A Day Late

At the library again. I haven't been able to get on the internet (outside of school hours) for the past couple days, so I'm cashing in my credit from the day I got in my car accident and double-posted. I won't count it if you won't.

It seems as though I devoted a bit too much time this weekend to leisure, because I have felt disgustingly unprepared for class every day this week. Every day I manage to pull through, but I feel like I'm just barely getting by.

On the plus side, it looks like my car will soon be fixed. I got a check in the mail from the insurance company of the woman who hit me, and tomorrow I'm going in to talk with the mechanic who will be doing the repairs and he's going to see if he can cut down on their estimate so that I can keep a little bit of the insurance check for myself. Hopefully that conversation goes well.

Also, last night was my first RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) class. After having some trouble finding the building, I sat down in a semi-circle with about a dozen other individuals including three instructors, two sponsors, and a handful of candidates/catechumens. The average age in the group was probably upwards of thirty-five and I was the only unmarried adult (there were two sixteen year-olds). So, once again, probably not the place I'm going to be making friends... The class itself was alright, though a bit too touchy-feely for my tastes. I don't want to circumvent the system or anything, but I wish there was a more rigorous route I could take. I expected homework out of the Catechism, saints' lives to read, rituals and historical data to memorize, etc. Instead the meeting was really just the sort of "feelings" session that I have previously found so refreshingly absent from the Catholic church.

Oh well. I'm sure I'll find a way to get what I need to out of it.

In the near future I'd like to:
1. Respond to Pat's comment on yesterday's post.
2. Comment on Mike and Maggie's blogs.
3. Put down some thoughts on Sarah Palin.
4. Explain what I meant when I said that Julia Child and I disagreed about the nature of art.
5. Attempt to start a blog centered around reading and reacting to essays by notable authors a couple times a week.

One last thing: yesterday a student told me about a website called FreeRice.com where you can identify vocabulary (in English, French, Spanish and German) and for every word you get correct, the sitemakers donate 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program.

While I have implicit trust in neither this website, nor in the UN, it is fun, and it couldn't hurt. My best vocabulary level is 51. Let me know if you beat that. These words are HARD.

Fun Fact: I've tagged more than one post with the label "empty promises".