22 June 2005

Stupid Internet Survey: My theological worldview.

What’s your theological worldview?

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don’t think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this.

Emergent/Postmodern96%
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan79%
Classical Liberal75%
Roman Catholic61%
Neo orthodox57%
Charismatic/Pentecostal57%
Reformed Evangelical54%
Modern Liberal29%
Fundamentalist25%

What’s your theological worldview?
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How’d I score so low on Charismatic/Pentecostal? Maybe I’m not dogmatic enough.

Sometimes to beat the heat (’cause my dorm room faces the sun) I have to come to the air-conditioned sanctuary of my local Starbucks. It’s a 20-minute walk from campus, but it’s worth it.

And unlike other Starbucks, it has free wireless internet, so I bring my iBook. The rest of them are “T-Mobile HotSpots,” which means that T-Mobile will charge you $30 a month to get wireless internet from that location. That’s on top of any ISP charges you pay from home. Being cheap, that means I’m not going there when I have my iBook on me (which is fairly often).

Today it’s primarily to beat the heat, drink a frosty Frappuccino, and complain into my Xanga about why I’m still in the Santa Cruz area.

I’ve likely ranted about parts of this before… Part of the Teacher Education Program is fieldwork. This means I observe a high school classroom, teach a few lessons, do a small mountain of paperwork, and finish a sanity-snapping Teacher Performance Assessment for my professor.

This was supposed to start in September 2004. The program found me a class to observe then, but it was in Los Gatos. Without a car it was impossible for me to commute there. They found me another class in November, but the teacher never returned my calls. So I got an Incomplete in the class—until I could complete it in the spring semester.

My supervisor finally found me a teacher to observe… in April. Not January, April. I don’t blame her at all; sometimes these things can’t be helped. But I started three months late. My semester now extends three months into summer. At this point it feels like it’s swallowing up my whole summer. I was hoping to get a job, finally get that car, and spend time with my family. Instead, I’m in an uncomfortably warm dorm room with nothing to do but paperwork.

But wait—there’s more! On the up side, the school year here ends late—in mid-June instead of the first week of June—so I had some time to get some work in. Now school’s out. The paperwork’s not done… and the teacher appears to have dropped off the face of the earth. I can’t fault him for wanting to take a vacation, but I want to be done, dangit, and go home.

So I’m pretty frustrated right now. But the situation is out of my control. My options are to sit around here, sans job, and wait… or arrange to blow it off until August, which I’m not sure I can do. Plus there’s that job situation—who on earth is going to hire me to work for only two months? (And no, I am not going to lie about how long I can actually work there. I don’t do that.)