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.

Back Again

Sorry its been a while. The last couple of weeks have been really busy between exams, projects, and Corps Trips. I have decided that Texas A&M football will not be a subject of conversation except to say that we are going to BTHO t.u., embarrassing them on national TV -- a least the soccer team has already made it to the Sweet Sixteen, and the volleyball team beat Baylor at Waco. I have eight more days of class before finals, but many of those days will have fewer classes than normal, so the semester is winding down. I am registering for classes this evening, but it looks like I will be taking eight o'clocks every day of the week next semester. Ugh. The sophomores got their brass this morning, so one more milestone down for them. I guess that's about it.

Pressing on

Not much of interest has happened this past week. After a very busy week turning in several large reports this week has been fairly laid back. I guess there was the election, but I cast my vote several weeks ago and have not really paid attention since. We have our last home football game as cadets this weekend. From here I can count on one hand the number of times I will pass in review in boots. I must admit I will be ready to get out of the Corps, the drama and tail chasing does get old after awhile. In general, this week had been about the usual, trying to get set up for next week, and waiting.

Report Completed

My MEEN 360 full report-all 23 pages, 10 figures, 3 table, and 24 equations-is turned in. I finished up at 11:00 pm and it was due at midnight giving me an ample cushion. So now I am sitting here on something of a caffeine high from that coffee I had around 6. I think I will write the spiritual journey part of my Pine Cove application and call it a night.

Crunch week

This is it! Sunday starts the most important week of my semester. I have two full reports due, one on Tuesday, one on Thursday, a presentation on Monday, and a Greek quiz on Tuesday. If I can do well this week, my grades will be mostly set for the semester. Tomorrow, today by the time y'all read this, I will be staffing a land nav course for the Army FTX. I get to sit at a water point for eight hours. I am going to be so ready for next Friday to roll around.

Drill!

Another extremely productive weekend at drill is over. Mostly I did inventory and paperwork. This next couple of weeks will be busy because most of my major coursework is due next week. Right now my focus is just on staying close to being caught up.
Yesterday I went to the MSC to set up an interview with Pine Cove. Turned out they had time right then, so I did the interview then. The interview seemed to go well, so hopefully they will want me to work this summer. I guess I'll find out later. I'm going to an informational with Camp Ozarka this week to see about applying there, to help keep my options open. This is my last summer before I graduate, so if I want to work at a summer camp, this is my last chance.