Now Go the F**k to Sleep

If you've ever tried to get a kid - or yourself - to go to sleep you know you've thought that at least once. Now there's a book with lots of fun rhymes that end, "now go the f**k to sleep." Haha.

In other news, this has been the fastest summer ever! I logically know that time is time, but it does seem to speed up as I get older. I remember summer breaks going on forrreeevverrrrr. And now, suddenly, I'm moving out of my apartment in a week. The apartment I've lived in and loved, my home, for three years. It's definitely not the classiest joint, but... It's been my haven from the storm. Good times, bad times, blah blah blah dirty tramp times. It's the home I made and the things that are mine. There are a lot of people moving, people I like and love and who I want to stay. A lot of people going new places and starting new things. I knew this day would come, but I'm really not ready for it. Life will be different, and right now that makes me sad.

I also got a job(ish) and I might actually like it. It sounds good on paper, and it sounds like something I would like to be good at, which I hope is a good start to actually being good at it.

My Lila Bean is 4 months old now, and she's the most intelligent, clever, fantastic girl ever.

Basically, she can roll over and over and over. And she makes the coolest sounds - they're like a cross between a velociraptor and a whale. But I'm pretty sure she is a genius.

Reverently Agnostic

I'm reading this book, The Year of Living Biblically, by A.J. Jacobs:

It looks like some Bruce Almighty kind of thing, but it is surprisingly reverential. And hysterical. And convicting. And insightful. And educated and educational. And hysterical. Among other things, Jacobs stones a self-confessed adulterer (with pebbles), wears tassels on his clothes, and participates in a chicken slaughter as part of a Hasadim atonement sacrifice.

He picks a few of the seemingly absurd commandments (building a hut, eating a locust, the tassels thing) to follow, but he always tries to follow the 10 commandments:

He says he's a secular agnostic, but I really identify with where he's at. I'm not agnostic (though Deism is appealing when I'm super pissed at God about something), but I am re-incorporating and re-learning how to relate to God. In some ways, it's like starting all over again. This book has actually made me want to read my Bible - more than any Sunday School teacher ever has. I'm also more convicted about my actions (what I say and think) and how much I pray than I have been by any youth camp (which, if you ever went to an evangelical youth camp, you know emotive responses are the goal!).