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Why I love Los Angeles, Part II.
I woke up this morning at around 11 and went down to the corner coffee shop to get some Joe. It was completely dead.
Why? Because Korea was playing France in the World Cup, and the entire population of Koreatown was watching the game. When Korea scored in minute 81, cheers erupted up and down the street.
That was when we discovered there was a huge screen up in a plaza at Wilshire and Western (about four blocks from our house), and just about everyone in K-Town who wasn't at home or at the Staples Center was there. There were about fifteen minutes left, so we hightailed it down to the plaza and watched the end of the game with several thousand of our closest Korean friends.
It was insanity.
I don't think anything like this was happening in Grand Rapids or Bowling Green this morning.
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Sick of long mealtime prayers? It's time you discovered The Prayer of Derek.
Oh, and I graduated. I was going to write something about it at the time, but I didn't really have much to say other than "hey, I'm graduating, congratulate me." I still don't, but it's too late to congratulate me, so now you all can just regret that you didn't congratulate me in time (or, if you did congratulate me, feel good about yourself). See if I remember you when I rise to fame and fortune.
Yeah. My mom has all the pictures from graduation. When she uploads them and sends them to me, I'll put one or two up. Don't get too excited, though - I looked pretty much the same as I always do, only I was wearing a square hat, a robe, and a colorful hood. It's not like I had a halo because I got a degree in theology. The halo's been there for a while.
So, yeah. Unless I get a letter from the Registrar telling me I didn't pass one of my last three classes - which I don't think is very likely, but I don't want to tempt fate - I'm now James Gillespie Gilmore V, M.A., M.A.T. You can just call me "Mamat" for short.
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Sundries...
I know you all were dying to see the Bollywood Beatles.
I finished all my writing today. 20 pages in just over four hours... not my best speed, but I hadn't eaten all day. All that's left tomorrow is a hell of a lot of reading... then the parents and brother come to town and I put on the mortarboard.
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The final statistics...
...for Divine Appointments: Patterns of Engagement between Burning Man and Emerging Churches:
93 pages
407 paragraphs
1045 sentences
26,880 words
138,725 characters
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2.8 sentences per paragraph
25.0 words per sentence
5.0 letters per word
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Passive Sentences: 8%
Flesch Reading Ease: 40.8 (out of 100)
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 12.0
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Being done with my Master's Thesis: Priceless.
I still have about 20 pages of writing and 1000+ pages of reading to go before I'm done with all the quarter's work... but I'm in the home stretch. Only 43 hours and counting before I'm entirely done with my MAT degree...
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Milestones.
Wow... I've been so engrossed in my work, I didn't notice that yesterday was mistersite.net's 4th anniversary! I started posting here on June 1, 2002 (and am, quite frankly, a little embarrassed at many of those early posts). Look how far I've come! After school's done, I'm hoping to roll out another new version of the site, in which I get rid of this inline frame (which was a good idea at the time, but is now garnering complaints) and add something I've been meaning to add for a while - a blogroll of my friends' and family's blogs (and perhaps a comic-roll of the webcomics I read every day).
I also failed to notice that four posts ago - "Why I love Los Angeles" - was the 300th post on this blog since I moved over to Blogger. That's another significant milestone, I think... not that anyone was counting, but still. And how many of those have been a waste of your time? Pretty much all of them.
Okay, back to writing... only 40+ more pages to write and 1500+ more pages to read, all before 5:00pm next Friday.
By the way, this is what I'm going to look like a week from tomorrow:
...only the lighting won't be as bad, and neither Michelle nor myself will look this bad. This really isn't the best picture, is it.
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