Monday, September 01, 2003

Sept. 1 Today is Labor Day, so in recognition, this fine university has decided to make us labor.  Well, a little bit anyway  Yes, it's the first day of class here.  If I haven't relayed my dream schedule to you yet, let me reiterate:  I have 5 classes, 15 hours, no class before 1 PM all week, no class on Friday at all, classes on each day are 15 minutes apart and in the same building (no small feat at this campus).  Frankly, I think I might have the most perfect schedule ever devised.  I got a flyer for the Intervarsity Bible study here in Wilkie.  I may go, over to the Dark Side.  My reasoning is forthcoming at some point.  10:28:35 AM    comment [] Blown by the wind, this way and that If I ever intended my blog to be a place where I could control how much the audience sees and hoodwink them into believing me a more idealized and complete person, well, I haven't executed that very well.  I suppose when all you are is a carnal thinker, even the internet can't save you.  Oh, for once I'm not trying to induce pity out of my readers, not this time.  I know by now what I ought to be but it's so much easier to lament the chasm than to build a bridge over it.  Building me up; I've had a number of great men influence me past and present, and so little of it has sunk in.  Maybe I'm cursed by my own transparency. 1:26:55 AM    comment [] Quote of the Week (or so) "Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." -Mother Teresa 1:18:16 AM    comment [] Admonition I visited here for the first time Saturday night, a small miracle that I even found the place considering I've almost never gone into town alone, (though it's really not at all complicated, just a typical gridded downtown, I just get lost on my way in more ways than one.)  The act that night was a blues-influenced guitar/vox and bass set; guitar player was mediocre at best, but the songs themselves were more than tolerable.  I bumped into a former student I used to know from a couple of years back, and he gave me some advice concerning journalism:  "Be really good," he said, " because that was my degree and I couldn't find anything when I got out."  Not really confidence-inspiring, but worthwhile nonetheless.  1:13:46 AM    comment []

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