This morning, instead of my usual morning ritual of frittering away gobs of time by internet wandering, I got right to work on my first paper for my Lutheran Foundations class that's due on Thursday morning before the class meets. It's not a complex paper, only 750 words, but I need to submit it on Wednesday, since I don't have much time on Thursday mornings.
And now, I have a rough draft--hurrah!
I feel similarly about this paper as I felt about the short Luther paper that I wrote for my Church History class in February of 2023. I remember feeling pleased with the paper on Luther and sacraments, but I wasn't sure it was what my professor had in mind. Happily, in 2023, the paper was what my professor wanted. Hopefully that will be the case here too.
Soon I will head down the mountain to Spartanburg Methodist College. It's the first Monday that I'll be on campus since November. For spring term, classes started on Tuesday and then we had the following Monday off for the MLK holiday. The past two Mondays have been snow days. And now, here we are.
Of course, I've been meeting those classes in person on Wednesdays and Fridays, so it hasn't been like I haven't seen those students. But it still seems worth noting. A colleague at SMC tells me that in all his years at the school, over 35 years, they've never had as many snow days as they've had this year. I believe it.
I predict that this kind of weather is going to be the norm as we continue moving through the 21st century--not the snow itself, but the fact that past performance will NOT be a predictor of future performance.
Let me get myself in gear. This Monday won't teach itself.
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