Jeremy's Blog

Last Friday I sat down to watch the previous night’s episode of “The Big Bang Theory” (TBBT). This is a weekly occurrence for me as I do not have cable television. For those of you unfamiliar with the show, let me give you a basic rundown. The show chronicles the lives of Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) and Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki, or as many of you know him, the son from Christmas Vacation). These 2 geniuses live together in a California apartment; despite their quirky features and Sheldon’s idiosyncrasies, the duo have an intimate group of friends: Howard Wolowitz and his wife Bernadette, Sheldon’s girlfriend Amy Farrah Fowler, and forever-alone colleague Rajesh Koothrappali. The four male characters work together at Caltech: Howard is an engineer and the other three are physicists. With the show being based around science, not many Christian values can be taken from it. Just look at the title! Here are the lyrics to the theme song: “Our whole universe was in

Let’s get this straight: I’m NOT an English person. In high school, here was my priority list for classes: math, science, history/social sciences, everything else, and then English. My brain doesn’t think about sentence structures or parts of speech, it thinks about Algebra and Psychology, sports, and FOOD . I can communicate effectively with others (although I will talk about someone who cannot in my next post). Therefore, I have never been excited to write a blog. I have several friends who write regularly on blogs, and I enjoy reading their musings on life. This past fall I took part in a program called OLD (Outdoor Leadership & Discipleship) School through the parent organization SWO (Snowbird Wilderness Outfitters) in Andrews, NC. The program was a BLAST . I was able to try many outdoor disciplines and I learned a lot about myself throughout my three months there. God communicated to me that I need to work on specific areas of my life. One specific area is exhortation. F