Long Overdue Update
This has been a rather long week for me. That statement in itself is rather strange as the week has only had 4 real 'days' to it, with the inclusion of Memorial Day at its beginning. I suppose the length of the week is somewhat caused by the anxiety and stresses of the weekend prior. I'm not really sure what exactly would have prompted such things, as far as I can remember the weekend prior was rather enjoyable. Many trips to various places with Sarah and Theresa were very enjoyable. We ordered Pizza a bunch, watched a bunch of scrubs season 5. Hanging out and joking about a number of different things, eating Ice Cream at Coldstone. Enjoying dinner at different locations. It was a good time.
Theresa was supposed to leave St. Paul for her period of Clinical Pastoral Education which I think she's doing somewhere in Nebraska. Since Sarah and I really don't have any other person up here, yet, with whom we hang out with on a regular basis, I was rather anxious about everything. Although such anxiety would never be said. I'm not the type of guy to run around going omg i'mma miss you. Anyway, on Wednesday morning Theresa was supposed to leave for CPE. So, Tuesday after I went to work from 9-5 (I feel all sorts of Dolly Parton), we went out to eat and then went to the Mall of America to shopping and ice cream and such. Somewhere in the course of things Theresa noticed she was in a great heap of pain. Once we got back to the apartment, Sarah and I helped her move various things out of her place and into ours or into her car. In the process I acquired (albeit temporarily) two bookshelves, so I'm pretty psyched about that. Once all the moving was done, Theresa called her father and asked if it would be ok if she head to the emergency room. She is still on his insurance, which I'm rather befuddled about as she's in grad. school. But anyway, he said es. So at midnight, as Sarah went to sleep, Theresa and I went to the ER. The ER was ... a strange thing. Theresa and I got there and did the lovely task of filling out paper and waiting forever. Eventually she was called back for examination and what not. I stayed in the waiting room ... and stayed ... and stayed ... waiting .... waiting ... waiting ... and waiting. 4 hours later, I went to go find her, as I was rather worried. Shortly after finding her in some back room, the doctor returned with her prescriptions and we headed to a 24-hr CVS. We got the prescriptions filled and headed back to Luther's Apartments.
The next day, I called in to work since I had all of 2 hours of sleep. I slept a lot and organized a lot of my school papers and various statements and bills and things. The office is still a dump, but I hope to remedy that tomorrow. Theresa left to head to Nebraska however she couldn't fit everything in her car. So she drove to Nebraska then drove back here to sleep on Wednesday night. Thursday I went to work again as I did on Friday as well.
I finally got registered for classes. I'm taking Ethics (starting Tuesday) and Greek in July. I'm pretty psyched about ethics, and scared shitless about Greek. I think it's one of those classes that may make or break my Seminary 'career' as it were. I purchased textbooks for both courses, the greek ones were phenomenally expensive. I've also recently gotten a DVD burner, so It's been a period of burning off the excess dvd images I was saving. Soon I shall be burning off pumpkins shows. I need to listen to a ton of them and figure out how to best determine what to keep in 'rotation' and what to sell/trade off to the nerds of the world. Do I really need the archived concerts of a 10+ year career? Their newer stuff is ok I suppose, I like the recent concert in Paris I downloaded. So ... it should be an interesting period of 'keep it - throw it'.
Visitors will be coming soon. Evan, Sarah's mom and dad, my mom and dad and grandma, will all be heading up here. I need to come up with a list of options and details for those visit times so we can easily decide what's on the agenda and what's just fooey. I also need to figure out what range in the summer we're free for visitors so I can send that off to Andy. Lots of things, lots of things.
The past couple days have been interesting. We went to a walmart out in Stillwater and to the nearby Lane Bryant. Not really a lot to see there, but I took some pictures of various things while Sarah shopped. Sarah and I went to St. Paul to see the night-lighting of the cathedral there. Today we went yard-saleing and got a bunch of knicknacks. Then we returned to the cathedral to go inside and look around. I've been taking a buttton of pictures on my pathetic digital camera. I like to do that, but the pictures always come out blah. Hopefully some of the latest big batch are ok. I'm going to be uploading around 100 more to my deviantArt account and will be sure to hilight my personal favorites here.
As for ending the Spring Semester ... much anxiety was felt, as I expect a lot of myself. However, over the past week ... I have been getting papers back, comments from professors, and final grades. It's been very heart-warming. I feel kinda lame, confessing that I have a lot of emotional commitment in my own 'professional' work, but there it is.
