Hello blogosphere

Grad school has not done me any favors with regards to my blogging. And so, as I address my faithful readership of 4.3 (and probably dropping quickly), I just want you all to know... I take that back... it's a little presumptuous of me to use the word "all"... I just want you to know that I am still alive and well, surviving seminary, thriving, and busy.

Quick updates about me... the last month of semester, starting next week and going through the first or second week of May, is going to be insanely brutal. I am actually on top of most of the stuff and I believe I've put myself in a position to succeed. I am healthy, save for a very sore shoulder from overdoing it at the gym and a blister on my foot from running on the treadmill with a sock with a hole in it. Hence, the blister.

I have much that I wish to write about and I don't entirely have the time to deliver high-quality blogs at this point. All I can do is list a few teasers I have in the works, and I'll try to get to them when I have time... feel free to encourage, badger, bribe, or threaten me to compel me to further nurture this little blog here.

My parents got a new dog, a collie-lab mix named Tawny. My brother's bulldog Winston still occasionally comes home. This has been VERY interesting...

I helped my best friend from college move into their new home in the burbs a while ago. They are first time homeowners, and I can write many things about the moving experience...

The Cubs open their season Monday. If Alphonso Soriano continues to underachieve, I fully plan on referring to him this season as Alphonso Sori-excuse...

Looking for nice atmospheres to study, I've spent more time in Starbucks (even though I never drink coffee) the last month than I have in my entire life. The Starbucks culture yields some interesting and sometimes pitiable observations...

I got a new phone, still an entry-level one, but at least this one doesn't have an antenna...

Being a dedicated dungeon-dwelling weightlifter hobbiest, I'm hitting up the gym at my new school four times a week. But I lift sometimes with undergrads, and I have many reasons to laugh...

I just finished a video game where my character just destroyed all of the Greek gods on Mt. Olympus, and I'm still trying to figure out why I'm fascinated by this crap...

The Lord has taught me many things lately, particularly on issues of trusting Him in prayer, of forgiveness and reconciliation, of thankfulness and humility, and of not eating enough food to feed Wyoming whenever I'm at a buffet...

I'll get to these issues when I have the time. I'm sure it would be good stuff if I ever take them up. PEACE!!!