I’m sorry that it’s been so long since I’ve posted anything. I’m turning into “that guy” who has a blog but does nothing with it. I’ll do what I can to correct that.
Anyway, I’ve got to admit that the last few days have been very good. I am really liking my Spanish class. Since I’ve taken Spanish before, and because it uses our alphabet, it will be much easier at first than Greek would have been. I can’t say that I like the whole 9:05 AM start time, or the fact that it’s my only class on Friday, but on the plus side I do like my professor. He reminds me a lot of a good high school teacher, which sometimes I miss.
I had to rearrange my schedule to avoid taking a class at 8 AM, so I had to switch sections in my Financial Markets class. So now I’m taking that class at 11 AM with (guess who?) Brian, one of my roommates from Italy. I’ve got to say that I think that’s pretty cool. With all the thousands of people on campus it could have been easy for me to never have a class with anyone from that trip, and even easier for me to not have a class with one of the two other guys (Paulo graduated).
I’ve still only seen two people from the program: Brian and Jill. I’ve talked to Jessica, but everyone else is hiding. Or maybe I’m not looking in the right places.
Continue reading ‘A Conceited Leader’
Quote of the Day: “The first law of economics is scarcity. The first law of politics is to ignore the first law of economics.” — Dr. James Gwartney, my legally blind microeconomics professor, on the upcoming election
So here is the odyssey that is my stupidity. I’ve been thinking over the past few weeks that it might be smart of me to try to double major. Why? Well, I’m a Religion major, and I wasn’t really sure what kind of job market that would provide for me. I want to work full time in the ministry, but I also want to be able to put food on the table. I was already a Business minor, and considered becoming a Business major.
Today I decided to put my plan into action. Having already deciding that Greek was too hard I dropped it and added College Algebra and Computer Literacy for Business majors (I already took the one for non-majors, but heck, this is a whole new major we’re talking about). I already had a language requirement met with Micro, Macro, and Stats, so I was good there. I then found out that I could CLEP out of College Algebra and jump right into Precalc for Business majors. So I began to study my brains out this afternoon for that test. You see, the drop/add period ends Thursday at midnight, so I’d have to take the CLEP test on Thursday and add the class after passing the test (assuming I passed it). Keep in mind this all occured in one day!
Continue reading ‘The Odyssey Of My Stupidity’
I’m in the middle of my second day of classes as we speak. So far I’ve been two Greek twice, Microeconomics once, and a beginning Finance class.
I am in way over my head in Greek. You have no idea. My professor had us fill out cards on the first day, and one of the things she asked for was our previous foreign language experience. Today she said that she’s happy to see that most people have taken either Latin or German, because that will be very helpful. 
I haven’t taken either of those, and I haven’t taken any foreign language since my freshmen year of high school (Spanish). On top of all this, I found out that if you take Statistics, Microeconomics, and Macroeconomics that that will fulfill your language requirement. I took AP Stats in high school, took Macro last spring, and I’m taking Micro this semester. I’m going to see my adviser tomorrow to make sure that my Stats will be good enough (got a 3 on the AP test; hope that’s high enough). As much as I want to take Greek, I want to have a good GPA too. And we’re not learning New Testament Greek either; it’s classical Greek (a good 300 years newer). I’m not sure what I’m going to do yet. I still need to pray about it, but if it were entirely up to me I wouldn’t be in that class.
In about an hour I’ll be going to my Christian Apologist class. I have high hopes for this class. I’ll let you know how it goes when I get back today.
So it’s been a long time since I’ve updated. That’s because it feels like my arm is about to fall off. Okay, so maybe it’s not that bad. But it is still pretty sore.
I have arrived in Florida! I’m back in good old Tallahassee. Monday was basically a travel day. I checked into Rogers Hall Room 423 without any trouble. The only bad thing about Monday happened at night. I didn’t have time to go to my storage locker before it closed for the day, so I didn’t have anything except for what I packed from Connecticut. Most importantly, I didn’t have any sheets or towels. Combined with the fact that every time I turned over onto my shoulder I thought I was going to die, it made for a very long, uncomfortable night.
