Abraham
My father has seen Abraham today. Ask a Dutch person, they’ll tell you what that means.
Ok, ok, I’ll give you a hint:
John 8:57 “You are not yet fifty years old,” the Jews said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!”
Research
It seems to me that everything is more exciting in the movies. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of research / academics. Dramas such as Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, and the like show us the world of geniuses that make academics look like alot of fun. However, there’s a lot more work involved than there appears initially.
See, if you work in construction, you can see the house being built, you’ve got the plan, the roadmap to where you need to be, a timetable to ensure you are on schedule, and established industry practices / codes to ensure quality. In research you can spend a year just to discover that your fabulous idea doesn’t mean anything, doesn’t work.
In addition, there may be a great deal of grunt work involved. I can only sympathize with those poor grad students who are working in the field, carefully measuring the same thing every day in order to get enough data to be able to say something. Or in my case, taking pictures. You’ve never really known a hallway untill you’ve crawled along it 6 times, in one foot increments, to get a buch of ones and zeros that look like this :
I think I’ve gotten to understand the hallway’s frustrations a little better… all those students walking on it, leaving dirty scuff marks all over. If it wasn’t for its weekly cleaning, the hallway would have gone postal by now.
The Pineries
So this past weekend I reached another milestone in our current solar-based year system. In addition to this event, it was also the youth group camping weekend for my church, which was held once again at Pinery Provincial Park. On Saturday various people came up to celebrate with me, and we ensured that Redeemer was not under-represented at the beach :
This worked out well, since while sitting at tables by the park store we were approached by a couple with a few young children and asked if we went to Redeemer. Upon hearing the affirmative, it was revealed that alumni of ‘94 do occasionally frequent the Pineries. Good times.
