Drugs

So, friends are drugs, I think. It's amazing how you can spend a few hours...just a few hours...with some of your friends, and you get a high. Especially solid, Christian friends where you really feel comfortable being yourself around (is that in any way a grammatically correct sentence?). After you spend a little time with close friends, not even very long, and then you leave, there is serious withdrawal that you go through. I hate that withdrawal--I need to get more solid Christian friends in Bloomington, or spend more time with the ones I have--that way I can deal with the pain by "shooting up" again.

Good weekend

As nice and relaxing as it is not not care much about your classes, and to have a lot of free time, there just something that feels good and right about spending a couple of days and getting an insane amount of work done. In the past couple days, I have:
--graded midterms
--emailed the coordinator the key was wrong
--computed midterm grades
--entered midterm grades onto at least 2 different websites
--played poker
--wrote lesson plans for next week
--wrote a quiz for next week
--typed up said quiz
--planned for small group
--paid bills
--bought a wedding gift for two friends who got married a month ago
--bought groceries
--completed a take-home exam (which I absolutely nailed, by the way)
--planned to give back a friend her shoes
--began planning my dancing for next week

I think that's all, but you get the idea. Now I get to take a breath tomorrow, and then get started on some homework that's due sometime in the near future. Now, who wants to come visit me here in Bloomington, with all my luxurious free time?

That kind of week

It's been that kind of week...

I spent most of Thursday evening preparing a sheet of notes for my ODE (ordinary differential equations) exam on Friday, and just studying for the exam in general. I prepare for the exam fairly well, show up for the exam, and....wait. And wait. And after 20 minutes, we decide the professor is not showing up, and leave. Sure enough, about an hour later we get an email from the professor saying we now have a take-home exam due on Monday. So, instead of taking a test I don't want to take in a 50 minute class and getting it over with, I spend a lot of time reviewing, planning, and spend 20 minutes in class, and still have to worry about the test all weekend.

There better be some good dancing next week...

Only Me

So, I ask a girl on a date....and she says yes...and no.... Only I have such powerful gifts of social ineptitude. Basically, she said I get to take her on a date, but she isn't ready for any kind of relationship any time soon (which isn't the immediate goal, but may potentially become one). That sounds about right... :)

Pi

Here you go, bum--a good way to disturb your class...

http://keithschofield.com/pi/std.html

Parents are cool

My parents come down for the weekend to visit and chat some, as I think about my life and the direction God is taking it. It was nice to chat with them, and just hang out some (and watch a phenomenal ND-USC game). Plus, they finally got to come to my church. It caps off a weekend started by a fun night at Fountain Square, where almost everyone was there. Of course, Fountain Square was fun for another reason...involving a and a potential date...but maybe that's the topic for another blog.
As for now, I have to figure how to get focused and actually do some work, which is tough when you have stopped caring some about the classes you are taking. Plus, I still have the shoes of a friend (way too small for my feet), so maybe I can find a way to make a trip up to Gas City sometime soon...

Can I hear an "Amen!"?

Yankees 3
Angels 5

'Nuff said.

Patience and faith

So, I think God is trying to teach me some patience and some faith--not always easy things to learn. I want to know His plan for me, the direction to take my life in over the next few months, the next year, and so on. And I kind of want to know it now. But, that's not always how God works. I need to have the patience that, while constantly going to him and seeking his advice, I have the faith to know that He will guide me, even if I don't get the answer the first time I ask.

As a corollary to that, I may need to learn a little humility, too (apparently I'm a masochist). I can't be seeking God, trying to be closer to Him, for my benefit. I can't be doing it to make my life easier, to try to get a girl, anything like that. That's too me-centered. This is about God, giving Him glory and serving Him. The moment it becomes about me, the moment I start doing it for selfish reasons, is the moment I make it real hard to hear God.

So yeah, this is what I've been mulling over and been getting taught the past few days...this could be a bumpy ride.

*bawk*

What a great weekend! I got to spend Friday night listening to the Count Basie Orchestra. I got to spend Saturday with Elyssa, Caitlin, Dave and Tara at beautiful Lake Webster. It's days like that--when it's sunny, 75, and peaceful--that you are so very thankful that God is so creative and has such a sense of beauty. On the way home, the ladies got treated to a lovely serenade of chickens, "singing" such classics as In the Mood and Rainbow Connection. Sunday I got to spend more time with E and C, and then attend church with them. I got to see some clips of Caitlin playing basketball in HS, and even got a backrub from Elyssa at the end of church. What more can one ask for?

Anyway, today it's back into the daily grind of things--I have a homework assignment due tomorrow that I haven't started yet, so clearly posting a blog is the appropriate course of action. :)