Continue reading ‘I Am The One-Armed Man’
So barring anything terrible happening in the next few hours I should be on my way back to Florida. I got my flight changed for free because of all the mess caused from Hurricane Charley. I’m still not sure who’s picking me up at the airport though. Kyle told me he’d find someone and that he’d let me know while I’m in Atlanta. I just don’t like stuff like this to be left to the last second.
My arm still hurts, but it’s better. I still can’t move it too much, but I guess that’s to be expected. As for my brain, well no one knows why I have seizures to begin with, so I really couldn’t tell you. I’m back on my meds, so I guess I’m good to go.
Continue reading ‘Let’s Try This Again’
So here’s the latest news. I’ll be leaving for Tallahassee on Monday morning. At this point it has more to do with Hurricane Charley than my health. My dilantin (seizure meds) dosage is now set at 400 mg (up from 350 mg when I went off it in February). To help my shoulder heal I have to go through six weeks of physical therapy when I get down to Florida. To top it all off I can’t drive for three months.
So no, I’m not in a really good mood at the moment.
If you had asked me Wednesday morning what today’s post would be about I would have told you “my trip to the Bronx Zoo and my first day back in Tallahassee.” Well, the latter won’t be happening for a few more days and the former doesn’t seem all that important anymore.
You see, last night I had a seizure. I was sitting in a rocking chair when I had it, so I rocked right out of my chair, falling to the ground. The impact caused me to dislocated my right shoulder and have a small fracture there. As you may know I used to take meds for seizures up until February of this year when my doctor deemed it safe for me to go off of them. Guess she was wrong. Now I’m back on them, and probably for the rest of my life.
Continue reading ‘One Giant Step Backward’
I had a pretty uneventful day. I started packing up my stuff. I leave for Tallahassee on Thursday morning. I started getting mixed feelings today for the first time. I don’t really want classes to start up again because I just got out of them six weeks ago. I like not having to do much work.
My family got high speed internet today. It figures. A couple days before I leave they improve the computer dramatically. Oh well. It did mean that I could upload all my photos from Europe. Just click on the link marked Photos at the top of the page to see them. I posted up 314 photos in all today. Tomorrow I’m going to try to get the photos from U.M. Army and Soul Fest uploaded.
Today I spent the whole day in Rhode Island. My family and I went to Block Island, which is a little hole-in-the-wall town with some pretty scenery and nice hiking. We saw an old lighthouse that provided a great view of the Atlantic. It was one of those day trips my mom has been trying to plan all summer. I had a pretty good time. I guess it didn’t amaze me, mostly because of where else I’ve been this summer, but it was still a fun day. I haven’t been able to spend much time with my dad, so it was cool to be able to spend a day with him.
I got an email from Joel Helms today with a link in it. It’s to his mission’s website. He’s a full-time missionary in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The address for the page is http://www.angelfire.com/ar3/argentineadventure/. I’ve also added it to the links menu to the left. I really miss Joel. For those who don’t know, he discipled me for about nine months while at FSU. He went with me to the Miami STP and Cuba mission trips that I went on last summer. He’s a stud; there’s no way around it.
It’s hard to believe, but four years ago today my family and I moved from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida up to Marlborough, Connecticut. Well, technically that’s incorrect. We moved to Manchester until September 1 when we closed on the house, but you get the idea. That was four years ago? Sometimes it seems like it was yesterday. Sometimes it seems like it was eons ago. I hated moving; funny how it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me. And not because Connecticut is some kind of paradise, far from it. But I learned how to change, which is something I did not know how to do at all. Moving in high school made going to college the easiest thing in the world. Getting a fresh start in Connecticut meant that I could get rid of all of the opinions made about me in the first two years of high school. All of a sudden I was a fresh face, and everyone wanted to know what I was all about. I had no idea that feeling could be so good. I thank God that He let me have a couple of years in the spotlight. Now it seems like that’s all he has for me at FSU (not to sound arrogant, just grateful). I’ve been truly blessed these past four years, and it all started with getting out of my comfort zone of PBG.
