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I’m going out of town this weekend on a prayer retreat. Before I leave I’ve got to post up my MLB predictions.
National League
East: Atlanta Braves
Central: St. Louis Cardinals
West: Los Angeles Dodgers
Wild Card: New York Mets
American League
East: New York Yankees
Central: Chicago White Sox
West: Oakland Athletics
Wild Card: Cleveland Indians
Quote of the Day: “Okay, so on the board you see morbidly obese Jesus A and B.” — Nicole Kelley, in an attempt to explain the differences in beliefs between Nestorius and Cyril (see diagrams below)
I looked at the date of my last post and I’m just now starting to realize how much happened since then. Hopefully I can do it justice.
But before I launch into all of that let me first say this: my sister has gotten into two schools already! Woo hoo! Auburn and Texas have both recognized greatness. I’ll continue to keep you posted on this. I’m really excited to see where she ends up (as I’m sure you all are).
Since that last post I have taken five tests and I am about to take a sixth. My finals week started early. Last week I had an oral test in Spanish and finals in Career Development, Risk Management and After The New Testament. This past Tuesday I took a written Spanish test and this afternoon I’ll be taking a final in Speech. Then I’ll be done. It’ll be t-minus one semester and counting.
Quote of the Day: “Men and women have nothing in common. Even in sex. Women are crock pots and men are microwaves.” — Mark Zeigler, professor of my Speech class, while talking about the communication process
I probably shouldn’t even be typing this entry, since I have a ton of work to do today and not nearly enough time in which to do it. But it’s been such a long time since I’ve posted that I figured it was worth a possible dip in my grades. You see, next week I have a total of five tests: two on Monday, one on Tuesday, and two on Thursday. It’s just not going to be a fun week, hands down.
I have become that guy who consistently updates a mere three times each month. How the mighty have fallen. So what’s been happening?
A week ago Monday I gave a speech in my speech class that, I learned today, I got an A on. It had to be an informative speech, so I chose “How to be an RSO President” as my topic. I barely prepared and faked it pretty well. The whole thing was recorded and put on a mini DVD. If you all want (and by ‘you all’ I mean ‘both of you’) I could put that video up on my site. It’s not exciting, but hey, new site content is new site content.
Quote of the Day #1: “He was going off like a frog in a sock.” — Paul Colman, who was the emcee on the Soul Fest main stage, on more than one occasion said this to describe some of the better performers
Quote of the Day #2: “Substitution!” — Stephen Mason, guitarist and singer for Jars of Clay, after an air horn was sounded off in the audience, prompting Dan Haseltine to run off stage and for Paul Colman to take his place
Quote of the Day #3: “After that altar call a minute ago I would have thought all the Yankee fans would have left.” — Dan Haseltine, lead singer of Jars of Clay, who was referring to an altar call that had asked its receivers to go to a nearby tent, after getting a mixed reaction when stating that their tour drummer was a diehard Red Sox fan
The worship team meeting this past Sunday went very well. Four of the seven people interested showed up, and I’ve since been able to talk to the other three. I’m excited about the talents that they all have and I can’t wait to hear us all together. Only a few short months away!
So I’ve taken 1.5 out of 5 final exams as of right now. What? Well my Organizational behavior exam is split up over two days. I take the other half tomorrow (open notes, cakewalk). This morning I took my Spanish oral exam. I conjugated a couple of verbs incorrectly and I completely forgot the verb tomar (the guy needed to take some aspirin, what can I say). Friday I have an exam in Christian Tradition which technically is optional. If I choose not to take it my grade overall will be a B. But I think I can pull up my grade by taking it so I’m going for it. Next week, the real exam week, I’ll have tests on Wednesday (3 PM - 5 PM, Spanish written) and Thursday (7:30 AM - 9:30 AM, Religion & Science). I usually get pretty nervous about this time of year. So much is riding on a single test of each class. But this semester a combination of confidence, cockiness, and good grades has taken all the pain out of the process.
Okay, so it’s been about elevendy billion years since I last updated. And it’s a day before the first day of the baseball season, which means I have to put my picks in now. So here they are.
Quote of the Day: “Hamburgers are in bed with too much ambiguity.” — The result of my Organizational Behavior class playing a game of telephone to illustrate how information is lost in an all-channels communication network. The original message was, “Rumors arise when issues are important to us, ambiguous and arouse anxiety.”
I’ve got a long post for you today. I’ve had a lot going on the past few days, but first I want to give a little recap on Reconciliation Week like I promised.
Reconciliation Week ended on Saturday. To clue you in to what it’s all about, every year here at FSU for the past five years now we’ve had this thing called Resurrection Week. The past four years it’s been during Holy Week (the week before Easter) and it’s been a time for all the various campus ministries to come together, to be united.
Quote of the Day: “Yeah, you can be both. We call them bipolar.” — Professor Jason Stoner, my Organizational Behavior professor, as to whether someone can have both a Type A and Type B personality
I’m sick of school right now. Which is odd because in reality I should only be sick of one class: Religion & Science. We had another pop quiz in there yesterday. I did better than last time, but that’s not saying a whole lot. But that class is bringing down my attitude across the board. And there’s no reason for it. In all three of my other classes I’m currently pulling an A (albeit with only a few grades). It sounds strange, but I can’t wait for my first test in there. It’ll pull up my grade (hopefully) and these quizzes won’t feel so important.
