Almost a "Rising Middler"
We are closing in on the end of our junior year...um, that's not the "royal" we, that's we juniors of the class of 2009. Another week and a half of class, reading week, then finals on the 9th and 10th. I have finished and submitted my NT exegesis paper, my final Church History mini-paper that takes longer than a 10 page paper!, have my OT paper ready to print and hand in, and have only my philosohpy paper to struggle through. Ten pages. I don't know if I know 10 pages of "philosophy words." I have settled on comapring/contrasting Augustine and Kant on evil. At this point I think the answer to that would either be philosophy or church history! Just kidding.
Anyway, in a little over three weeks we shall be "rising" middlers. I just love the sound of it. It sounds like we are actually getting somewhere at last. Like maybe we actually know something. Like maybe there actually is a future and it includes priesthood. I am refusing to look ahead to the fall and the courses involved there...no, I am just going to concentrate on finishing these three weeks and being then a rising middler for the summer, as I slog my way through CPE at the hospital. But somehow being a rising middler makes that less of a bother.
I am looking forward to watching tv, although I know there isn't much of anything on it worth watching. I am looking forward to "reading for pleasure" and flipping lazily through magazines. I am even looking forward to cooking supper. The small and ordinary pleasures and chores in life when no papers are due, no tests must be studied for, and tomorrow will be just another day and not another round of classes. I mostly am looking forward to catching up with my friends who are not seminarians... those at home.
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