Here We Go Again

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It's the beginning of a new semester. What could possibly go wrong?

Well there's been that bit of news that I was sort of prepared for, but not really since life couldn't possibly be that ironic... but it is. And there was that moment or five of acting like a complete crazy person, in completely understandable circumstances, but crazy nonetheless. Not to mention the infection that began at my nose and spread to my chest, but seems to have stopped short at my lungs. (Which is good, but required the use of a neti pot and I choose to reserve my judgment on whether or not the neti pot gets to fall into the good category. Mainly because my left nostril does not seem capable of dealing with the neti pot.)

And then there is school... a whole other ballgame, as it were. I have to pass a foreign language fluency exam, but I don't know when and I haven't really studied German since high school. Unless you count the Berlitz learning system - which I did, until I completed it and realized that reserving a hotel room won't help me in the least. And then there is the comprehensive exam, which is big, huge, scary ... and I don't even know the date. Shouldn't I be able to know the date by now? I'm guessing other people know the date - but I don't.

Strangely, classes are not so frightening. But it's early yet. I have to give a report tomorrow about a sermon from 1775 in which John Fletcher compares the Rape of the Unnamed Concubine (Book of Judges) to the Boston Tea Party. Why? To justify the use of force to subdue the colonies, of course. Seriously, of all the violent texts in the bible that give the appearance of justifying violence - you went to THAT one? I suppose it's the clearest example of God being agreeable to near genocide due to the destruction of "personal property" - but seriously... a woman raped to death is equal to the loss of tea? The comparison is more horrific than the original story - which is one of the most horrific in the Tanakh, in my not so humble opinion.

Ahem, excuse me I got distracted. The long and the short of it is that January has tried my patience. Never mind that I'm a January Girl, time to get this show on the road and move into February. At least in the second half of the month I can blame Pisces.