2nd semester

Today was the first day in the last semester of my college career. It was a good day, and this is going to be quite the semester. MWF I have a 1pm and a 2pm class. TR I have bowling at noon and on R I have ceramics at 1030am. Periodically I have Sociology Senior Sem on thursday afternoons and Senior Thesis on monday afternoons as well. All in all, it's going to be a pretty light semester. I'm definitely not going to complain about having no morning classes. Say yes to sleep.

Dude week... It's coming to a Morris Hall near you and it's gonna be sweet. We're planning some fun stuff and I'm enjoying that. However, I am enjoying it more because of the purpose behind it. It's about self-control. A good, good topic. Most of the time we think of self control and self denial in the context of overly righteous and pious things like fasting from food or overly heinous things like pornography. However, it's suprising to me that we forget about the practice of self control or self denial simply for the recognition or the verification that I am, in fact, in control of my own body. Yes, we have freedom in Christ... I'm not talking about sin or evil or anything innately wrong here. No freedom is being taken away. Just reminding myself that I can and should be held accountable for what I do. Responsibility.

The guys are all back on the floor now, I am reminded of how good my friends are to me, Disko's here for a while, and staying in my room, I've had amazing conversations with Darla for the last two nights, my sister made fun of my slack off schedule on her away message today, I had a good time with my dad over the weekend, I just found out about a job fair in Indy next week, I turned in the Milford Middleschool basketball signup this afternoon, and needless to say, life couldn't be much smoother at this point.