The Speaker gets a blog

In addition to our own recent foray into the world of blogging, apparently Denny Hastert has also made a leap into cyberspace. An office mate (aka: The Blog Prince) recently IMed me this sweet link http://www.speaker.gov/journal/index.shtml. There's two posts on it currently, but I really think there's the potential there for something at least semi interesting. I mean, who wouldn't want to read a blog by the Speaker of the House? I suppose chances are good that it's being written by some underpaid, overworked intern, but I'd like to think that Mr. Hastert at least reads what's being written before it's posted. The most recent post is really more of a news article, and I find that frankly disappointing. I can find news online myself. If things move more in the direction of the first post, I may become a regular reader. Too bad there aren't open comments. :-)

So now, you two need to post. I've got three!

What I've learned

So, I've recently come to the realization that my undergraduate experience can be distilled to about two or three points of actual useful learning. You know, the kinda stuff I might use in real life (read, after graduate school).

1. Substance is way more important than appearance. It doesn't matter what people call themselves, what they are is more important. I've decided that I'm going to try to stop caring how I look to other people and care more about what kind of person I am. It's probably way too big a personal improvement job for me to take on, but it's worth a try.

2. People are not things and should under no circumstances be treated as such. I think this is pretty self-explanatory, and also pretty obvious to anyone with any sort of Christian values. But it's really amazing how many times people forget it.

3. I really don't know all that much. Also, pretty obvious, and graduate school is only making it worse. Before I went to HC, I thought I had the whole Christian thing figured out. Yeah . . . right. When I graduated HC, I thought I had a pretty good understanding of chemistry. Grad school is doing a pretty good job of beating that ridiculous thought out of my head.

So that's what I know. What do you know?

This is a test

Ok, so I'm trying this out over here, because on Xanga you need an account for comments. I figure if we can't be as cool as midwestmindset, why bother?