That's what she said.

Well. I’ve been working on Church History on and off all day. I may not get any more done on that tonight. Tomorrow I’m gonna go hard from whenever I wake up (er, I’m gonna set an alarm, not that I ever sleep late anymore) until 5 or 6. *cries*

Today I also started arranging “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” for us to (hopefully) play at Orange UMC. We needed an Advent hymn. Voila. I did use a modification of the chorus of “Oh Come, All Ye Faithful” for the bridge, but oh well. :)

10 single-spaced pages is not OK. But I’m done. Time to reward myself by watching The Office, and then I get to shackle myself to Church History. :-/

I took my vitamins before I’d had enough to eat. :(

One of 3 questions on this take-home final is finito. I wrote WAY too much (4 single-spaced pages, all in an hour), so I’m gonna revisit my other 2 outlines to scale them back some.

I may not get much more done today, because Gary and I are going to see Phantom at DPAC at 2:00! Yayness. This is me trying to get Gary into musical theater—although, ironically, he’s seen Phantom live and I haven’t. Oh well, snazzy study break.

I’m thinking…depending on when I get home after practice and how I feel, I may try to knock out a second essay before I go to bed. At the latest, I’ll finish this stupid final early tomorrow morning and then move on to Church History. Baller.

Oh and plan youth group for Sunday. That too.

So this take-home final is one of these things where you can take your time studying and make a basic outline, but then there are 3 questions you have 3 hours to complete. I realized that if I can get focused, I could knock out the outlines tonight, so all I’d need would be a 3-hour block of time (or 3 1-hour blocks of time, more likely) to actually write the exam. That’s totally doable, and I feel a little better now about having time to study Church History, which is good because I don’t think I’ll be quite ready to meet my maker Monday morning.

I’ve hit a moment of paralysis regarding schoolwork. I just had one of those moments where it hit me just how much work I have to do in the next week and a half. I may be able to get something done in the form of paging through Mere Christianity to study for my take-home final, but I’m going to lunch in half an hour anyway. Pooh on finals.

I’m watching Colbert, and this talk of an alien Jesus is nonsense. Everyone who’s read Perelandra knows that the aliens on Venus resisted temptation and avoided the Fall.

Finals

School stuff for reading week and finals week:

1. CH 13 Pastoral Context Paper (due 12/1)
2. C. S. Lewis Take-Home Final (due 12/4)
3. CH 13 Final (12/7)
4. OT 11 Final (12/10)
5. Hebrew Final (12/11)

Work-type stuff for reading week and finals week:

1. Meeting @ ATUMC (12/1)
2. Getting paid to help Jaylynn w/ computer stuff (12/1)
3. Youth group: Dating 101 (12/6)
4. Meeting @ AUMC about website (12/8)
5. Feed My Sheep food ministry w/ ATUMC youth (12/12)

Fun stuff for reading week and finals week:

1. Lunch with Meghan (12/1)
2. Lunch with Jay (12/2)
3. PathWays reunion—dinner @ Torero’s (12/2)
4. Phantom of the Opera @ DPAC (12/3)
5. Party @ Amy’s (12/4)
6. Wesley Christmas Party (12/5)
7. Jacob’s Ladder gig (12/5)
8. General ridiculousness during finals…

In the meantime, I’m helping Gary get his Christmas CD out, working on album art for my CD, thinking about youth group for the spring semester, and trying to catch up with a few more Dukies before break. Life is busy but good.