{"id":142,"date":"2008-02-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fearofwhales\/2008\/02\/surfboards-cars-and-unicycles.html"},"modified":"2011-04-23T21:28:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T01:28:23","slug":"surfboards-cars-and-unicycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fearofwhales\/2008\/02\/surfboards-cars-and-unicycles.html","title":{"rendered":"Surfboards Cars And Unicycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ryangaffney.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/bw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" class=\"alignright at-xid-6a014e87f1cb84970d01538dfeac66970b\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/fearofwhales.typepad.com\/.a\/6a014e87f1cb84970d01538dfeac66970b-pi\" style=\"border:0 none\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou  guys still don\u2019t know me out there, I want to do the normal blog thing  for a post and talk about my day, That way you can get some perspective  on the kind of person talking to you.<br \/>\nI woke up this morning at  11am after sleeping through 3 alarms trying to wake me up in time to get  prepared and bike to my 11:10 class which is about 10 minutes away by  car, 13 by bike.<br \/>\nI threw my clothes on and woke up my roommate,  Rob, to ask if I could borrow his car since mine was broken, he let me  and I raced off to school.<br \/>\nI arrived in class at about 11:17 to  find my professor sitting in an empty room. I say \u201cwell obviously I\u2019m  late\u201d he says \u201cclass was canceled\u201d I say \u201csee you tomorrow!\u201d<br \/>\nI go back home and back to sleep<br \/>\nI  woke up again at about noon-thirty, a little bit before Rob, who is  headed out to go surfing. I ask if he wants to go to lunch first, he  does, we go.<br \/>\nAt lunch we talk mostly about girls, and a little  about theology. Then we spoke about their intersection a little bit.  Speaking of which, leave me a comment, where do Christians get the idea  that it\u2019s not okay to date casually and get to know a girl? Both Rob and  I think that is a fantastic plan compared to DTRs and \u201ccourting\u201d.<br \/>\nWhen I came home, I watched some Lost, and then met my dad, who I worked with to fix my car.<br \/>\nAfter  we finished we went out to dinner, where talked mostly about nothing  and a little about theology. Speaking of which, leave me a comment, if  my pastor told me, about a mission application I turned in that was  lacking two out of the three references accidentally, that I should \u201cNot  even worry about sending them\u201d because he will \u201ccall me if the  committee needs them\u201d\u2026 Does that mean I\u2019m almost defiantly in or almost  defiantly out? Because neither my dad nor I could tell.<br \/>\nAfter dinner I checked my e-mail, and worked on an article about abortion until 7, when I headed off to Unicycle Club.<br \/>\nUnicycle  Club is exactly what it sounds like, it\u2019s a club for people who like to  ride unicycles or who want to learn. It meets at the giant university a  few blocks away from my little private one.<br \/>\nIn case you are  wondering\u2026 I\u2019m in the learning to unicycle category, not the enthusiast  category. I can go about 4 yards before I fall.<br \/>\nAfter Unicycles I  went dancing. I swing dance at a ballroom in my town. Today I think I  finally learned the \u201cswingout\u201d, which, assuming I got it right, means  that I am now officially \u201cintermediate\u201d<br \/>\nThen I went home, made a salad, ate it, and wrote this blog<br \/>\nNow I&#039;m going to sleep.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You guys still don\u2019t know me out there, I want to do the normal blog thing for a post and talk about my day, That way you can get some perspective on the kind of person talking to you. 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