So the night of the 25th, I had to stay up late finishing a very irritating paper for my Wednesday morning class. Ugh.... the process of writing it felt like having a loose tooth behind my eyeball. I took a break for a couple of hours at one point to hang out with the guys after I made a brief last-minute run to Subway for a late-night snack and then grabbed a Mountain Dew from the vending machine in the laundry room. I did eventually get the paper finished - or, rather, I kept writing words and eventually reached the maximum limit, though I have very little idea of what I actually said. I had one of my best friends read through it (sent it to her via Skype) and affirm that it was indeed a paper.
So today I managed to get through both of my Wednesday classes; the morning class was better than usual, since we had a guest speaker, and the diversity is always exciting. Still, thank God for multitasking. During most classes, it's all that keeps me awake. Between classes, I hung out with a series of friends - being abnormally social for once - and also got things straightened out with the hold that had been on my class registration. It was taken care of automatically, but now I have confirmation of that, so I can register for classes on November 1st. During one part of my afternoon class, I spent some time looking through the course listing and decided on a schedule for the spring semester. I believe I've picked the following four classes for 10-11 credit-hours: "Christian Ethics", "Elementary Greek II", "John Wesley's Theology for Today", and "Introduction to Pastoral Care and Counseling". During the break in my afternoon class, I got in a discussion with the professor for a while. I recommended a useful monograph in the field (which is totally the sort of thing I do): Zeba Antonin Crook's Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. It's really a fantastic book. I purchased a copy when I was in college. Which, considering the price tag, was in retrospect an unwise move. Still, I treasure it and find it highly enlightening. I brought up some points from it to contribute to our class discussion. My conversation with the professor, anyway, meandered to us getting to know one another's academic backgrounds better, and I learned more about what she'd done her dissertation on.
After class, it was definitely time for a prompt nap (compensating for my greatly limited sleep the nigh before), followed by dinner with my friends. After that, I returned here and began watching season 1 of the show Arrested Development. I'm borrowing seasons 1-3 from one of my friends here. I've never seen it before, so this is fun. I'm a bit over halfway through the first season now. And that's pretty much been my night. I anticipate more tomorrow afternoon.
So today I managed to get through both of my Wednesday classes; the morning class was better than usual, since we had a guest speaker, and the diversity is always exciting. Still, thank God for multitasking. During most classes, it's all that keeps me awake. Between classes, I hung out with a series of friends - being abnormally social for once - and also got things straightened out with the hold that had been on my class registration. It was taken care of automatically, but now I have confirmation of that, so I can register for classes on November 1st. During one part of my afternoon class, I spent some time looking through the course listing and decided on a schedule for the spring semester. I believe I've picked the following four classes for 10-11 credit-hours: "Christian Ethics", "Elementary Greek II", "John Wesley's Theology for Today", and "Introduction to Pastoral Care and Counseling". During the break in my afternoon class, I got in a discussion with the professor for a while. I recommended a useful monograph in the field (which is totally the sort of thing I do): Zeba Antonin Crook's Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. It's really a fantastic book. I purchased a copy when I was in college. Which, considering the price tag, was in retrospect an unwise move. Still, I treasure it and find it highly enlightening. I brought up some points from it to contribute to our class discussion. My conversation with the professor, anyway, meandered to us getting to know one another's academic backgrounds better, and I learned more about what she'd done her dissertation on.
After class, it was definitely time for a prompt nap (compensating for my greatly limited sleep the nigh before), followed by dinner with my friends. After that, I returned here and began watching season 1 of the show Arrested Development. I'm borrowing seasons 1-3 from one of my friends here. I've never seen it before, so this is fun. I'm a bit over halfway through the first season now. And that's pretty much been my night. I anticipate more tomorrow afternoon.
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