i really wish that my teachers would coordinate midterms and papers better. in the next week, i have 3 papers due as well as a quiz. what is up with that?

well… my thought is that i’ll do a comparison of st. patrick and st. martin of tours. i can compare their attitudes and how they reformed people. i couold also compare the way they spread the Gospel. st. martin actively destroyed pagan groves while st. patrick had a more synchritistic approach. i also found a cool poem about a guy and his kitty in how the irish saved civilization. 🙂

yay!!! jocelyn is updating again!!!

i’ll be gone from tomorrow afternoon until sunday afternoon at fall conference. yay!!! fall con is sooooooo fun. we hang out with stanford, santa clara, and csu monterey at a christian camp in the mountains. we sing, listen to talks, play ultimate frisbee, fellowship…

well… reading cahill and wishing i had the book on monday (!!!) so i could be writing my paper right now instead of mulling over whether to tweak my topic. shall i do patrick vs. augustine, st. martin of tours vs. patrick, the comparison between rome’s changes and ireland’s changes after receiving the gospel…

ok… got my teeth tightened this morning, went to class, went to lunch, talked with jon…

i don’t *want* to go to section. i’ve got my responses done for soc and depending on how i’m feeling at 3 when i have to leave. i’m exhausted since my cat kept waking me up and i also haven’t slept well lately. last night i *did* sleep well but i haven’t in previous nights. i know that this is no excuse for missing class so i’ll probably go. hopefully my face drains (sinuses) and my ears stop hurting before i have to go.

well… under the threat of being duck-taped to my bed if i went to section by three *BIG* guys, i stayed in to do reading. soc section does little to nothing for me anyway. i did get a lot of art history reading done. i think i’ll be ok for the midterm tomorrow.

attn: ups. if my book does not arrive tomorrow by noon, i will forever boycott your company.

we had a *little* windstorm last night with winds that made the trees dance and even dipped one into the roof of one of my college fellowship leaders before it smashed their deck and smashed into pieces. the winds aren’t bad now but it was a kind of psalm 29 storm without rain. we made due at the house of some other people and it was an extremely enjoyable afternoon. i got to know esther and ryann a lot better and strangely enough, even ended up singing parts of handel’s “messiah” with ryann in comparison to the soul version that we were listening to on the stereo.

ok… ups had better get my copy of “how the irish saved civilization” here soon or heads will roll!!!

noe has a new layout. go see it. do it now.

i’m starting to realize that narratives are a good thing. i got my history quiz back and i got 15/20 which is a “good” by santa cruz standards. (“excellent” was 19 or 20.) my test score wasn’t wholly based on spitting out dates and facts — there is an amount of subjectivity in it. my response would have been considered a “4” by some ta’s and a “3.5” or “3” by others.

my midterm is done and turned in. i am a happy jen. i’m listening to loreena mckennitt right now since i’m in a sort of dreamy mood. i know that a lot of her stuff does draw on pagan sources but a lot of it is also christian. i just finished listening to “book of secrets” and i’m now listening to “the visit”. i love “between the shadows” because it has such an eastern sound. krystal pointed out something in the entry above. loreena’s music is based on a lot of celtic influences which doesn’t necessarily make them all pagan. i know this and i’m sorry if this got miscommunicated. i’ve been under attack by other christians for liking her music and so i wanted to qualify what i said. she is *definitely* one of my favorite artists and one of the most creative ones as well.