In gratitude

alright, having just read and enjoyed other people's blogs immensely for the past refreshing amount of time... I figured I probably should post something. I was planning on posting anyway. It's odd. I seem to have started a pattern of posting on Tuesday... I'm not sure why this is... In anycase, if this keeps up this is the first of my bi-weekly posts and you can expect another one circa friday. *sighs* hopefully, this won't keep up. The reason for the recent lack of posts is that I've been writing a research paper for Old Testament Backgrounds. It was due today and it was finished today. And I am happy with it. I think it is good. It hardly scratches the surface... and *sighs* I guess I like the feeling that what it covered it did well, but that there is so much more... that it didn't have to be the final answer or the definative description. So, yes, I am happy with it as I was very afraid last friday that I wouldn't be. And when it was finished I skipped around the room and sang random snatches of song... and I would still be at it, but tiredness has set in, and I still have a good bit of homework to catch up on. I let things slide in the push to finish the paper, and maybe I shouldn't have... maybe I could have pushed myself harder and gotten more done... ah, maybe it is enough that it is done. I think I need to learn to look around and find things that matter even when I'm busy. I keep thinking to myself that once I catch up, once I have a little space to breathe, then then I will figure out what I'm leaving undone. *shakes head* but I've got an exegesis paper due a week from next Monday, and an abstract for another paper due on next tuesday... so if I'm ever going to figure it out, it must be in the midst of the mundane and busy. Slow... things I need to learn, badly... and now I am tired, happy, and need to do homework. "It's been a long day coming, and nor will it last when it's last day leaving, I'm helping it pass by loving you more."~Dido