Ah, what a week!

Well, the two job situation hasn't killed me yet, but the pay isn't turning out to be what I'd hoped. Got an email from my buddy Dawson the other day, anouncing the much anticipated bachelor party for our friend Brian or "the Stepchild" as we like to call him. It won't be until March, around St. Patty's Day. Guess I've got time to save up money and get my affairs in order! Hedonism, pure hedonism, what won't we do? I've met the Stepchild's fiance; she's a nice girl, seems to compliment him well. By now she knows what she's getting into- Godspeed to them both! Another buddy getting married... yikes!

Almost finished with my research project for school. Ironically, my topic of research is job satisfaction. I'm waking up in about six hours to go clean toilets and vacuum floors, not much satisfaction to be had there. And the things one learns when cleaning a women's restroom... Oh well, it helps Sam out and he needs all the help he can get right now. There's some intrinsic fulfillment there.

I'm in the middle of a Biblical perspectives course at school. The book we're studying, besides the Bible, is a secular-leaning work meant to describe biblical accounts as literature. I don't care for it, but it has got my mind revisiting old thoughts and feelings I haven't faced in some time. More of that pesky "fear thing" that I hate about myself so much. I'd forgotten about how much I liked reading the Bible in the first place, even more so discussing it with other people. Turns my mind toward the work I used to do at the church when I was younger. Turns my mind toward Kentucky, where I probably should have gone to school instead of staying here. But I can't say that with any certainy either. There're people here who've made the stay worth while and Lessons learned that couldn't be taught anywhere else. I guess we'll know if this was the right thing to do soon enough. I took the ticket; I'm on the ride.