All sorts of news. No sexless nickname is needed for the baby now - she's Anna Leigh Mogle. I'll admit I was kind of pulling for a boy, but I've totally changed my mind now. A girl will be so much fun! I'll get to show her love, treat her like a woman, threaten her potential boyfriends straight, etc. It'll be exciting!
Also on the news front...it looks like we'll be moving to Kalamazoo. I need to get my teaching certificate, and I want to get it as quickly as possible through a curriculum that I can actually stomach. That rules out MSU with their year-long student teaching and the seriously awful curriculum. So Western it is. If there's any good news in this, it's that we do know a few people in Kalamazoo, some friends from high school. We actually don't see them as often as we ought, so it will be nice living near them for a change.
Anyways, this isn't my spot for personal news alone, so here's something I've been chewing on lately. I wonder why it is that in the Emergent conversation people tend to use first names? It sounds so strange to me, coming from Academia. Brian McLaren is 'Brian'. Doug Pagitt is 'Doug'. When people talk like this, I start to think they're talking about someone they know. And they don't know these people, not really anyways (at least, I don't see how so many people could truly be on a first name basis with Brian McLaren and Doug Pagitt). Anyways, I wonder if it's #1 - an anti-academia type of thing. #2 - a 'personal' type of thing. #3 - a communal type of thing. Personal and communal? Sort of weird, but it works. Referencing someone by their first name is obviously more personal than using their last and, at the same time, less so; it both fills them with personality, but throws them in with all the other 'Brian's and 'Doug's that are out there.
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That's what's so nice about going by Gulopine all the time. It's personal while still singling me out as the only one on the planet. Although Gul means "yellow" in Swedish (or Finnish, I can't remember now), so there might be somebody out there with that as a name.
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