Days of Lethargy

I'm not going to blame it on Saturday night, but the past few days have seen very little in the way of productivity from this young one.

What happened Saturday? There was the matter of the 24th birthday party of KPlax. Mr. Fear & Trembling himself was looking very suave as he critiqued the PoMo use of Brown on Black...


And he was also there to show off his superb tie to our representative from overseas....


So, that good time kind of spawned a series of events where I either didn't want to get work done, seemed physically incapable of getting work done, or got legitimately distracted by other things. Maybe my brain is taking some rest after some intense weeks of work that have resulted in getting a few steps ahead.

How does one go about curing lethargy? Is it an active process? Or is the cure to lethargy, ironically, to treat it passively and hope it just goes away?

I'm not one for passivity, more or less, so I've forced myself into good old Firestone tonight, and cranked out about 3 hours of work before taking the time to partake in some free internet usage (thank you puvisitor!) so make (gasp!) yet another update.

Next week is the reading break. A year ago I was preparing to head into the Adirondacks wilderness. This year I think I will again take some time to head into the unknown, but it won't be as far. This year I may head into some mental wilderness for the first couple of days. My brain needs time away. In the same way that this summer at Mount Hermon I found that the more I like the place, the more important it was for me to take time away from it. Now, back at school, I think I am seeing that pattern emerge again. This is a place that becomes so ingrained that sometimes you forget you can live and breathe without it. It is for that reason that I need to take time away. What would happen if a frog suddenly forgot it enjoyed life in the water? I guess it would forget the joy of swimming and think that it was forever doomed to hop the earth.

Ahh, cheesy analogies. Another facet of life....

No Excuses

OK, so maybe it has been a while since I have really bothered to do anything with the blog. You see, I'm not a huge blog person, and yet I have a blog. For a while there was a long debate about my desire to continue the blog now that school is back in swing and life is legitimately busy. But...

At this point I am a week ahead in reading for all my classes. It's time to start working on papers and sermons that aren't due for many weeks. It is time to actually get life organized and learn that maybe, just maybe, I could lead a normal life that doesn't invovle mounting hour after hour and late night after late night at the library (for this semester at least). And maybe I could start savoring readings instead of blitzing my way through some of them with highlighter and pen in hand.

And then there's free reading.

So before some of you fellow seminarians come down to my room and beat me up for getting too much work done, let's move on.

A week ago the Bros celebrated the (continuing) life of Josh. I can sum up the night by saying it was perhaps the best time I've had so far this year. To top it off, many awkward pictures were taken. Becuase the bros are never shy, I know they would regret it if I didn't share some of those very pics.


If you don't know, Josh is a simply amazing artist. He just finished this amazing piece: Heather & Macaroni The piece means a lot to Josh and symbolizes his struggle to overcome a lifelong addiction to the siren he calls lethargy and feline personality he knows as interior design.

Now, I don't want the other bros to get jealous, so let the awkward pictures keep rolling...




Handsome. We'll see if I can get a post up (soon) about something that actually happened recently. We'll see.