of Water may be playing there, and we're going regardless of whether they do or not.

AND FINALLY, here's where I resolve to post more. I've decided to loosen my self-imposed injunction against theological topics on the blog, and I'm going to start posting interesting*** tidbits I've learned in my classes recently. So, here's today's:

Many scholars believe that the description in Revelation 19:11 of the rider on the white horse is meant to evoke the image of the Parthian cavalry, who the Romans were unable to defeat in battle. Thus the interpretation that the Revelation is referring to the Church's "defeat" of Rome -- the armies of heaven (also on white horses; 19:14) being the church, and the beast's army being the Roman Empire.

*For instance -- the blog I most look forward to reading lately is this one.
**For the grammarians out there, I know that seasons are usually not capitalized, but Fuller does capitalize the names of our quarters, so cram it.
***Warning: may not be interesting.