Tuesday

Okay, so today was day one of finals week. I woke up in time to read a little Nietzche before our Recent Political Theory Final, and headed to the Ad building to meet Melanie and Cassidy for some more studying [like 3 hours or so last night at Java City wasn't enough...no...it wasn't...]. Then, I took the test - it was about an hour or so of my time, not bad I'd have to say. I got a little too excited about writing a John Rawls essay. As I was taking the test, I wondered if this was the last time I'd ever get to study philsophy. I've studied it quite a bit throughout my collegiate career [and in high school too...gotta love debate] and I've even taught an intro to political philsophy at debate camp. It kinda worried me, and I made a decision there and then [in the middle of writing about Burke's conservativism and what a jerk I think he was] to be more intentional about learning. I decided to make sure I read for an hour every day. And when I say read, I mean real books - classic literature or philosophy and such. So, today I started Dante's Commedia [The Divine Comedy]. It's such a good novella.

Layne and I had planned on going to get Subway for lunch today and then going to the zoo to visit Condi [my elephant] and then it got cold. Well, it got cold last night, but it wasn't supposed to LAST through today. Thus, the zoo has been put off for a day or two. There aren't many more days besides that left though.

So instead, I packed some today, and then went out for coffe with my debate partner. I guess actually, he's someone else's debate partner now. He, he gave me a present today. He told me I was a member of the Leaders-For-Life club [a private joke of sorts] and I busted out laughing. Then, he pulled out a book and handed it to me: John MacArthur's The Book On Leadership. He enclosed a note - it made me cry later when I read it.

I'm done packing my stuff into empty liquor boxes now [unfortunately, the best place in town to get free boxes is the liquor store, Pinkie's] and I'm waiting for Melanie, Andrew, and Evan so we can get our study on for our Congress & the Legislative Process final tomorrow. I'm so NOT excited about that...so UHHH. Oh wellz. I also have my COMS 111 final tomorrow. Sorrow. Infinate sorrow...except not. That class hurts me.

I think I have time to get some more Dante in before study time starts.