Joy = first week of seminary down, with 128 more to go!

We have now finished our first week of classes. Grueling is not exactly the word to use to describe a two-day week in which professors mostly go over their syllabus and hand out reading assignments. Still, Jonathan and I have a LOT of reading to do. We've spent this long weekend studying and trying not to be too distracted by other things.

Some examples of the distractions are as follows:
a) Putting books on our bookshelves.

b) Piling all our boxes and packing material in the storage unit. Horay!

c) Hanging out with our friends Michael and Leslie who were visiting St. Louis from Seattle! It was so nice to see familiar faces.

d) Swimming in the complex pool. They have an indoor one too, which is going to become my primary means of exercise this winter!

e) This morning Jonathan and I found a Target and Home Depot. We acquired one wooden dowel, two waste baskets, a halogen light bulb, some drywall screw mounts and chocolate milk. (Like our good friend Cole in Seattle, we're suckers for chocolate milk) Oh, and we also got three curtain rods, since I've decided to sew and put up curtains in the kitchen and living room. I think I will use the fabric we bought in the Philippines two summers ago, since we have plenty of it =)

f) That led to me trying to drape different fabrics over the curtain rods to see what it would look like, while Jonathan used the drywall screw anchors to put up a shelf above our couch....It now holds the projector, so we can watch movies from his laptop, without setting up the projector every time we want to see a movie. Of course we will probably need to watch something on it tonight since we need to make sure it works!

g) This afternoon I made banana bread, because I imagined I smelled someone in our building making it while I was taking a little afternoon nap. I was aided by three nicely fermenting bananas. I also made chicken Terriyaki and rice for lunch....yum!

So you might be wondering, with good reason, if we have done any reading or studying today. I know I have gotten quite a bit of Educational Theory reading done in between things. I don't know about Jonathan's total accomplishments for the day. However I do know Greek has featured, since he burst out of the office two minutes ago, wildly gesticulating, while making a noise somewhere between "hurra" and a cat coughing up a hairball. Apparently it means "joy" in Greek!

There is Joy in this house!