So it's one of those busy weeks where I have to take a day off my main job in order to do stuff for my other job, meaning doing five days worth of work in four days and …
You get the idea. Anyway, I'm off to our nation's capital with a pack of seminary students for nine meetings in two days with various Christian/religious political groups in D.C.
Here's the itinerary, if you want to follow along at home:
* Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs
* American Baptist Office on Governmental Relations
* Americans United [the lobbyists formerly known as Americans United for the Separation of Church and State]
* National Association of Evangelicals
This trip also means I'll be away from the computer all day Friday, so I'll be two weeks behind on Left Behind Fridays. This will involve playing a bit of catch-up — meaning, probably, upcoming installments of Left Behind Sunday and Left Behind Monday, plowing through chapters 11 and 12.
In the meantime, go congratulate Roxanne on accomplishing her 2005 resolution of reading 52 books in 52 weeks. That's something I haven't done since I had a part-time job at Encore Books.
(Remember when there were more than two bookstore chains? Ah, memories. At Encore I read dozens of books every week. Don't be too impressed — they were mostly children's books. This was the brilliant advice of a coworker there: Read children's books during the dinner break. In a few weeks, you'll have read most of the section and be able to impress parents with your expertise. Plus you get to talk books with little kids who've got that first flush of enthusiasm for reading, which is cool.
It was during this time at Encore that I finally read The Jungle Pyramid — No. 56 in the original Hardy Boys series, and the only one I'd failed to read back in fourth grade. It's the one where Chet Morton gets a new hobby and the boys stumble across a mystery while their dad, world-famous detective Fenton Hardy, is away on a case. Then, by coincidence, Chet's hobby helps them find the bad guys, but they get captured. Fortunately, by another coincidence, it turns out their mystery is the same case their dad was working on and Fenton comes to the rescue. You know, that one.)
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