I suppose that's all for now. I'm about to post (backdated) some papers from this semester, and then I'll summarize my grade-receiving glee. But all's well that ends. Tomorrow looks like it will contain much reading, cleaning, and organizing. Oh well, such is life.
Theresa was supposed to leave St. Paul for her period of Clinical Pastoral Education which I think she's doing somewhere in Nebraska. Since Sarah and I really don't have any other person up here, yet, with whom we hang out with on a regular basis, I was rather anxious about everything. Although such anxiety would never be said. I'm not the type of guy to run around going omg i'mma miss you. Anyway, on Wednesday morning Theresa was supposed to leave for CPE. So, Tuesday after I went to work from 9-5 (I feel all sorts of Dolly Parton), we went out to eat and then went to the Mall of America to shopping and ice cream and such. Somewhere in the course of things Theresa noticed she was in a great heap of pain. Once we got back to the apartment, Sarah and I helped her move various things out of her place and into ours or into her car. In the process I acquired (albeit temporarily) two bookshelves, so I'm pretty psyched about that. Once all the moving was done, Theresa called her father and asked if it would be ok if she head to the emergency room. She is still on his insurance, which I'm rather befuddled about as she's in grad. school. But anyway, he said es. So at midnight, as Sarah went to sleep, Theresa and I went to the ER. The ER was ... a strange thing. Theresa and I got there and did the lovely task of filling out paper and waiting forever. Eventually she was called back for examination and what not. I stayed in the waiting room ... and stayed ... and stayed ... waiting .... waiting ... waiting ... and waiting. 4 hours later, I went to go find her, as I was rather worried. Shortly after finding her in some back room, the doctor returned with her prescriptions and we headed to a 24-hr CVS. We got the prescriptions filled and headed back to Luther's Apartments.
The next day, I called in to work since I had all of 2 hours of sleep. I slept a lot and organized a lot of my school papers and various statements and bills and things. The office is still a dump, but I hope to remedy that tomorrow. Theresa left to head to Nebraska however she couldn't fit everything in her car. So she drove to Nebraska then drove back here to sleep on Wednesday night. Thursday I went to work again as I did on Friday as well.
I finally got registered for classes. I'm taking Ethics (starting Tuesday) and Greek in July. I'm pretty psyched about ethics, and scared shitless about Greek. I think it's one of those classes that may make or break my Seminary 'career' as it were. I purchased textbooks for both courses, the greek ones were phenomenally expensive. I've also recently gotten a DVD burner, so It's been a period of burning off the excess dvd images I was saving. Soon I shall be burning off pumpkins shows. I need to listen to a ton of them and figure out how to best determine what to keep in 'rotation' and what to sell/trade off to the nerds of the world. Do I really need the archived concerts of a 10+ year career? Their newer stuff is ok I suppose, I like the recent concert in Paris I downloaded. So ... it should be an interesting period of 'keep it - throw it'.
Visitors will be coming soon. Evan, Sarah's mom and dad, my mom and dad and grandma, will all be heading up here. I need to come up with a list of options and details for those visit times so we can easily decide what's on the agenda and what's just fooey. I also need to figure out what range in the summer we're free for visitors so I can send that off to Andy. Lots of things, lots of things.
The past couple days have been interesting. We went to a walmart out in Stillwater and to the nearby Lane Bryant. Not really a lot to see there, but I took some pictures of various things while Sarah shopped. Sarah and I went to St. Paul to see the night-lighting of the cathedral there. Today we went yard-saleing and got a bunch of knicknacks. Then we returned to the cathedral to go inside and look around. I've been taking a buttton of pictures on my pathetic digital camera. I like to do that, but the pictures always come out blah. Hopefully some of the latest big batch are ok. I'm going to be uploading around 100 more to my deviantArt account and will be sure to hilight my personal favorites here.
As for ending the Spring Semester ... much anxiety was felt, as I expect a lot of myself. However, over the past week ... I have been getting papers back, comments from professors, and final grades. It's been very heart-warming. I feel kinda lame, confessing that I have a lot of emotional commitment in my own 'professional' work, but there it is.
I suppose that's all for now. I'm about to post (backdated) some papers from this semester, and then I'll summarize my grade-receiving glee. But all's well that ends. Tomorrow looks like it will contain much reading, cleaning, and organizing. Oh well, such is life.