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03 July 2008::  12:27 p.m. I have had a long-time interest [fascination?] with the concept of dreams.  No, I’ve not spent much time with Carl Jung, but his stuff is quite interesting!  I tend to have intense dreams, vivid and in color.  Oftentimes, my dreams emerge following a word or series of statements that a person utters.  It is unusual that my dreams are evoked from something visual.  That is, my dreams are stimulated from narrative [the verbiage of life] and not the visually constructed narrative.  I find this quite interesting!  I’m not sure what it all means or how to interpret it.  Certainly, it is fodder for analysis!  And so, I’ll deposit it here and leave it here for a bit.  Perhaps I’ll return to this post and add a bit more to it?  I don’t know?  But for now, it is important to deposit that my mind is stimulated by words:  words that I hear and not see.  The mind is stimulated, for sure. 

These are some of the questions I’m living!

• Forgot dress pants
  Will remain in office all day long
  Am sitting barefoot in office
  Feel a little absent minded! #
• @conservadora: SPF baby! #
• Back to work, though I’d love to be napping! #
• There’s a chimp on the loose in CA! I learned this from a Chicago newspaper! #
• Blackberry yogurt and dark chocolate raspberry nectar cacao! This will for sure tickle my throat and warm my soul! #
• I would like to close my eyes! #

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• So, 1st family dental, a dentist office here in Chicago I don’t use, just sent me an e-card wishing me a “Happy Canada day”? I’m from t … #
• And its the 1st day of my bday month! #
• @conservadora do it, lady! #
• @ambermacarthur nice! From my city! That’s from where I Twitter everyday! Happy Canada day! #

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• @jessicahalem I ended up staying in cuz of the rain! Sorry luv! Get your loot and get the hell outta there! #
• @jessicahalem you sound effin desperate sister! Get your insurance check first before the homos! #
• @conservadora July = 2 things: Le your de France AND my birthday month! I take more than a day and just celebrate the whole damn month! #
• @jessicahalem you’re hilarious! #
• @conservadora Thanks, lady! I’m celebrating or will soon starting 01 July! #
• @conservadora just sent you an email #
• Only in TX will you hear something @ beating a teen for Jesus! Something from the supreme court? #
• @jessicahalem: hilarious! #
• And I’m anxiously waiting for Le Tour! #
• @jessicahalem: how’d it turn out yesterday? I mean, I know it was raining and all! #
• @jessicahalem: yes yes! #
• @conservadora I can see this point, certainly! However, as a comedian, shouldn’t the tweets be taken as such if coming from Halem?! #
• There is a guy talking on his mobile and driving his Vespa! Crazy! #

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• Ok, so I’m eating ice cream and loving it! #
• Happy pride/queer life to Chicago! #
• @jessicahalem: I’ll be at the bash today; I see you’re hosting! #
• Thank you Judith Butler: “I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.” #
• @jessicahalem you know that miller lite is just like H2O! Drink it up!! #
• @conservadora: when’s this thing gonna end? #
• Ok, I think its over? Mass people congregating means what exactly? #

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Sunday’s prose:

In grad school I purchased a book entitled:  Living the Questions.  I remember the book clearly.  This text, however, was as book discussing the theological implications of the Nicene Creed, Feminist Theology, and the ways in which culture impacts the questions we ask and live.  I find myself now “living the questions” but living “different” questions.

So, I’m living the questions.  Some days I’m wondering what questions, really!  What really am I asking?  Am I simply existing or am I living critically?  Am I using the lens that I have been given as a theologian?  How many steps back do I need to take to reclaim the questions that I need to ask, or should I simply need to keep walking faithfully and intentionally forward in the manner that I am?  Its hard to tell!  Are my questions becoming an “old time memory,” or are my questions becoming something different?  

I know I’m moving and changing and evolving, and my writing is incorporating my current experiences.  The loss of the academy is certainly a loss, and I’m trying to incorporate that loss into my experience!  I know NOT applying again feels right!  I look at my book shelf and I’m not compelled to read the texts?  Kind of odd, I know!  I’m not compelled to talk high theory, which is also kind of odd, I know!  A phase?  A twist in the tunnel?  Another question for me to ask, for sure!

The horizon still looks amazing; the future remains hopeful, and I’m grateful!  I’m committed to living the questions–Texas Style which is braggadocios!  Though, I should mention, I might swagger in a queer manner but I’m not cocky nor am I pretentious!