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Chris —  November 16, 2012

  • I’m more or less recovered from the jet lag of two weeks in California. Just in time to get on a plane for New York.
  • Returning home has been strange.  Two weeks suddenly seems like a very long time to go home.
  • It was sad to say goodbye to the Fuller MAGL “Kairos” Cohort.  I am amazed by how our peculiar, mostly online, education focused relationship has grown to be so meaningful.
  • Most of my peers returned to ministry’s they have a passion for and family’s they missed.  I returned to my liminal life in Austin. This has been tough.
  • That being said, I am more passionate than ever about making the big decisions that need to be made.  Two resources that are helping me so far are Jon Acuff’s “Quitter” and Keith Ferrazzi’s “Never Eat Alone.”
  • It’s probably impossible for Daniel Craig to make a better Bond move than Casino Royale, but Skyfall is just about as close as you get.
  • This may be a trend “Hero” movies: where the hero is really just a tool for roping you into an ensemble drama.  Skyfall is about Britain’s growing obsolescence, and focuses on the performance of Judi Dench as “M” and Javiar Bardem’s as the villain.  It reminds me of how Dark Knight Rises isn’t so much a story about Batman as it is a story about Gotham and the false promises revolutions. Christian Bale is great, but it also depends on depends on the performances of Michael Kaine, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
  • I couldn’t be more pumped than to get on a plane for NYC on Wednesday.  I’ll be seeing my lovely sister and her husband, who I have seen since their wedding, the inimitable James Holston and his lovely sister Marianne.
  • What do you do when you’re burned out on all the tourist-y stuff in New York?
  • It’s not a trip to NYC without at least one Broadway show.  Any suggestions?
  • I’ll be working remotely on for two days, and will need some top of the line coffee and wi-fi. Where would you go?

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