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My first day of school
Today I had my first meeting for my independent study on von Balthasar and Barth. I'm starting by reading The Theology of Karl Barth. After I finish that (in two weeks!) and write a two page paper summarizing his position, I will move onto the Church Dogmatics, vol 4.1 and 4.2. (I found both of them for $30 each on other used bookstore websites actually.) I'm supposed to pick and choose what sections to read from those volumes, so if anyone has any suggestions let me know. The semester will end with a twenty page paper.
I was nervous, for some reason. I want to succeed because I might want to go to grad school, and I don't want to let down the prof who's taking the time to direct this study (who was also my prof at Duke.) I just tried to relax and ask the questions I had about the text so far. I figure I must want to do this class for a reason. Who thinks, hmm...reading the Dogmatics...that sounds like a totally fun way to spend the next three months! (Except the other kid in the independent study, but he's such a punk ass geek that he did all the reading this summer. I am simulanteously burning with jealousy and derision.) Does my desire for theology mean something vocationally, or just that I'm also a geek?
"Does my desire for theology mean something vocationally, or just that I'm
also a geek?"
I think you may have read too much into that Salon advice column you posted on the other day. =) But of course, I also think reading the Dogmatics sounds like a wonderfully fun way of spending the next three months, so my perceptions may be somewhat skewed.
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Y'know, I had given some thought to going back to school, but the pressure
was too much for me. Seriously... Which Trapper Keeper should I buy? What
if I still suck at kickball? What if I ask that girl to go with me and she
checks the "No" box? I'm just not ready for that kind of rejection at this
point in my life.
Seriously, though... congrats!
"Trapper Keeper" =) LOL! Major flashback here.
I'm looking for grad schools right now...hoping to start full time in Fall '04. My faves of the moment are Mars Hill Graduate School and Phoenix Seminary. Any other ideas? Fund raising ideas would also be a help...of course, cold hard cash would be even better.
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Mikey, I know what you mean. I was standing at the store in front of all
the Trapper Keepers and wondering if purple was liturgically appropriate.
Perhaps green would have been less flashy? Neo, I haven't heard of those
schools, but I haven't started seriously researching schools yet.
Knowing that he was traipsing into dangerous territory, Mikey turned his
powers of obscure recall towards his early years in the Methodist church,
hoping to score a laugh - but knowing that odds were 50-1 against being
either (a) correct or (b) funny:
The purple Trapper Keeper is perfectly appropriate, but only during Lent.