The person I needed to reach at the synod office emailed me last night. He is sending my paperwork to me and the congregational packet to Christ. I’ve been waiting for this for the last two months, so I’m pretty happy. If Pastor Tom would call me, it would be really good since I need to update him on what is going on. The delay was due to the new office staff at the synod office. (The bishop came in after his narrow re-election and fired his office staff. That’s all I’m allowed to say.)

The reason that getting this paperwork is so important is that I need it for my switch of degree programs at Trinity and for an admissions decision, should I decide to transfer to Luther. (I’ll explain my Luther fascination in my next entry.) Jon did his whole process over the period of a year (much of which was out of town) — I think I can probably get this done by March??? This includes all the psych testing and interviews. I need to schedule the psych testing ASAP because they generally have a waiting list for that.

My admissions deadline for Luther is June and for Trinity, I need to get my petition into the Academic Affairs Commitee by May. I think that as long as I’m conscious of my deadlines, I’ll make it.

All of this also is increasing my nerves because my synod is not known for being especially gracious to M.Div candidates. (I believe the current saying is that “Not even Jesus gets endorsed”.) I don’t want to be grilled on the fact that I’ve gone through a year at Trinity already and am just *NOW* starting the M.Div process. I know the people on the committee and one of the people has seen me completely fall apart. How do I know that he’s not going to make my life a living hell?

Still… I’m getting the paperwork and I can work on it in the office next week.