Catching Up

(I am sorry. There wasn't a Hamilton song title that fit for today.)

It's really hard to start something again once you have a break. Rugby was like that, still is, but this whole school thing? Even more.

The past few weeks have been odd. short. long. Unproductive, yes somehow busy. It has taken a LOT for me to even convince myself to do anything at all productive most days. I am still looking for a topic for my papers, and once again I have no clue what to say. My supervisor suggested something good but even with the limited reading I've done, it doesn't seem promising. So prayers for that, thanks.

I've had good days and bad days. I decided to wait until an especially good one before I wrote on my blog again. But now it's been long enough that I don't know what to say. Here are some highlights I guess?

Had a really great second beginner's rugby practice. Cat and Rocky came back, and practice is always super hard but super good when they are here. The new girls did SO well!! Way better than I did :P

I MAD SOUP I am so proud of myself and SO happy. I honestly hadn't realised just how much food effects me - not that I wasn't eating, I was eating, I promise, but I was eating sandwiches and cafeteria food. Which is basically how I ate all through JBU so really I don't know what's wrong with that? Whatever. Finally I decided that I can't have the exact same sandwich every night, so I went out and bought actually groceries including a vegetable! (it was an onion. baby steps.) And I got a few rescipies my mom had sent (I ended up combining 2-3 of them) and I made my own taco soup with my own taco seasoning! I cannot tell you how much joy it gave me to have something so good and warm that I made and that tastes even a little bit like home. And now I have leftovers! Enough for 4-5 meals probably. I am so happy.

So one of my lectures, the one that honestly should be the good one - the one that if I had heard a year ago that I would get to be in this class with these professors I would have been very excited - has turned out reallly.... really boring. It's on Aristotle's Ethics, and I am going to keep going because that's what I'm writing on, but I have to be honest, I kinda zone out in class, and I forget most of what is said because I don't know that I really follow it. It's probably me, not the prof, but I dunno.

My other class has only met once but it's REALLY good. It's on Perfect Being Theology (to you JBU friends who were in Thoe. Sem. - yes that means natural theology. Mostly Anselm. But don't worry. There's a week on Barth later.) And of all the 4 seminars I've been in so far, this one is the most engaging by far, even though it's not the most discussion based. The presenter is just good.

Let's see what else? Not much. I've gotten to meet up with some friends - played a game of catan and a game of civilization, which was really fun. Went to a birthday party where I met some cool people, little things like that. Surprised a few Americans by being American (3 different Americans (on 2 occasions), after speaking with me for a bit and telling me where they are from, have responded to the news that I am from Texas with "you're American?!"). Still listening to too much Hamilton. Trying to switch back to Mumford just to have something else.

It hasn't all been fun. I've actually been really down this week. Feeling lonely in a way that I can only describe as physical. It's not like I'm alone. I've met some friends and have spent several evenings with groups (too many! I need a few nights in by myself!) and I spend a LOT of time chatting online with my friends. But it's not the same you know? I miss you guys. A lot.

What else, what else? I did laundry? :p met some of the SCIO students. ummmm I made soup! did I say that? And... oh I've just remembered that I left my tea downstairs. Hmm. Don't worry, I haven't actualy made it yet - right now it's just a tea bag in a mug. I was gonna make it when I was done with soup but then I washed dishes and forgot to pour the hot water :P Anyway I should go get that. I hope y'all are having great weeks!

Thanks as always for reading even my most boring updates (with no pictures! What a sham!)
R

Praise God from whom all blessings flow, praise Him all creatures here below, praise Him above ye heavenly hosts, praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.