I’m sorry I’m so late this week; the last few days have been
full of unfinished to-do lists, and I’m only just now catching up to what I
usually would have finished on Thursday. The weekend is finally here, though,
and with it a chance to get caught up and prepare for next week’s deadlines –
all from my cozy room with a cup of hot tea beside me and a scenic rainy day
out the window.
What happened to this week? Well, the first thing was my
commissioning physical, which required a trip to Portsmouth that took all of
Tuesday morning and some of the afternoon. You’ll be happy to hear that no red
flags came up, so as of now I shouldn’t need any waivers to join the Navy. It
was a long trip and ended up being a sort of scavenger hunt around the medical
facilities to collect all the right paperwork from the right people, but
everyone was very nice, although I’m still not used to having people twice my
age call me ‘ma’am’. Tuesday, though, is usually my day to study, since I have
fewer classes, so I lost a lot of time that I’m now having to pay back.
Then there was my problem set for logic, a class that is
definitely getting harder as it goes along. I actually enjoy problem solving
and proofs quite a bit when I’m not on a deadline, but they’re very frustrating
when you’re running out of time. It stands to reason that, if some object is
borne a certain relation by every object, then every object bears a relation to
some object, but you have no idea how difficult that is to prove, especially
when you’re short on sleep and have already been staring at these sorts of
things for three hours. (I wasn’t the only one having trouble, though; they
extended the deadline by two days because everyone needed more time.) So
Thursday evening, my other main study time of the week, was derailed by that
unexpected behemoth. I ended up turning it in Thursday evening and then
dreaming about it all night, including one episode where I somehow saved Batman
by finally writing the proof correctly…
This was probably due
to the fact that I decided to celebrate Halloween, and the end of my workout program,
by trying out a comic book for what is possibly the first time in my life. It’s
simpler with Kindle, though, because it will sequence the panels for you, so
you don’t have to worry about missing anything or figuring out what order to
read things in. I’m not hooked, but it’s not a bad way to wind down after
running to and fro all day.
The Halloween parties will start tonight, I suspect. Pfoho
had its own party last night because – drumroll – the strike is over, and our
dining halls are up and running again! Everything is back to normal, and normal
never tasted so good, although the strike did give me an excuse to go to IHOP
with a friend for lunch the other day, as well as causing Pfoho to host some
sort of food-centric events nearly every day to tide us through.
Christian Impact is still going well. I led a Bible Study on
Wednesday, and we had some good discussion. On Tuesday we experimented with
singing part of a song in Spanish for FUEL, and it looked like people enjoyed
it, so hopefully we can do more of that sort of thing in the future. Also at
FUEL, one of our leaders served as our speaker and led a guided reading which
helped me take a breath and calm down in the middle of all the craziness.
Last but not least, Autumn weather has finally arrived –
cold and rainy – and it’s time to ratchet up the winter apparel again. I’m
still holding my full winter coat and boots in reserve, though; I probably won’t
pull them out until it starts snowing, which should be a while yet. Well, I say
a while, but I’m still trying to process the fact that it’s already the end of
October. Happy Halloween, everyone, and good luck with your deadlines!
Pictures:
I did have lots of time to take pictures of fall scenery...
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