Belle & Sebastian: “O Come O Come Emmanuel”

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What is perhaps the very best part about the weekend of Thanksgiving is the fact that more often than not, it ends with a beginning, namely the beginning of the Advent season!

And as much as I consider Mosaic my church family, one of my biggest gripes is that we seem pretty oblivious to about 2000 years of Christian history and what can be a pretty amazing season of celebration and expectation goes largely ignored. Oh well. I guess that’s one of the nice things about the 6pm gatherings — it frees up the mornings to go celebrate advent with communities that do get this right.

All in all, it’s been a much needed relaxing 4 days off from work, and as I go back tomorrow and face the ba-jillion (if that’s not a real number, I hereby appeal to the MAA for it’s official incorporation) tasks to be accomplished between now and December 19th, the final day of school before the winter recess. On the immediate docket: decimals, percents, commissions, markups, taxes, etc… which should be easy to incorporate into my students real lives as they start drooling over the sales and gadgets at their local Game Stop, and/or Best Buy.