Time for Business

Looking at my calendar... I've got my regular homework to do now, for the coming week, as well as two projects and the sermon. The next couple weeks are going to be annoyingly tight, until... Christmas? ... ... Ok, well... That's fine. It looks like I might have a bit of a breath mid-November, actually, but either way I've been doing it all so far without motivation potions, so I might just need to change that.

Over the break, however, (which is not over, thank God,) I've been putting in a couple extra hours at work to make up for when I was sick, as well as (less successfully) my upcoming partial absence this coming week as I go attend classes in person until the 24th. I enjoy being on campus more than being at home, I think, but the logistics make that pretty impossible. I certainly wouldn't mind living out there one bit. Regardless, even a short period will help me focus in a different way, I'll get to talk to my professors, and it has a lovely view whilst studying, to boot. Speaking of which, I was on my way home yesterday and saw a small opening to a gravel path that I had not seen on previous days, and when I followed it I was very pleased to find a lake trail. I had not known it existed, because it is otherwise surrounded by rows of houses that block its visibility from the main road. I stood and looked over it for a while, and it felt like a gift to be there. 

(As an aside, it had originally been my hope that I could include my own pictures on the blog, but since I didn't leave my apartment last year, the available pictures were slim indeed. These recent changes to the blog have potential to make sharing actual pictures a possibility moving forward!)