Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Too many options, none of them great

Luckily, the worst part of the flu seemed to pass me by, thanks in part to copious amounts of Vitamin C and Lysol. Also I may have actually learned the art of "taking care of myself" which is something that certian professors are big on here. I think this means that when I'm tired I actually sleep, and when I'm hungry I eat real food etc.
Again I'm blogging when I'm supposed to be doing this ethics paper. The prof gave us an extension until Friday (for a five page paper I thought it was a little extreme, but I'm not complaining). However, there are only so many ways to say that Christians should be nice to each other and especially to other people, and I'm on number 7 of the 10 ways I've found to say that, so I'm a little stuck.
But on with the real reason for the blog and thus the title. My life has too many unperfect options. I thought breifly about waxing philosophical about "perfection" and why I feel the need for the "perfect" option, but I've changed my mind, as that it's necessarily interesting and also it's a little too Platonic for me. (There is not a perfect "form" of my life "somewhere out there" in the great void) So here are the options. 1) Assuming they offer me the seminary communication job, we could stay in H-burg doing pretty much the same thing we're doing now. The weather is lovely. I have friends here and it would require minimal transition. The problem is that a) they haven't offered me the job yet b) it's not a full time job so no benefits, and some sort of a tax issue Brandon tried to explain to me that means basically my paycheck would be nil c) Brandon is insistant that if we stay we are going to stay in our apartment for another year, which is already driving me batty.
Option 2) Move back to Ohio, specifically Kidron area so Brandon could work at Kidron Kars. The advantages to this option are that then I would be close to family and perhaps closer to friends (although who knows where y'all might end up). Also in a few years i am aware of three churches that will be looking for pastors and two of the three have already had women in leadership so it wouldn't be a major issue. The disadvantages are a) no friends in the immediate area b) no job for me in the immediate future c) stupid small town life might actually cause me to self destruct.
Option 3) Do nothing, wait for something to fall into my lap and be very obvious. Disadvantages: a) completely against my personality b) don't want to wait that long
So as I said, too many options none of them good. If there is advice in cyberspace please direct me.

1 Comments:

At 6:58 AM, Blogger amylea said...

Who needs money? Besides, I'll be out of the Midwest in a few years (oh god, please!), and who knows where I'll end up. Of course, our dream plan (Move to a lovely mid sized liberal city in a warm climate where the three of us can teach, work, preach together for the rest of our lives) might have to go on hold until I publish (or perish) but in the department everyone assures me that "Thirty is the new Twenty" so we're good. I've got some interesting interprestations of Girard to share with you, since you don't get much of the secular reading of the Gospels...dude, it makes my head hurt. Jesus = Derrida.
*blink*

 

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