Jesuits

  • Today: Habemus Papam.

    If you speak a dead language or dropped everything yesterday at approximately 3:30 EST to watch a live feed from the Vatican, you know that habemus papam means “Ladies and gentlemen, we haaaaave a pope.”  (I added the ladies and gentlemen part.)  We don’t have just any old pope, we have our first Jesuit pope, and our first pope from a continent other than Europe since the Middle Ages.  I…

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  • Today: Philadelphia or bust.

    [tweetmeme source=”elizabethev” only_single=false]Hopefully, it’s Philadelphia.  Who likes a bust? [Photo source] The first and last time I was in Philadelphia was 1999.  My parents and I drove down for my college interviews at St. Joseph’s and Villanova.  During the same trip, we hit up Fairfield,…

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  • Today: May I cut in?

    [tweetmeme source=”elizabethev” only_single=false]After a semi-soul searching run on Saturday morning, I dug through my drawers for my crappiest outfit.  I showered, threw on a hoodie and hit the Mass Pike. Somewhere around Framingham, I hit the most wild thunderstorms I’ve seen in a while. I…

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  • Today: Gone to pot.

    4/20 seems to have something to do with weed.  I don’t have much to add on the subject, but the Arabic word for grass is hasheesh, and our entire class of college juniors and seniors giggled our way through that chapter (which was about neighborhoods,…

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