I did not fall off the planet.

Although, it may seem like I have. Since I just finished my Winter quarter and have a short break until the Spring quarter, I thought I would catch everyone up. For those of you who do not get to see me on a regular basis, a.k.a my fellow Fuller students, this note is for you.

I did not disappear from the face of the earth. I landed in a small section of the world called seminary. The past seven months have been quite a whirlwind of adaptation and new experiences as I delved back into the world of academia. I have been out of school for awhile so the learning curve of papers, quizzes and tests took me a while to find a rhythm to my school work. Ten weeks is definitely a short amount of time to learn so much information.

So now I have just finished my finals for the Winter quarter and I am rejoicing that I am done! Although I did contract the epidemic of the Hand Cramp after many hours of feverish writing to complete two finals. Luckily, the epidemic did not last long as the muscles in my fingers finally began to relax. I now have full use of my hand. YEAH!

The last several days have been interesting as I prepped my mind for the forthcoming finals. The two I had were Psychopathology and OT Writings. At one point, I thought those two were such a weird combination to be stuffing my brain with criteria and notes that for a moment I was DID. For those of you outside the cohort, that means Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. So here I am a psychology student dividing my mind into theology. Two distinct personalities gaining control with full awareness yet I began to wonder if I could actually meld the two together, integrating them into one whole person as I was learning in Integration. (FYI – I am having fun with a play-on-words with my classes from the past quarter.)

So now, I have ten days with no classes, no tests, no quizzes, no reading assignments. What am I going to do? HAVE FUN!!! ENJOY THE SUN!!! Before I delve into the endless pit of academia once again only to emerge within eleven weeks, blinking my eyes at the wonder of the world beyond seminary.

I will definitely try to keep things up this time around.