sometimes hobbies gotta die

One thing that I have realized lately is that I'm too busy.  I will refrain from taking more than 12 hours a semester all at once from now on.  I will get a August and January term in and then have 12 hours for the semester so I can get my 15/semester total.  Of course I have not withdrawn from my classes now; call me stubborn or call me stupid and I'd agree.
The other thing I realized... sometimes your hobby just gotta die.  It's blogging and working out for me, for instance.  Because I am just so busy, I can't handle, much less think about, spending time doing things other than studying all week and spending time with Alison on the weekend. Were I single I would just have a free weekend.  It's all about getting priorities straight, what are the essentials and what are the nonessentials?

It hurts too, I love blogging; I literally have a list of 5 thoughts/ideas, that I want to work through on this blog and that's been adding up since the first day of class, and I really wanna work out, ya know for the honeymoon... and well I think that's enough justification in itself, but I would also like to be healthy as well.  It makes me wonder what next semester will look like when not only will classes are essential, but so is my wife.  I certainly hope I don't cut into either of those.  I think I'd much rather lose sleeping and eating...

But I guess this is my thought for now...  I am gonna start studying for my Old Testament class.
If you want some good musings I myself have a personal fondness for www.donmilleris.com and www.qideas.org

I'm still here!

Wow, so talk about a busy, busy semester.  I don't think, at least I hope, that I'll ever be this exhausted and swamped when I actually have a church, but I am thinking that that is just wishful thinking.
I have a job now, which is nice.  I am also taking 15 credit hours, which is a ton.  You might think its just 15, but I don't think I've had to read and write so much in my life.  I also actually have a group of friends I hang out with on a regular basis now whilst on campus.  And that's probably the nicest thing; when I first got here in August I was glum about not having anyone to hang out with and living so far away from campus only compounded that fact.  But since late October, or November, I've had a group of people whom I enjoy.  I will say, also, that I am glad that I live a far away from campus as I do.