Catching Up

Wow, it has been a while since the last post. It was a busy semester that is now done and I am officially 2/3 of the way done with seminary. I am so ready to get back to doing work everyday. I have learned that I am better off doing things than talking about them. At least next semester I get to do Clinical Pastoral Education at a local hospital and that should be a good balance to the talking of the classes. A weird thing happened this semester however. It was my busiest and most difficult semester but I got the best grades so far. I guess that was the submarine training in me coming out as I played up to the competition.

In other things, I am now officially a candidate for ordination as my presbytery approved me last week. Now I just need to actually buckle down and study for the ordination exams coming up in August. If I pass those I am just some paperwork and interviews away from ordination. Oh yeah and I have to find a job, but the Navy paperwork shouldn't be too difficult. I get to head to Quantico at the end of the month for 6 weeks of training by working as a Chaplain U/I with a company of officer candidates at USMC OCS. I am extremely excited about that and actually know a few of the DI's heading there and my dad knows a few of the candidates heading up that way.

But before all that I get to spend time cheering on Georgia Tech at the ACC Baseball tourney that is here in Durham for the next five days. Plus, Duke made the tourney and is in the opposite group so I can cheer for them both. The fun all starts tomorrow at noon. I think we are heading to two games a day including each 8pm game for all 4 days. It is nice getting a 1/2 off discount because of being a student. It is nice to actually get a significant amount of relaxation time this summer that I didn't get last year.

Let It Snow

After freezing here in Durham for the last week, we might actually catch a break and enjoy some snow overnight. They are predicting from 2-5" for this area and I can't wait. Even if school doesn't get canceled, it doesn't matter. I just want to throw a few snowballs and see some snow finally. I lived in Hawaii for so long I have only seen substantial snow when driving across country or on ski slopes since I joined the Navy in 1996. I hear it snows during the winter, but have forgotten since my childhood. I think the last snow over 1" that I saw was in 2003 at Snowshoe and other than that it was in 1993 in Atlanta. So I say bring it.

Update 29 January

So I had serious camera issues but here are photos from last week.