"Do these pants make me look fat?"

So tonight in CRE, one of the things we talked about was the Story of the Rich Young Man. The theme for the day was "Morality is not easy" and i felt the story was a good fit. We got to talking about the Ten Commandments and more specifically, "Thou shalt not bear false witness". I said that this pertains to even the littlest and seemingly smallest questions. I asked if anyone has asked them, "Do these pants make me look fat?"

I gave them two possible responses to this tough dilemma

1." You're beautiful no matter what"
2. "I am not an expert in the question you are asking."

Before you pick up your pitchforks to hunt me down, know that we talked about a lot of other things: being a Catholic is a challenge in today's society, "it is our choices that show who we truly are far more than our abilities", St. Peter being crucified upside down, my college application story, LOST, we acted out the Prisoner's Dilemma from The Dark Knight (unfortunately the citizens decided to blow up the criminals this time-but there was a twist: the bomb was on their boat), and "come to me who are weary and burdened...". so i wasn't corrupting too many of the guys' minds. yet.

Score and Name

Tae and I just finished playing touch football with two 7th graders from a local Catholic grade school.

1. What do you think the score was?
2. What would our team name be?

T-ball

I played tennis this morning with an 83 year-old parishioner who used to play at Villanova in his prime. He was giving me tips the whole time, though he didn't move more than 2 feet in the hour we played. Later as we were playing another older man named Archie joined us. The kindly old Chinese man told me after playing: 'you have good fastball'. I'm assuming he was talking about my forehand.

Laskey and Isaac, consider this fair warning that my game will be radically improved after playing with the elderly. Beware.

The Wedding Coordinator

I would just like to congratulate Meli Barber for being fantastic at her job. My high school friend's wedding yesterday went very smoothly mostly because of her. Isaac, you'd better hope she's available for your big day.

Indianapolis was lovely. Echo house Indy is huge and confusing. I got lost inside.

Echo SPFL is famous.

Here it is... the article that was on the COVER of the St. Petersburg edition of the Florida Catholic newspaper. (How embarrassing...) Enjoy! :)

'Echo' is real-life class for theology grad students

Solution to bug problems

Fort Worth House, I have a solution to your bug problems...

Get Tae for a housemate, or possibly another guy might work.

Here's how it works:

Sarah sees a HUGE bug; she screams. Gen comes running, looks at it, and screams. Tae comes to the rescue, squishes the bug, and even throws it away in his trash can.

Problems solved. It's that easy.

Some Quotes that Brighten My Life

"Once you go Asian, you don't go Caucasian"-Mike Rose our neighbor at Oktoberfest

Ginny the Volunteer Secretary: Tae, do you play any sports?
Me: Well, I like to play football and basketball. Oh and beach volleyball in the summer.
Ginny: Oh, with the girls in their bikinis?
Me: Um no. they're wearing regular clothes.
Ginny: The girls in the Olympics wear bikinis.
Me: yeah, they wear them to move faster. the clothes slow them down.
ginny: i think that's my problem in life. im wearing too many clothes that slow me down.

No one in our parish knows Ginny's age-she's covered her tracks real well and hunted down all the records and deleted them all. Our assoc pastor wants to find out her age and thus taunts her with comments like

"ginny's been around since christopher columbus did his first communion"

i got on the bandwagon with comments like

"hey ginny, did you ever go on a date with this guy?"-while pointing to a picture of Thomas Edison

she only says to fr. bob-"he's been hanging around you too much". gotta love parish life.