I showed up to Newman a little late for Seekers already–only to find that they moved it to the Jesuit house on northside that week because Newman was a polling place! So I wasn’t going to go because I felt too lazy to walk up there, and it was approaching 8, but another girl showed up, so I walked with her. We got there at 8:30 or so, an hour late and halfway through the “icebreakers.” I’ve gotta make it a point to not be late, because the thing I’ve missed the most about fellowship stuff is the singing, haha. The bible passage was from revelations–and heaven and earth and sea will pass away and be made anew, and there will be no more tears, said the voice from the throne and all that. We talked about how it’s comforting (used in funeral masses a lot, actually) but difficult at the same time… Father Charlie mentioned he did a paper on stuff like visual imagery and the sea, so saying that even the sea will pass away is important since in one version of the creation story God passes over the sea and then creates the world…

Afterwards everybody hung around way longer than usual because it was dark and cold and we all had a long way to walk and we stayed to watch the election results come in on tv.

Besides two people from current decadence, the only person I knew was Bernie–he’s still there! And helping out a lot with Seekers, I think. He’s graduating in may. Have you met Father Charlie? Or Pious (if that’s how his name is spelled), the dude (what do they call people studying to become priests?) who helps lead seekers? They’re pretty funny. I’ve been meaning to introduce myself “officially” to Father Charlie or something but I keep running away.

And apparently “lots of people in decadence” go to Newman now. How strange–I was the only one (active) all the years I was in it. And it’s so strange when people you know from different circles turn out to be really good friends. And it’s so strange to return to a community after totally dropping it for so long; Newman was my entire life at one point, it’s unfathomable. I don’t deserve any welcoming but I’m so happy to receive it all the same. And I feel so old–people in the same place academically as me are four or more years younger, and the girl I walked up to northside with was in JUNIOR HIGH when I was on SMT. Hahahahaha