1. How to change a tire. Well, I watched a friend do it. I now know where all the tools are in my car.
2. www.scholar.google.com is amazing! The only glitch: a lot of the journal articles you have to pay $5-$15, but you can read the abstracts for free. But, I'm going to figure out the articles I want and find access to an academic library. Google is evil and convenient.
3. I love Newberry winners. I read The Great Gilly Hopkins yesterday and today Number the Stars. They're beautiful.
4. My projects for my internship are not high priority. Shocking, I know.
5. My blood type.
6. Some excellent quotations:
a. On Augustine of Hippo, Peter Brown comments: "Augustine often uses the word "progress" during his old age. but we have seen, that for him it did not mean the prospect of unrestricted change and adaptation: rather, it implies a consciousness of having left behind the superfluous, and of having become increasingly certain of the essential."
b. "Amor ipse notitia est (love itself is knowledge)" is from a sermon preached by Gregory the Great.
c. In a letter, William Bull comments about John Newton: "He looks very old, and has got exceedingly fat since I saw him last, but he is full of piety, holiness, and heaven-mindliness."
I am a life-long learner.
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