This whole minister thing has once again proven to be a daunting task. I've been looking over all of the credentialing requirements (what the UUA wants me to be/know in order to claim me as a fellowshipped minister), and it's really something else. Their expectations are broad and specific at the same time, and I can't begin to get my head around ( Read more... )

I'd forgotten the reality that having craptons of homework leads to a general lack of social life. I just spent my weekend at home doing homework - except for the hour we went grocery shopping on Saturday and the three hours I spent at church baking cookies for a nursing home with the young adult group. At least I'm much better off at the start ( Read more... )

So, everyone's super excited about my return to seminary. I'm super excited (despite the homework that just keeps piling up) to be spending my time in a validating and nuturing environment (as opposed to my previous employment). I'm super excited that seminarians are just as interesting to be around up here as they were in Chicago. I'm super ( Read more... )

One week and one day post wisdom teeth extraction - update ( Read more... )

I took a fairly large amount of medicine before going to sleep last night to make sure that the pain that remains (not as bad as Friday, not easily ignored, either) wouldn't keep me up. I woke around midnight anyway, suddenly worried that today is the first day of classes this semester at my school. My first classes aren't until tomorrow, but ( Read more... )

You already know that I had my wisdom teeth out on Tuesday. It wasn't too bad then. It wasn't even terrible on Wednesday - I expected that things would be crappy. What I didn't expect is that I would still be in a fair amount of pain (even on the Vicodin) on Friday with no obvious signs of it going away anytime soon. I feel like crap and am so ( Read more... )

The most relevant thing going on in my life right now is that I'm in some pain. Wisdom-teeth removal pain, to be specific. I had my final three out on Tuesday, and I swear the pain's worse today than it was yesterday. This is why I decided to have this done 1) while I still have dental insurance, and 2) a week before classes actually start ( Read more... )

(Unrelated, but important - 3 days, 4 hours left of work ( Read more... )

Days of work left: 4.5 ( Read more... )

My EMT friend, who happens to live next door, not only came over to last night to play a new PS3 game with us (I think it's called Ultimate Alliance or something like that - a bunch of Marvel Superheroes working together in a 4-player cooperative game. I like cooperative games.), but also took a look at my finger earlier in the evening ( Read more... )