Fall Conference

This weekend is our regional RUF Fall Conference. I am in charge of housing assignments.

My roomate, Annie, might be starting a catering business. I am fully supportive. She has catered a wedding, will cater another this December, and is going to cater lunch for our conference on Saturday. She is the next Martha Stewart.

My friend Caroline is coming to stay with me tomorrow night. She will be the first non-Normanite, non-family member to see my house and room..

One week until TX-OU weekend!!! That's right, I said TX-OU. Not OU-TX. Because I'm. From. Texas. It's 8:59 and OU still (this word deleted so I can keep my job).

D Webb

From the September 19, 2006 Oklahoma Daily, by C J Macklin:

The OU chapter of Reformed University Fellowship along with the Baptist college ministry 9:10 will host a concert tonight at Oklahoma Memorial Union in the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom. Derek Webb, along with his wife Sandra McCracken, is set to take the stage at 8 p.m.

Doug Serven, campus minister for RUF, said Webb's music is prophetic and gospel-centered.

"He's good for getting people to talk about the church," Serven said. "We kind of resound with his message in our group."

Brittany Leard, intern for RUF, said she has known about Webb since he performed in the band Caedmon's Call, and she saw Webb perform once at a youth retreat. Leard said she is planning to see him again in the ballroom.

"He thinks a lot about the music he's writing," Leard said.

Webb has been on tour across the country in promotion of his new album "Mockingbird," and McCracken also has a new album, "Gravity Love."

Both Webb and McCracken are scheduled to play songs from their new albums, but they are also expected to sing songs together.

RUF is a college ministry run by the Presbyterian Church of America. Leard said college campuses have students in need of both gospel and friendship, and RUF is available for those students.

"I think college campuses are one of the loneliest places in the world sometimes," Leard said.

RUF meets every Wednesday at 9 p.m. for worship and throughout the week for small-group Bible study.
RUF also sets up weekend events for students such as movie nights and dinner.

Tickets for the show are $5 and can be purchased at the door. Derek Webb's new album can also be downloaded for free at the Web site www.freederekwebb.com.







Sorry for the sideways movie. If anyone can help me easily rotate it 90 degrees, that would be GREAT. I have no video editing software...

Here are some more pics from the evening:

House Names and Monsters

1. Annie, Katie, and I have been trying to name our house. So far we have come up with

BAK Shack



My favorite is the last one. What do you think? Any suggestions?


2. This will only make sense to the select few people who enjoyed watching "Watcher in the Woods" with us last night at the panty shanty. This is an alternate ending that seriously took the movie to a whole new level.




This movie is seriously a Mystery Science Theater waiting to happen:

Mrs. Aylwood: Did you hurt yourself?
Jan Curtis: Oh, it's just a little cut. I thought... I thought I saw something out there in the woods.
Mrs. Aylwood: What sort of person are you?
Jan Curtis: That's hard to say. Just average, I guess.
Mrs. Aylwood: Are you adventurous? And kind? Are you kind?
Jan Curtis: I... try to be.
Mrs. Aylwood: And sensitive...? Do you sense things?

3. Two weekends ago I went to the OU game against UAB. Sadly I didn't get any pictures of this historic event, but I was there. I must admit, it wasn't the greatest time ever had, but the game was a good one. I didn't sing or cheer.

4. I am playing this great new game called Virtual Villagers.

Your villagers are always going. You have to check on them. They are like children. Or dogs. So far mine have made some great advances in technology. They built a hut, and learned how to use a medical cactus.

5. Today, Annie has been playing a game on my hacked xbox called Illusions of Gaia.

It is kind of like Zelda on SNES. I left her at 4:30pm this afternoon to go to freshman bible study. Annie: "I'll probably just play for like five more minutes and then I'm going to get on the elliptical." When I returned she was nearly hysterical because she was stuck in a maze in the game and couldn't figure out where to go next.