Another Day Another Dollar

Two weeks down, 10% of regular school days completed (according to my friend Daniel). This week took the dive into Luke. So far we have completed the first 39 verses and have the next 27 assigned. As I'm not that good at Greek, that translates to about 3 hours of translating for each assignment. Having 8 o'clocks has turned out well just because it gets me up in the morning and I get a bunch of homework done. Last night I even had time to go out to the Texas Hall of Fame (the best dance hall in BCS). I had a good time, now just time to learn to dance :)
Today was the last swim meet. The men swam against SMU. We ended losing by one point, heartbreaking considering that night our best diver both of his previous score records. Tomorrow we have basketball games against OSU (men) and KU (women). The men have to win; after playing OU, KU, t.u., and some others our record is rather weak. At least we beat tech.
My buddies, some friends, and I made an intramural soccer team and out first game is this Wednesday.
Well not much else going on this week so here's to a couple of good basketball games.

Aggie Athletics Day

Yesterday I spent most of the day at various sporting events. First we went to the joint swim meet against LSU. The women swam really well and when we left we cruising to any easy win. The men's side was a lot closer but they ended up losing by 10 points. After swimming we went over to the tennis stadium to watch the first women's event of the semester. It was very cold out there, so after about 45 minutes we moved on to the joint track meet.
This track meet was the first meet in the new indoor track stadium. Its so big they can run all the track events under the same roof. Both of our track teams did really well and won their meets.
Church today was pretty good. We had out first college lunch of the semester and that was a lot of fun. Its nice to be able to hang out instead of rushing back to the dorm to get things done.
Here's to an easy week (I hope)

I'm Back

I'm posting as I watch another episode of Battlestar Galatica Classic. For a 70's show its really quite enjoyable. I really like how they launch their fighters out of launch tubes, giving them the ability to scramble very quickly as opposed to the Star Wars notion of launching out of hangers. Right now Baltar is organizing a prison break. He's quite a clever schemer.
This week hasn't been a bad first week, minus the excess homework for a first week of school. New Testament Greek is the main culprit-I've already spent about six hours translating forty verses from John and all of Second John. I must admit his Greek is (thankfully) very simple. Most of his verse construction is along the lines of one person said "..." and another replied "...". We are supposed to start Luke and do some Acts eventually. Yesterday we also talked about textual criticism and the manuscripts from which the New Testament was compiled. It turns out that there are four main groups of manuscripts that are used. The Western, Byzantine, Alexandrian, and the Neutral. Its all rather interesting; I hope I can survive the workload.
This evening we went to the women's swim meet against the 'sips. They lost by twenty points or so, but still swam quite well. Two of the swimmers go to RUF so its always fun to support them. One of them swam a solid leg in the freestyle relay. She held us neck and neck with a very fast swimmer. A bunch of my buddies and some other friends all went so we had a good size group. Tomorrow we will be going to a swim meet, tennis meet, and indoor track meet. It should be quite a good day, and after all the events we might go play a bit of volleyball.
Well here's looking to a fun weekend.