Jenny's Jottings

School began at the end of August, so I haven't been posting so much. I've been reading my friends page, though!

I am back in school. I work about 15 hours a week at the school library, every morning from opening until about 11ish. I volunteered to be in charge of the bulletin board and display case this year. So far, so good.
I am taking 3 classes. Tuesday night I have Daniel and other Apocalyptic Literature. We've looked at I Enoch and a bunch of other early literature. I did a presentation on The Sibylline Oracles, Book III, with April. I have an exegesis paper and presentation at the end of the semester on Susana. Thursday afternoons I have The History of Christian Spiritualities. I read a great book for it called Engaged Spirituality: Ten Lives of Contemplation and Action. I'm working on future projects on Julian of Norwich and Marian Spirituality (as in the Virgin Mary). My third class meets 5 weekends over the semester (Friday evening and all day Saturday). This is Comparative Ethics of World Religions. We are looking at ethical issues in health care from different Christian traditions, as well as Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. I've got 3 papers and a 45 minute presentation in that class. There are only 9 students in it, so I really enjoy being involved in the discussion. Last week I had 3 papers due and LOTS of reading, so I was really quite stressed out. I've been doing so much better this semester with taking time for myself and balancing school with the rest of the life. I was keeping up and even ahead on my reading until last week. At least this week is reading week, and I can catch up again.

At the end of September I had my follow-up 6-month appointment to make sure the cancer hadn't come back. Both the ultrasound and the blood work were clear! Hooray! I'm having some other medical weirdness, but I don't know what it is.

If it isn't raining (or snowing) the rest of the week, Molly and I hppe to go camping. We didn't get out this summer, so we'd really like to go now. This past weekend we went to the Ohio Renaissance Festival. We had a blast. The weather was perfect. Molly got a henna tattoo on her hand. I will take a picture of it. We saw two shows and lots of neat crafts. We ate a super yummy apple dumpling! Best of all we ordered our rings. I haven't been able to find a picture of them online, so I'll have to take a picture once they come. They are silver and made by Norman Greene from Berkeley. We are in the process of setting the date for our holy union -- probably later in May 2007, when school is over. Mark your calendars now!

Well, enough update for now.