Where is all the Matrix jibberjabber? People were all excited about the last one and had comments galore about it after they saw it. Now no one seems to care about it. Was Reloaded that much of a disappointment to everyone?

I’m thinking I might see Revolutions tonight.

Some of you may recall my blogging about listening to a tape series by Jeff Niell, pastor of Emmanuel Covenant Church. He talked about Jeremiah 31 and Hebrews 8 in the series, expounding on them and explaining what is really being said. It is a great set.

I just finished his chapter in The Case for Covenantal Infant Baptism (edited by Gregg Strawbridge), on the same topic, and it is just as amazing. Great, great stuff.

ahem.

my comments really do work.

If I’m ever in Moscow, ID, I need to make sure it’s on a Thursday, so I can crash the Canon Press Thursday Feast. It always sounds so tasty.

Speaking of Canon Press, I’m looking forward to Peter Leithart’s book on Jane Austen’s novels. I’ve only read two of them (Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice), but I’m still interested to see what he has to say about them. And I’m sure Megan will love it as well.

Oh yeah… work.

I’m beginning to feel a bit like Mike (or at least how I imagine he’s feeling). Only, different. Because I’m not a senior. I think I have endofsemesteritis. And I’m not even a student.

There’s just something about the three days off I get for Thanksgiving, and then working three weeks, and then not having to come back here for 18 days, straight. Having that much vacation so close is just ruining my desire to work. I’m waiting for it. Come to me vacation, come to me. No. That’s not it. I’m not calling to the vacation, the vacation is calling to me. See how that works? It’s calling to me, distracting me. Like my mother, when we lived in Hawaii. We’d be driving down the road at night, and the ocean would just call to her. So we’d stop and all go jump in for a little while. Man, that was fun.

But I can’t jump into my vacation. I guess Thanksgiving break is sort of like jumping into the vacation.

So… I guess I need to get back to work.

I read Holes yesterday. A fun story, and easy to read since it’s for kids. The movie followed it pretty closely. There were only a few things that I noticed the film lacked, and only one that really added something to the story.

I have no idea what the ‘spiritual status’ of Louis Sachar (the author) is. He talks about God in the story, though. In it we hear the tale of a beautiful young woman living 110 years ago in a beautiful, lakeside Texas town. She falls in love with a young black man, and their love is found out as they kiss one evening. The town erupts into madness and goes out to lynch this young man, since it was illegal for a black man to kiss a white woman. They eventually shoot him in his boat as he was rowing away from the town. This is all included in the movie. Also included in the movie is the fact that after this murder, not a drop of rain had fallen.

What isn’t included in the movie, though, is the shouts of the town people to the woman, ” The law will punish Sam. And God will punish you!”, and this little bit of narration after revealing the fact about the lack of rain: “You make the decision: Whom did God punish?”

Is there a way to access the archives of christianculture.com? I know they’re there, because I can still get to articles that are linked from other places, but I don’t see any way to access them from the site itself.