Highlights: There was a pretty wicked storm last week, I went to a new church on Sunday and loved it, have been keeping up well with school, and am trying not to lose it at the lab.
Current mood: blah
Details: Last week Davis was hit by a serious storm system. We got a few inches of rain in 24 hours, all blown in sideways from 15-30 miles an hour. It was incredible, and impossible to stay dry. My waterproof jacket, though, lived up to it's function. I was only soaked from mid-thigh down.
I finally went to Midtown Friends on Sunday and I immediately felt at home. The church meets in a small office space, but has been set up to feel like a living room. The music is led by a single guitarist, and there are elements of art, discussion, scripture reading and teaching woven into each service. On the fourth Sunday of the month they "put feet on the gospel" and do something service-oriented. This Sunday we'll be making packages of food and some will go out on the streets to pass them out, and some will stay behind and pray or make more packages. I also found out that Midtown Friends is a church plant of a Quaker church in Sacramento.
I am 3 for 3 A's on weekly tests in Greek, and the midterm is this Friday. I am also getting a take-home midterm on Thursday in Second Language Acquisition, so this will be a busy weekend.
I am still getting used to the way things work in the lab. Evidently, tasks are not presented clearly the first time, and very rarely is everyone on the same page. This has been the source of more frustration than I care to tolerate, but all I can do now is realize that I should ask a LOT of questions up-front. Tasks are presented like country roads with three or four forks. You don't know until you get to the town a few miles down whether or not you took the right fork. This past week, I have taken one wrong fork and one right fork. Needless to say, my confidence is a little shaken. I like to "have it all together" and am still trying to be okay with it when it is not so. This is a huge reason why I need a church that feels like home. I need a place to rejuvinate lest I be sucked in by the vaccum of academic disorientation n'er to return to the threshold of sanity.
