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3.14.2007

Random facts about Charity Bates

I was thinking about this yesterday, and I realized that most of the people who read this blog don’t really know me that well. There is actually someone who has me on their blog roll and has misspelled my name. Charity Bates. Yeah, I'm not naming names, but maybe, you should fix that. So that thought concerned me, and therefore, I decided to compile a top-ten list of mostly random, totally true facts about myself. Kristine can attest to all of them, they are all true. So, I hope you enjoy it, and if you think that I am a pretty great person, then maybe we could actually get to know each other outside of the ‘blog world.’

1) I love old books. I went to the library yesterday and got the most amazing books, old classics for $0.25 a piece. I was so stoked. I bought 13 of them! But hands down the best one was ‘Modern’ English drama. (In quotes because all of the plays were pre-1800’s). Including: Dryden’s ‘All for Love,” Sheridan’s ‘School for Scandal,’ and Goldsmith’s ‘She Stoops to Conquer.” Words cannot describe how happy these books make me. This leads me to my next point.

2) I am a total Theatre Nerd. I say this unashamedly. I love theatre. I love theatre history and dramaturgy. I am just a sucker for a good play. In fact, I have over 200 plays at my house right now!

3) One more point about theatre is that I love musicals. My favorite musical is Urinetown: the Musical. This is not a joke. It is HYSTERICAL! It is a self-referential play, brechtian in style, a satire on the adverse effects of monopolizing corporations on society as well as a shameless a parody of Les Mis. Come on, it’s just wonderful. My favorite quote goes like this: Officer Lockstock – “People hear lots of things about Urinetown of course, and that’s just the way we like it. For example, a little boy once asked me, ‘Is Urinetown actually a nice place to live? Gingerbread houses along golden frothy canals, like Venice? Only different?’ I didn’t say yes, but I didn’t say no either.”

4) During my senior year of college, I go so burnt by my church that I switched churches and started going to a church that meets under the overpass of I-35. The congregation was mostly made up of homeless guys, hippies and bikers. It was awesome.

5) I am 25 years old and I still sleep with a stuffed animal. His name is Holzwarth and he is a 1 ½ foot tall penguin.

6) When I was growing up, I went to a French Immersion School. What does that mean? It means that when you get to school on the first day of Kindergarten, the teacher only speaks to you in French. I took all of my classes in French: math, science, social studies etc. We only took ½ an hour of English a day to study reading, writing and spelling. I did that for 8 years and then I moved to Texas where everyone speaks Spanish.

7) I have this one prayer that I found in a book and loved and so I pray it everyday.
Father, grant me the grace to never loose sight of:
the exceeding sinfulness of sin,
the exceeding righteousness of salvation,
the exceeding glory of Messiah,
the exceeding beauty of holiness,
and the exceeding wonder of grace.

8) My car’s nickname is “The Chariot.”

9) I absolutely love food. Lots of food. All types of food. I know that this flies in the face of all that the ‘fasted lifestyle’ stands for, but there is nothing I can do about it. However, there are two things that I cannot tolerate, coconuts and popcorn.

10) I am the oldest of 5 kids. I really love my family even though I haven’t lived at home for the past 7 years. Here is a picture…an old-y but a good-y.



That's it. I hope you enjoyed your 'random Charity facts day'!

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

for the record, that's a horrid picture of a coconut--it looks like it had too much fun on st pat's day and lost its innards or something...

i flipping like you (despite the fact that you don't like popcorn... we can overcome this minor problem...). let us compare schedules soon and have our people call each other so we can get tea somewhere obscure and artsy (like the intern kitchen, if all else fails).

ChriS & Yvette Ferguson said...

Charity,

I immediately and frantically ran to my blog roll to insure I was not the sloppy typist that misspelled your name. Alas, I got it right.

Jerry James said...

How can you not love someone who has church under an overpass with hippies and sleeps with a penquin?

Joshua Forrey said...

Wow, those random facts are pretty rad. Anyways, I know I don't really know you but I did spell your name right. So, just read my blogs any time you desire. God bless you and Urinetown!

Jonathan said...

Now I know, and knowing is half the battle.

GI Joe!!!!!!

ChriS & Yvette Ferguson said...

Charity,

Girl You Posted Photos! You Rock!

Kristine said...

I think all of you who comment on this page need to sit down wit Chi and have her explicate the underlying themes that are prevalent in Urinetown - and then you need to go listen to the soundtrack. It could actually take a whole roadtrip to explore that subject.
Then you need to listen to the soundtrack for 'Avenue Q', except it might be a little racy for the IHOP community.
Just so you know, Charity loves being called Chi Beta. You should ask her about that.

Christine said...

Awesome. Thanks for sharing! I enjoyed reading.

(And sorry to hear about that Texas thing... quite unfortuate. I too got stuck in Texas for a little while. Fortunately, we moved when I started high school, so I quite appropriately took spanish classes.)

charity said...

Umm... Kristine, I don't think that we can talk about the 'Q' here at IHOP. I think that racy might be putting it mildly. But I love you so much. Thanks for being one of the faithful few to call me Chi Beta.

Kristine said...

Yeah, it may be racy, but it makes me giggle and I can't help thinking of you when I hear it - which that alone should make it worth listening to, except I only listen to it when I'm with you and so, therefore, could negate the entire listening process because I would then be in the presence of the Reason why the Q makes me so happy. *deep breath* Anyhoo, I love reading and you should write another one right now. . . ok. . .go!

Anonymous said...

I am now a believer. I mean I was before, but not like this. This time it's for real.




-MC SearchLight

charity said...

MC Searchlight? That sounds vaguely familiar, but I can't seem to place it. Would you care to identify yourself?

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