mikao's world

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this afternoon i was in a grad meeting and my youth min prof stopped by the door and mouthed to me that i needed to come and see him in his office when i was done with my meeting. now, this is very strange... because i really don't know my prof all that well, and i couldn't think of anything we'd have to discuss, other than papers or something like that, and i couldn't think of a paper he'd have to discuss.

well, for those of you who've been around awhile, you'll remember back in december that i did an independent study called "adolescent youth culture profile" on adolescent webloggers. all the assignments were based around the youth culture (adolescent webloggers) that we chose to study and infiltrate.

well, i thought my papers were okay. he however, thought it was absolutely fabulous and just loved it, and says it is the best paper he's read in at least a couple of years and went on and on. he loved how i "thought outside the box" of traditional youth cultures.

i must admit, i was pretty surprised to hear that.

i hadn't even talked to him beforehand about what i was planning to do for my independent study... which i was supposed to have. i just went ahead and did my assignments.

he said he was hoping i could come in next week and show him a bit of the weblogging world... but i'm going home on Sunday. i told him i'd email him some stuff. he wants to develop an assignment for a course called Contemporary Youth Issues next January where students are assigned to find a teen online and connect with them via their blog. now that would be an interesting assignment for those who have no idea that the blogging world exists.

i had talked to andrew careaga (an author of internet ministry stuff), about my assignment back just after i had finished it, and sent him a copy, and he got back to me this week asking if he could have permission to quote my paper in his revision of his book "e-vangelism"... so i thought that was pretty cool too. maybe all this internet surfing hasn't been for nothing. joanne says maybe i am a genius after all! :) ha ha.

anyways, i should get off this here internet and do some "real work." real work, of course, consists of packing my room.

have a great afternoon and evening everybody.