SO I figured I would sort've...outline what a typical cycle of seven days looks like for me. Mostly so I can reflect on where my time can be spent better. Let's start with Monday shall we?
Monday (in case you forgot): mean roll-out-of-bed time: 7 am. I have gotten up as early as 6 o'clock (that one first day of school...) and once at 6:30 when I was running. That one day...but I usually wind up ignoring my alarms until 7, sometimes 7:30. I take a shower, make some kind of breakfast, and either walk to school (If I wake up at 7 or earlier) or take an 8:04-8:16 bus (If I don't get up till 7:30 or later). I prefer having the time to walk and read my Bible and do other things in the morning. Optimally, Run. I hope to start that habit in the future...Anyway. Class starts at 8:30 and goes til 9:50 officially, but frequently gets out earlier depending on how much of a groove the class or Tony gets into looking at poetry. I almost always walk home immediately after class and get home at around 10:15. I clean, make lunch, do various internet things, and perhaps watch Fox news until noon or so. Then I usually try and get some homework done. I am alone until 2-3 when Matt, Lodrick, or Jake get back... Usually it's Matt first and Lodrick last. Lodrick is out alot. From here, depending on how interesting my roommates are being, there is some mixture of studying and goofing around with my new friends. at 7 is Core. The all guys small group for CCF based on your geographic position on campus. These guys are pretty legit. Pretty solid guys. All great and mostly eligible Christian bachelors. This usually ends at around 8:30. I watch the list bits of the MNF game, and at 9 o'clock the manly men of Birnam Wood set out for our intramural dodgeball game. We usually lose...and get home later than I'd like.
Tuesday: (Holy crap...this is gonna be long.) Tuesday's and Thursday's are highly variable before noon. I am sometimes still up at 7, and sometimes in bed til 10. Class doesn't start til noon in the Humanities building 25 minutes away. I wouldn't say there is a norm, but more often than not I'm at the library by 9 doing homework and frequently falling asleep on my text book. Intro to Language (eng 370) starts an noon. It's my favorite class probably. Perfect mixture of lecture, just...funness, and class interaction. The population of the class is pretty attractive in general as well. When class gets out at 1:50 I head to the Rec center to meet up with Matt, Matt, Jake, Jake, and Trey (no lies...that's the 6 man crew including me) to work out. Tuesdays are back and arms I think...but that's not been incredibly consistent. and I don't know half the terminology anyway. It's monkey see, monkey do, monkey feel sore in the morning for me. That's usually over by 3:30 and I go back to the locker room and try and look like I wasn't running for my life to class, in the Comm facility at 4 o'clock for Political theory. This class is mostly stirring lecture, which apparently isn't too stirring for most of the class. I'm (no joke) on the edge of my seat the majority of the time though. He's not the greatest lecture ever (he's not Dr. Toren *cough*kara*cough*) but he is really earnest. That class usually lets out at 5:50 with a 5 minute break at 5 o'clock or so. I walk back to Birnam Wood. A 15 minute leisurely stroll from south campus. Since it's Tuesday I haven't much to do after class. So if there is still studying to be done I do it, otherwise I'll spend my time picking through the fridge and catching up with everyone else's days. The last hour or so of the day is spent right here. Bed time is 10-11 still for class at 8:30 in the morning.
Wednesday: same deal as monday up until 1pm. It's the library and books from 10-1 and then at 1 I have my weekly 1 on 1 meeting with my Corfa (core facilitator) Joey. He's one of the leaders of my small group from Monday nights. We talk about our weeks, music, and Jesus. This goes until 2. I take the bus home usually from the Viking Union where we meet. It is during these 1 on 1 sessions that I had my first Chick-fil-a experience. I can't say it was anything special Dean...it wasn't bad. The waffle fries are good. But. Meh overall. 2-5:30 is pretty free. I do what studying needs to be done still and then we head off to Gospel Community at 6 (small group from Church devoted to creating...Gospel People). There is always some awesome food here. Free dinner. That is pretty awesome, and the people are just. Great. Inspiring, uplifting, encouraging, honest. Everything that I feel I'm not basically. It's refreshing. We drive home at 8ish. I blog and go to bed.
Thursday: Thursday feels like the laziest day of the week. It is a carbon copy of Tuesday until class is out at 5:50. Then it's showtime. I eat dinner and sit down to Jeopardy at 7:30, Community at 8 (which I was pleasantry surprised to discover everyone else thinks is hilarious), 30 Rock at 8:30, The Office at 9, and Outsourced at 9:30. Blog and bed comes next.
