faith is a journey

Spoke with my advisor today, and the PhD program at BU is being crossed off the list. Right now, BC's combined MSW/MA in Pastoral Ministry is leading the list, with other Boston programs on it's heels. The non-Boston programs under consideration - MSW programs at Smith, Univ. Washington, Univ. of Maryland, Univ. of Michigan. Penn is also in the running, but it's pricey.

Much other personal stuff came out of meeting with advisor as well. That's because he bounces between spiritual advisor and academic advisor often and with ease.

Also met with my former supervisor at Suffolk University about opportunities for programming & lecturing there this schoolyear (for which I get paid extra!).

Imminent on the to-do list - narrow down mdiv thesis topic from 'the theological issue of gender in early christianity' to something more narrow. possibly focusing on androgyny and genderless ideal. we'll see. need either a time period or authors or type of source or something. Other thoughts are iconography and/or gender bending in hagiography.

Tonight: I bake a cake for our chaplain. I was challenged to bake an 'orange(flavoured) cake'. Am debating between orange rum cake & orange filled cake.

So, to preserve this recipe I picked up, I'm posting it here. This was today's snack for Anglican reading group - a pumpkin spice roll with cream cheese filling. I made it on a whim because I was pie-ed out with baking pies for the bake off, so i wanted to do something different - but wanting to keep the pumpkin theme since American thanksgiving is next week. It came out well, although the filling didn't need all that sugar.
But anyways, thought I'd share:
( recipe )

So, I made strawberry rhubarb pie today for mother's day. And well, there was leftover pie crust (because I made a lattice crust) and leftover strawberries. So, what did I do? Turned it into strawberry pierogi. Rolled out the pie dough, cut out circles, wrapped the strawberries with pie crust, dropped them in boiling water, took them out when they floated, sprinkled them with sugar and voila! makeshift strawberry pierogis. Quite delicious actually. I may have to make a habit of this when I'm too lazy to make my own pierogi dough.

Now to wait until the pie finishes baking. :)