Weekend Update

This week has been kind of blah. Not much progress on any front. I think our lifebook will be done this week; I've gathered almost all the pictures together. Dad has a ticket back to Japan in the third week of March. He's spending a lot of time in his room practicing an obscure Central Asian language. I was distracted in church this morning and didn't really follow the sermon.

There are a lot of big, substantive posts I want to write, but it's hard to get a block of time in place to write them. I'm going to make a note right here so I don't forget any of the topics:

1) Religion -- specifically, the Charismatic Pentecostalism practiced by a few branches of my family.
2) Intraracial adoption and me (follow up on Intraracial (Same-Race) Adoption)
3) Follow up on Race, Demographics and Decatur: Part II discussing racial diversity and the school system, both public and private.
4) An argument that as a general concept, adoption is paradoxically both very selfish and very selfless, and attempts to view it as either/or lead to circular debate.
5) An examination of the idea that parents of color are better prepared to teach their children how to resist racism (agree, but with some major qualifications)

I'm really looking forward to Rome tonight. Last Sunday they skipped an episode, which was excruciating.

P.S. If you like really surreal political humor check out this campaign ad.