It is REALLY COLD OUTSIDE. And inside. Even more so than usual, and so the chorus of complaints is louder than ever. Like, seriously, when I checked the temp a couple hours ago it was 18 degrees with a wind chill of 3 degrees. High of 22 expected, low of somewhere between 2-5 degrees. And we're talking Fahrenheit, not Celsius!
And my Kit Kats have been frozen rock-solid. That's not quite so bad as stone-hard Snickers, or fossilized Reese's, but it's still not exactly enjoyable. (Welll...okay, it's chocolate, so obviously it's enjoyable. I just mean that it would've been a little better if it could warm up to maybe room-temperature a bit or something.)
Classes are going...taking everyone a while to get up to speed, it seems. Media Management and Planning(MMP) might go a little easier than we expected. (Note the might.) Somebody said before class Tuesday, as we were all frantically trying to prepare for a quiz over the syllabus, "Why does this feel like we're taking a final and it's only the second week of class?" Lecture was on the importance of proper product placement in advertising, pretty interesting and easy to grasp. Talked to this older guy who sits next to me named Ron for a while about photography after class let out.
Monday was a study-day, because of no classes scheduled for some reason because of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It really came at an odd time this year, because we started so late. We don't need a break after one week of school! Why couldn't it come in February or something instead?
Quiz in Comm/speech yesterday, which was somewhat nerve-wracking, and a short little report to whip up for tomorrow.
Latin is going pretty well, a little faster than we'd probably like, but it's all right. I was able to read(and understand!) what the extra-credit sentence said yesterday even before we'd begun dissecting it. (It was the Vulgate translation of Matthew 5:3, if you were wondering.) That was awesome.
Finally used some of the high school graduation gift certificate from GBC to Grace and Truth Books, it's only taken like nineteen months, haha. (Just wanted to make the best use of whatever I purchased, y'know?) And I still have half of it left! Got a book by Paul David Tripp called War of Words, a gospel-centered look at communication issues. It's fantastic, was studying a couple chapters last night because I couldn't sleep.
It was good to visit home for the weekend, lots of homework and cat-petting and video games, in about that order.
Super Bowl is next week...and then the Olympics. And I should hopefully get my braces off February 6. Besides the Daytona 500, those are all the highlights, most likely, from next month. Other than that it'll just be cold gray skies, rain, maybe a little snow, tests and group projects and mountains of homework and wild-eyed students close to snapping from stress and anxiety.
Songs of the Day this week: All weekend long I had the theme song from Friends running through my head. (But at least I figured out that opening guitar riff, which is like one of the songbites of the 90s.) And Brad Paisley on Tuesday; "Two People Fell in Love", "Letter To Me" and snippets from several others. "Jesus Paid It All" and "Be Thou My Vision" have often been running through my head here the last few weeks. This morning it was a handful of Eli songs.
Quote of the Week would go to Maria von Trapp(Julie Andrews' portrayal, not the actual lady) from The Sound of Music, from the "I Have Confidence" scene when she finally comes up to the gate of the von Trapp estate: "...Oh, help." (Still annoyed about that song getting cut from the Carrie Underwood play version...Side note, it seems like everyone is doing that play this semester; it's been about the only thing on my Facebook news feed this week.)
Trying to study today, in addition to just staying warm. And watched several episodes of Full House. Back to the textbooks I go....
(After studying a little more, I listened to two David Platt sermons on angels and demons and spiritual warfare. And as for the cold, my cousin Logan said the high temp in his slice of Illinois was 5 today, with a bunch of snow. Probably worse up along the Minnesota/Canada border, I'd have to ask Jessica about that, though.)
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