{"id":1167,"date":"2013-08-15T00:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T05:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fearofwhales\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2013-08-15T00:10:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T05:10:21","slug":"texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fearofwhales\/2013\/08\/texas.html","title":{"rendered":"Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright so I missed a week! I\u2019m really trying hard not to do that, but I knew the next post should really be about my adjustment to Texas, and I\u2019ve had a hard time finding the internet time, and the depth of revelation I wanted.     <\/p>\n<p>In short: I\u2019m loving it.     <\/p>\n<p>Austin is a great town, and while it has been just egregiously hot here, it\u2019s been hot in a way that hasn\u2019t kept me from doing active things like riding my bike and going swimming. The restaurants are ridiculously good here and the food and gas are not nearly as expensive as I thought they would be compared to Kansas.     <\/p>\n<p>My apartment is old, but it\u2019s huge. Centrally located just north of downtown in the middle of campus surrounded by grass and trees. I live alone, but an connected enough to the buildings around me that I have access to things like tools if I need them. I am refurnishing on craigslist.     <\/p>\n<p>Classes haven\u2019t started yet and I still need a church, and a job. but so far I\u2019m not worried.     <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>As classes start I\u2019m expecting to be rocked a bit. First years in seminary tend to. I\u2019m not sure I can depend on the ideas I will be having or how quickly I will be able to share them without annoying people, but I am hoping to use the next couple months to dump unused Kansan ideas while I write new Texas ones for later publication. There is a lot that I\u2019ve learned which I\u2019ve yet to share, so I hope to go back and remember where I\u2019ve been for a while as I go somewhere new. I hope that makes sense, and I hope you\u2019ll join me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright so I missed a week! I\u2019m really trying hard not to do that, but I knew the next post should really be about my adjustment to Texas, and I\u2019ve had a hard time finding the internet time, and the depth of revelation I wanted. In short: I\u2019m loving it. 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