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September 12, 2006

Absurdity happens...

These past 2 days have been ridiculous... I'm not a good story teller, so these vignettes are probably more of those "you had to be there" kind of moments. =)

On Sunday, I arrive at church around my typical time - an hour before service - to prepare the coffee and such for the cafe time. When I find that my cardkey doesn't work, I head over to the sanctuary and find an older lady from the Cantonese congregation waiting outside. Luckily, my cardkey still works for the sanctuary so I open the door and invite her inside to escape the chill morning air.

We wait inside... I try making some small talk with my broken Cantonese (I really need to stop trying so hard... that's when I get more nervous speaking. Ugh.) a few times, which quickly trails off into a comfortable silence. As the minutes pass by, I start wondering where everyone is. Usually someone is at the sanctuary by now, whether it be the worship team, or well... anyone!

As I glance back outside and note the continued quietness, for the briefest of moments, the most irrational thought pops into my head: "Have we been left behind?!?!"

I give the nice grandma-figure a subtle, quick glance. "Hmm... she seems like a nice lady with a mature relationship with God... we were just talking about how God will provide a new English congregation pastor... she wouldn't be left behind (along with me), right??"

After pre-service prayer with Kaili, I shared what "happened" earlier... to which she immediately laughed and exclaimed: "How could you not be sure about where you're going??"

Yeah... sometimes I amaze myself with the sheer absurdity and ridiculousness of my thoughts. =P
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Tonight, I was peacefully catching up on some anime - enjoying a blessedly rare relaxing night, and preparing to sleep. Then inexplicably, I start sneezing... but instead of passing, the sneezing gets increasingly violent! At first, I thought I had a bad allergy attack; but with each subsequent sneeze, I felt my throat burn more and more. I blew my nose repeatedly, expecting to see blood or something since my throat felt really raw!

When I started having difficulty breathing, that irrational little voice came back and wondered: "Are we under biological attack or something? But why the HECK would terrorists target US???"

At this point, I hear my mom sneezing and choking violently too, so I run around the house to check on my brother. I hear him sneezing and gagging in the bathroom downstairs and ask if he's OK. At some point, he confesses what happened: apparently, seeing my bottle of bear spray lying around made him curious as to how it worked... so he sprayed some into the backyard... nearly incapacitating himself and the rest of the family in the process.

So, moral of the story: bear spray works, and it's quite effective on humans! ;)

(Needless to say, no one was amused at the time... in fact, it's almost 2 hours later and my throat still kinda hurts!)

Posted by stevelee at September 12, 2006 01:34 AM

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