Monday, February 13, 2006 | by nathan

12:51 AM

So it’s almost 1 AM and I am still sitting up. I just finished doing the one thirty lab’s production schedule, which is a task of such enormous detail and difficulty that I am not certain my sanity will hold up under doing one more right now. Suffice it to say, as much as I like my job lately - teaching assistant at video productions with all the fresh-faced students who are scared of the switcher - I am not remotely well enough to do the one for the morning class right now.

I am feeling better, but that tends to come and go. I am still stuffy and unable to breathe well. It absolutely sucks.

Mom, John, and Crystal came over last night for our first “Family Dinner,” which is a new thing we decided to start once every two weeks. Brian and I made healthy pizzas and we all watched Hitchhiker’s Guide. Good fun. I like my family a whole lot.

Today was fabulous. Got up and wasn’t feeling well, but I dragged myself out of bed to make it to church, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite places in the entire world. The sermon was about Original Sin - not entirely stuff I agreed with, but interesting food for thought and reflection. Dr. Meyers is uncomfortable with the old Catholic idea of original sin, but the sermon almost sounded as if he wanted to throw that baby out with the bathwater. He said we should think of ourselves as being in recovery, but if there is no O.S., then it begs the question - recovery from what? I got the sense that the sermon wasn’t actually about discaring original sin, but rather as couching it in different terms than the Catholic idea would suggest.

Honestly, right now I am too sleepy to think about it.

I am going to go upstairs, take out my contacts, and fall asleep next to the man I love.