My name is Jacqueline - I'm a socially moderate, religiously conservative, and politically liberal girl just loving life right now! I'm a 24 year old Master's of Media Studies student at the University of Texas, but an Oklahoma alumni and die-hard Sooner fan! I'm currently writing my thesis - in a nutshell my research is about girls' online lives, particularly informal learning environments. I'm also an English & Language Arts teacher for a local Home School Co-op. When I'm not researching for my thesis or writing lesson plans - I'm usually watching college football! Oh yea, and I'm training to run a half marathon with Teams in Training this winter, I'm pumped!
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Sunday, April 24, 2005
There's beauty in the breakdown
I've been listening to Frou Frou a lot lately, hence the title of the entry. It's a great CD, yup.
Let's see, I don't have a lot to say at the moment but I felt like updating. Here's a picture of my "new" haircut. It's actually been bout 2 weeks, but I haven't gotten around to uploading the pic.
It's not a very clear picture, sorry.
Anyway, I had a good weekend. I worked Friday night but after work I had a party at my place for Hilary's birthday, yay! It was a lot of fun and we had a great turnout. And we drank a lot of good liquor and jello shots.
Saturday Brandon and I ran errands together, had lunch with his dad, and watched Y Tu Mama Tambien (sans the father figure). That night we went out with a few different groups but it was a rather mellow night. I was tired. Stupid allergies have kept me from sleeping well the past few nights and it's catching up with me.
Posted at 4:37 pm by Jac
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
What could be so wonderful?
The half light wakes you up the morning after
Fall down with me
And roll around.
-Howie Day
Went out last night and had too much fun when I have so much school work I should've been doing, dang it! I called Brandon to come pick Hilary and me up from Bible Study and he was with a bunch of people at the bowling alley. So I end up going there, then we go to The Vista to play Bingo and then end up at O'Connell's with a bucket of beer and shots.
Dang the nice weather and fun and the ever-present temptation to be having fun rather than studying.
Yea, and today is Wednesday, which means Happy Hour at the Library with the spring break group. But after that, I'm locking myself up and doing homework and studying for my Stats II exam I have tomorrow.
Come on summer, hurry up! Actually come on June, cuz 3 days after school gets out I start intersession, but then I'm done for three months, yay!
Posted at 3:24 pm by Jac
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Some people in Chicago believe an image of the Virgin Mary has appeared on the side of an underpass. Their belief is so strong that they are actually stopping to pray here. Read the story here.
Here's what I don't understand. Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus even hint that we should pray to Mary or that Mary would intercede on our behalf. Christ gave the believers his Holy Spirit when he departed, the Holy Spirit intercedes on our behalf, that is who we pray through, not Mary.
Mary is of course to be loved and honored as the mother of Christ, but she was a mere person.
This so called image on the side of the underpass, first of all doesn't really look like the Virgin Mary to me. And besides, how do we know what the Virgin Mary looked like? Our ideas are based on images that man created. There is nothing wrong with these images or the representation of Mary, but they are mere images created in the minds of man.
Here is a copy of the image: 
Here is what Brandon had to say about it:
strangeguy808: looks like a vagina to me
strangeguy808: or a dementor
weirdcrazyworld: haha yes a dementor
I don't mean to be disrespectful, but it's a stretch to say that looks like the Virgin Mary. It does indeed look like a vagina in the middle, or a demontor (for you HP fans) or maybe a woman dressed in cloth and praying.
Nothing about this image seems unnatural or should elicit prayers to it. Other people are saying it's caused by salt runoff. Why do people look for images of Mary? Shouldn't you be looking for signs of your Creator and Savior. And believe me, those signs are not going to come in the form of salt runoff.
And the scariest thing about this is what some people are saying:
"Everybody's amazed. It's hard to begin to believe, but when you see it, it changed something in you. You believe in the faith," Snezna DiLorenz said.
Faith means NOT SEEING! If you see something then it ceases to be faith.
"I'm praying for everyone I know," said Monica Hammerschmidt, of Cicero. "And I feel like she's here."
It's good that you are praying for people, the Bible commands us to do that anyway. But why in the world would the mother of Jesus leave heaven to come reside under a bridge, seriously?
Oh ye of little faith, if this is what it takes for you to drop to your knees and pray.
*as a disclaimer, I would just like to say that I know not all Catholics pray to Mary, so please don't start leaving me comments telling me you are Catholic and you don't pray to Mary. If you are Catholic and do pray to Mary - I would respectfully like to see some evidence as to why, cuz scripturally I can't find validation for it.
Posted at 3:38 pm by Jac
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Monday, April 18, 2005
From days of old and long ago
Friendships are weird, the life cycle of a friendship is so unpredictable. It seems lately all these people from my past are coming back. Not necessarily back into my life, but contact is being made.
When my mom was up last weekend she was asking me whatever happened to my best friend from the second grade, Kasey Key? Kasey and I were pretty much attached at the hip, she was my first "get into trouble" sorta friend and we did everything together. After the 4th grade she moved to a different school and we pretty much lost touch. I heard through the grapevine that she graduated from The Colony, but that was all I knew.
Well - I found her on facebook the other day and we emailed each other a few times, and it was so great to hear from her. Gah, I loved that girl so much!
Then, last night I checked my email and I had an email from a wonderful long time friend Laura Burmeister. She and I were very good friends in jr. high and then she left our school. She and I stayed in touch on and off through most of high school, but really haven't talked at all in college. It was so nice to hear from her.
You know those friends from preschool that you have vague memories of and you think, "Gee would they even remember me.?" Yes, they probably do. At a new year's eve party in Dallas of freshmen year (college) I ran into a girl I went to preschool with. She and I hadn't so much as thought of each other in 15 years, but we remembered one another and our mutual friends.
Life is crazy and so unpredictable. I think back to high school graduation and all the wonderful friends I had, and it's so weird the ones I've stayed in touch with. I've sadly lost contact with some of my then good friends. But some of the people who weren't that great of a friend are now some of my greatest friends, who I never thought I would stay in touch with (the PHBC group!)
Seriously, no matter how much work goes or doesn't go into a frienship, it almost seems as though there is some external force deciding who will stay in your life and who won't. And it makes life so much more interesting.
I grieve for the friends I have lost sometimes, but ya know, I don't think you ever really lose a friend. Even if time goes by, those memories remain and I will always love my childhood friends, even if I never see them again.
Posted at 10:59 pm by Jac
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You know it's a slow news day at OU when the front page story has a headline that says, "A bill requiring the use of masking tape on campaign fliers failed." Who the heck cares, seriously?!!?
In other news, my boyfriend's little sister's picture is in the paper on page 3 - yay, go Rachel!
Posted at 2:38 pm by Jac
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