lately i've been trying to read through morning prayer (rite II, courtesy of mission st. clare) every day before i get down to work -- it's both a good and hopeful grounding for the day and a way to get my mind moving before the caffeine really hits my system.
today is the day before my exam, and the old testament reading is from kings: solomon asks for the discernment to do what is right, and God, seeing that solomon is good, grants him "a wise and discerning mind; no one like you has been before you and no one like you shall arise after you." the fame, fortune and long life are incidental.
ok, so: if i sit around meditating on justice and my place in the world, do you think God will appear to me in a dream and grant me a wise and discerning mind? because honestly, i'm pretty sick of studying actual content.
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by day a political scientist! by night a significantly less intellectually responsible political scientist!
amelia.hoover@[university].edu
welcome to my blog. i'm a ph.d. candidate in political science at yale, a native midwesterner, and a happy californian. right now my research is about armed organizations and how they organize their violence against noncombatants, or fail to. i'm also interested in intentional community, gender in the academy, grad school pedagogy, fat politics, the religious left, my partner, our local farmers' market and idiosyncratic capitalization practices.