Life is constantly proving me wrong.

Snapshot of my Monday:
8 am - 9:30 am: Peer Group/Formation for Ministry
9:40-10:10 am: Chapel and announcements
10:20-11:20 am: Church History
12:00 pm - 4 pm: Workin' in the library
4 - 5 pm: Meeting with a psychiatrist to discuss my psychological testing results
5 - 6:20 pm: Grocery shopping
6:30 - 8:30 pm: Ryan Ende lectures on human sexuality

Holy wow, it's been a long day. But I have SO MUCH to tell you! So here's another edition of "things I learned today."

1. I am NOT, in fact, an introvert. According to three different psychological tests, I am simply an extremely self-conscious extrovert. Thus, the title of this post. (Of course, this comes less than a week after I told several rooms full of people and Facebook that I'm an introvert.)

2. Psychological tests, when you're honest in taking them, are scarily accurate. The good news, though, is that I'm not crazy!

3. Christians aren't all human-hating, ridiculous, perfectionist creatures. I wish I could write more about the Ende lecture tonight, and how incredibly refreshing it was to not be doused in hate for two hours, but I'll have to write more tomorrow when my mind is not full of twelve different things I'm supposed to be doing right now. So check back here at this time tomorrow!

things I learned this week

1. Most of my classmates went to RCA schools.  I, in contrast, went to Knox College, the polar opposite of said RCA schools.   
2. The Greek alphabet's lower case.
3. The earth is, according to one of my professors, approximately 5015 years old.
4. Martyrdom, in ancient times, referred to the actual testimony given before a court that resulted in death, not the death itself.
5. Nero really was crazy, and even his own subjects thought so.
6. In Zambia, cornmeal is a dietary staple.
7. A semester system really is much less intense than a 3-term system.  The heaviest reading load I'll ever have for one of my classes is 40 pages.  I can deal with that.
8. 1 out of 7 people will get my name right on the first try.  The rest will either look at me like I'm a little nuts, or make jokes about being "JUICED!" 
9. My advisor's name is Sue, and part of me swears that I know her from somewhere.
10. There are far too many people here that look familiar.  And at least half of the people here have been to Fulton, are related to someone in Fulton, or know a pastor that once lived in Fulton.

As you can tell, most of this is useless information.  I have learned useful things, but haven't really found a way to put them in a short, pithy sentence.  There will be more of these, rest assured, but for now, I'm just going to go eat dinner and try to tackle part of this mountain.