Working on the Weekend

It's funny; when my friend Amanda posts on Blogger, she always starts it off by greeting her journal as if it were a real person. I'll read many of her posts, and the majority of them begin with something like "Hi, Journal!" "Hello, dear Journal!" and such. I used to do that very same thing in my written journal (which I still keep up to this day), having gotten most of my inspiration from Beverly Cleary's award-winning children's book Dear Mr. Henshaw. In it, Leigh Botts starts up his own diary by pretending he's writing to his favorite author. He says that it makes it easier for him to express his thoughts and feelings by acting like he's sharing them with someone rather than just putting them down on a piece of paper. As the book went on, he grew out of that and began to write them down for his own pleasure. I suppose I did as well. Of course, if that approach works for Amanda, that's great; I'm not at all saying there's anything wrong about it. It just makes me smile and reflect when I read one of her greetings.

And how in the world did I go off into ramble mode on this? Ahem...

Anyway, today was a decent day. Nothing too important happened in classes, but from the looks of it, I'm going to be staying up here at Furman this weekend. I've got some research to do in the library on a media project for Education 20, but I'll take a crack at that tomorrow. I'm giving myself the rest of today off to relax just a little bit. It's been a long week of activities outside of class, but the good thing is, I'm making progress early and steadily. I only need one last afternoon at Taylors before I'll have all 15 required hours of observation for my class's field experience grade. I still have a ways to go before I get 25 hours of Theatre observation, but I'm sure I can do it.

The next few weeks will be tedious as my focus shifts closer to actual classroom business. Two tests coming up, one in Theatre and one in Education. As well as putting together my Media Project and organizing my notes from Theatre rehearsals. I can hardly believe winter term is halfway over already. There's still so much to be done, but not a lot of time left to do it in. At least winter's back, and there's a chance for ice and snow tomorrow. Yay! :)

Song of the Day: Rebecca St. James - "Reborn"

Quote of the Day (Double Bonus):
"A syllabus wouldn't be a syllabus if the professor always followed it." - David

Dr. Peyrouse: "Oh ****, can't I just lecture you without you asking questions all the time?"
David: "Nope." :)

Verse of the Day: "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." - Romans 12:20-21