Tuesday, August 30, 2005 | by nathan

O-Trip

On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays I work at the Admissions and Records Department at Oklahoma City Community College, AKA OKCCC, AKA Oh-Triple-C, AKA O-Trip. When I started it was enrollment time for fall, and we were swamped with new applications, requests for transcripts, and people needing new ID cards. It was miserable.

Now, classes have started and things have mellowed significantly. It’s $9.05 an hour, the position is temporary, and I get to sit here at the desk and write. Doesn’t entirely suck. And - cross your fingers here - it may help me afford the new computer I’ve been dying to get all summer, as mine lies near death, like some written-out soap opera character. Pray for this, folks; it would help a lot.

Mostly, pray for Summer, because she is still hurt. Auvrey and I are plotting a jaunt up to St. Louis for the end of next week, but I have yet to work out the work schedule stuff.

Also, pray that we get out of Iraq soon, and with a minimum of chaos and death. This will require a miracle, so you should probably stretch before praying, and drink lots of water.

In other news, I gave up my reluctance about the UCC and went to Mayflower for church on Sunday, and you know what? I LOVE it! I love the whole “God is Still Speaking” campaign, and Dr. Meyers, the pastor, rules, even if he doesn’t seem to have a bit of a yen for Bishop Spong, whom I like in theory somewhat but can’t stand in reality. Brian mentioned that he had almost joined Mayflower back in the spring but then hadn’t. I suggested that we join together, and that perhaps this was the reason for his reluctance.

One thing I loved when I was perusing Mayflower’s website today:

“It is our goal to reverse the present trend toward using the proceeds of church growth to construct larger and larger facilities, and to feed the budgets that are necessary to support them. Instead, we have self-consciously decided to direct more and more of our resources toward the least fortunate among us. Our ultimate goal is to spend at least 50% of our total operating budget for purely missions and charity.”

That’s awesome.

Anyhow. Our realtor, Monty, will be back this week from his vacation and hopefully will get to show us those houses. I’m looking forward to that. For now, though, I love the loft, I love Brian, and I rather love life at the moment. Mostly good, some problems.

Amen.