Jeremy LangleyMy website for the random times when I blog

Life is extremely busy for me these days – and I mean EXTREMELY busy. I’m not really complaining, I guess.

Coming up on April 1, SAU is celebrating its 100th birthday. We’re calling it Founders’ Day, and as chair of the Centennial Celebration Committee, my plate has been pretty full. The stress is getting a bit more intense as we get closer, but I know a lot of that stress is coming from trying to force myself to perform up to standards that I may have set too high. We’ll see. There is a wonderful steering committee behind the celebrations, and I am blessed to get to work with them. I’m determined that there will be abundant sunshine on April 1. Please pray that I’m right. For more information on the festivities, click here.

Besides Founders’ Day, there’s Muleriders on Tour. That’s where we’re going around the state holding gatherings for alumni and friends of the University. A lot of work, but there should be a lot of profit in the end by getting alumni back involved in the University. We held our first MOT in Texarkana this week. It was extremely successful.

I’m thinking about taking a vacation at some point in the early summer. Now I just have to decide where to go and what to do.

Stay tuned…

CNN reports that George W. Bush was offered a job as the greeter at a Dallas hardware store. He showed up.

Although I hope to stick to writing about things closer to home, I found an interesting article on CNN.com that says more women are robbing banks these days. Since 2002, the number of women bank robbers has jumped 25 percent! The article notes that many of the women claim they were forced to rob banks in order to feed or by diapers for their children. What kind of excuse is that? Aren’t there government programs that can help struggling mothers until they get back on their feet? I’m not a big supporter of welfare in general, but I think it’s perfectly fine for a single mother (or a family for that matter) to take advantage of the benefits long enough to get back on their feet. And isn’t it really the church’s role to help people in these times? What ever happened to that?

I could go on and on about this topic.

Speaking of women bank robbers, do you remember the “Barbie Bandits” from last year? I think they just wanted to buy some new clothes.