march sadness....

...it's so sad that duke lost. they played the ducks played on thursday night. so sad. to be honest, i'm still in a little bit of shock and denial that they're out. so let's just not talk about it.

in other news, easter was great. the services were really fun. this is the first ministry at sunset where i haven't had a behind the scenes/leadership/planning role so it's interesting/hard for me to just keep my mouth shut. the great thing is that there really isn't much to say. the leadership is solid. jill is a phenomenal choir director and communicator, jay is fun to work with and leads the band like a pro, and janet keeps them all in sync. it's very refreshing to not have to take care of anything. all i have to do is sing. that's it. just worhip God with other people, such an awesome feeling. so often at churches people who are capable and outgoing get bumped from one ministry to another just because they can fill a certain role or perform a certain task. over the last year, after my 8 month "learning process" with fusion and other things at sunset i've learned the benefit of saying no. it's hard to do, especially when you are the type of person who wants to help out. but it's not worth getting burnt out. so needless to say i really enjoyed just singing.


i'm housesitting this week at a cute little condo and it's got me really excited to move out in may! some of you may know this already, but my friend carly and i are moving into the commons at sylvan highlands the first weekend of may (sorry cas, i'm gonna miss your graduation). my slogan for the last few months has been "out my parents door before i'm 24", which is june, so i'm ahead of the game!

a few weeks ago one of our clients at work, the Glaser Progress Foundation, sponosred a hearing on Capitol Hill in DC focused on rethinking the GDP (gross domestic product). the hearing date landed just a few days from the 40th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the inadequacies of the then GNP. basically, if you walked outside right now and got hit by a car and spent a week in the hospital, that would register as an increase of the GDP. as Kennedy said, it doesn't measure our happiness or the "reasons we love being American". our client made a video based on some of our recommendations and posted it on YouTube, you can check it out here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e51JnJPPY0E. it's interesting b/c this was pitched to over 100 reporters in the U.S. and made it into the LA Times and a few others. but someone in italy got ahold of it and the hits on the video have gone up by a couple thousand. its crazy. i find it fascinating that people outside of our country and more engaged in a dialouge about our GDP than our own country is. hopefully my man barack can get some chatter going on this too, just as he did with his speech on race. these are issues that need to be brought out from behind the curtain.

what do you think?