Last Week's Happenings

With having the chicken pox for awhile, one might assume I would get behind on school work. I kept up a little with Humanities, but nonetheless I spent 14+ hours a day catching up last week, and the reason there haven't been any recent blog posts.
I was up way past the next day most nights, but Thursday night surpassed them all...

Hopefully Elsie doesn't mind us posting a picture of her in her (gasp!) long johns. We thought it was hilarious how she fell asleep with her feet outside the crib. :-)

Yes, Thursday night was interesting. I had the last 4 books of Augustine's confessions to read by the next day, which was about 200+ pages. With 2 minutes of deep theological discourse per page, it was a looong time. I was too tired to concentrate much more at 5:30 am, and realized, much to my disgust, that I would have to go to bed. *sigh*

Haven't you always wondered what I look like when I haven't had a full 7 hours of sleep for a week? :-)

I came to the conclusion that Augustine was too sinful because he had WAY too many confessions. (NOTE: This is not at all correct theology, but rather expresses my annoyance at the length of the book. In fact, Augustine is a great example of thoroughly examining himself and he's very humble when he's confessing. The last three chapters are actually a confession of faith (not unlike the Westminster confession), not a confession of sins, and a discourse on Creation, which is a favorite subject of mine. :-) )

Since I never had a reminiscing birthday post, and to prove that I didn't look terrible all day, here is a picture Emma took of me on Thursday. In black and white it's my new favorite picture of myself.