so, i am down in texas. it is quite hot, flat and ugly, as anticipated, but also good in a lot of ways. for instance, there is a pool right outside my door. also, the sky has some amazing shades of blue, lavender, even, grey, and i'm sure more during storm season. speaking of which, i love thunderstorms and am excited about them. we've had one or two little-ish ones already.
the chapel on campus is about the most traumatizing, iconoclastic building ever. it looks like an auditorium, and even the stations of the cross have been removed to little titled tiles on the floor. the Tabernacle is in another room completely, off the foyer. it is equally distressing. on the other hand ... latin Mass daily at a Church downtown, and on sundays at a carmelite convent, which is exhilirating. beyond excited about that.
i have four classes--three is full-time, but i'm hoping a) to keep myself out of trouble, b) apply for the doctoral program at the end of the year, and c) finish relatively quickly (that's not a multiple choice, btw). i'm taking classical rhetoric, victorian literature, english renaissance, and american literature.
as for the irony ... have yet to address the large pink elephant in the corner of the room, as it were. it has been an interesting study in psychology, however; perhaps i am beginning to understand what happened last summer. but she is a great girl, my other two roommates have been so welcoming and absolutely wonderful in general. so God is good, despite His very peculiar sense of humor. it really is the most fitting next step to a situation that has been absurd and farcical from its beginning (or ending?). i was joking, God, joking. i guess He thinks that i am spiritually aenemic.
well, i'm heading off for a walk with roommates and the puppy (yay!), so more later of a more objective nature.
pax!
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