Friday: Is exactly the same as Monday, except instead of Core, there is CCF in Arntzen. And there's no dodgeball.
Saturday: I have spent the majority of Saturdays in the Library from 10-5ish. This is when I get into Zen mode. I read nearly the entirety of the Assistant on a Saturday. It's a shame the library closes at 6 on Friday and Saturday (but is open til Midnight all other nights?) We have established a sort of weekly game night that starts at 9 or 10 in Academic West with Laura and Aaron and friends. This is where I was introduced to the incredibly addictive game of Set. It's a pretty consistently fun time. Saturday is a pretty late night too usually (game night goes til midnight usually) which makes getting up for the 9:30 service (and the 45 minute walk) a real pain. Especially since I take the most time getting ready in the morning on Sundays.
Sunday: I get up usually closer to 8 to take a shower and get spiffy for Church. We leave the Amadeus project around 11 and are home before noon. I catch up on football, real and fantasy. I will spend a lot of time watching football on most Sundays. I am hoping it doesn't bother my amigos, who are less into the NFL than I am. Sundays are by far the least structured day. But I find my way back to bed at around 11 still.
I would like to see my week get more regular. But I guess we can save that for next time.
Elsewhere in my world:
I really want someone to take pictures of me. Just. deliberately for an hour or so. I don't really have any visual documentation of myself. There was a time (really not so long ago) when I thought any schmuck including myself could pick up a camera and snap away and get decent results. As long as the camera was decent. I no longer hold this to be true...as evidenced by my own failures. I dunno. I haven't had pictures taken of me for the sake of...my own vanity by an experienced hand since I have been in Washington. I want to nurture my vanity a little bit. That sounds evil. Maybe I'm not using the proper words...I've seen really plain people look magical with the proper picture. I haven't seen a good picture of me in quite some time. In my opinion at least. It'd be nice. Then at the same time...it's something I've really judged people for in the past. Not taking picture of themselves, but having pictures taken of themselves to puff them up. Photoshop is pretty magical too I guess...
My English class is really stinking for me right now. Tony makes it seem like Rocket Science, and I feel like a majority of people in that class are able to understand him in ways that I haven't been able to. I hope in the end it stretches me. That I bend but don't break. Maybe I...take something away from this that I didn't have before? Whatever terribly obscure thing that is. It baffles me that I've had such good results so far in what I've produced. I feel like I'm doing terribly. Like I'm missing the point.
As I'm writing these things I feel hesitant to bring up God in this because I have a lot. But I mean. He's flipping omni-everything right? Aren't you God? Yes. So I need to pray about this class then. God works in the world. He really does. He's not tied up in a little box in my brain, though I try to do that often times for some stupid reason. He is able to work in all areas of my life and all areas of the world. Ideally I'll let him. He could if he wanted to but he can't because he loves me and my identity and my free will by proxy. In that Share Jesus book Bill Faye gives this as the answer to the old question "Can God build a wall so strong he can't break it?" That wall of free will sort've is that. Anyway, I need to let God be God. Bigger than the boogie man.
Just looking outside you'd think it had been pouring. Everything is so wet. That's how I felt when I left class today. But it's just 99.9999 humidity. The water is just hanging in the air, without mass enough to be brought down to earth faster than a speck of dust. It's pretty gal darn depressing. Make up your mind Earth. I can't stand your indecision.
Nick arrives at 5:30ish today on a greyhound and I have no idea what we are going to do. I want to make spaghetti for dinner. But I don't want to ask Matt for more of his beef. SO I'm thinking of using some more of that sausage. Not sure how that will turn out. Not sure if I'm gonna take Nick to the CCF upstairs or downstairs. I want to do the one upstairs because it's just a better presentation. But how much does that really matter? Mostly because the speaker is actually there upstairs and downstairs it's just...skyped or w/e. Matt is leading downstairs though so that'd be a cool connection to make for myself ("Yeah, I know that guy. We're tight."). HA!
Planning on getting a start on our movie list after that. Matt wants to do the mask of Zorro or something...then I hope Jared's available to help me test out Nick's Halo skills. We'll see how far he's come...not sure what time he leaves on Saturday so I wanna stay up pretty late tonight. I think that's what Nick is used to anyway. My mean bedtime has been 11ish actually. Hardly later on the weekends either. Am I missing some part of this experience by going to bed so early? Not sure. Jake says that there is a sense of community in the dorms that isn't out here in Birnam Wood. Well. I can do without getting intimate with another 100 guys I think but who knows...maybe being so isolated is inhibiting my growth. I dunno though, I'm still amazed by how outgoing I have been to date. Baby steps.
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