I guess I'm really learning something.

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Busy, Busy, Busy.


I feel like that is all it is anymore. I'm feeling the weight of eighteen credit hours right now as I have looked at my Blog for the last 4 days, longing to write, but not having the time to do so.
I know, I know. I should just make some time to do the things that I enjoy. But, when it comes down to it, I enjoy way to may things to spend a little bit of time everyday doing each and everyone of them and still keep up with my school work.

Me writing now, however, in no way says that I am caught up or a head with my school work. I am actually still really over worked, but that is probably because I just had an amazing weekend with an amazing girl friend. But, I either way, I still have a lot of work I should be doing.

I realized today that I take a lot of things for granted at school. Like the fact that I'm getting a killer biblical education. I hardly ever think about how sweet this place is like in it's teaching and foundation from the word.

I sat in my bible intro class thinking. Really, how many people know all this stuff about the bible. The answer if you stay on campus at Moody is well, everyone. But if you go home and have friends that don't go to bible school, well they probably don't know anything about it. I guess I take that for granted a lot of times because I feel like everyone knows what I know. I forget that what I'm learning really is only taught at a hand full of schools.

This whole thought process was about a millisecond between writing about the NT Pseudepigrapha and some other ancient early church texts. Ok, sorry I just wanted to prove that I learned something by saying that big word. But just to prove I know what it is..
NT Pseudepigrapha- a text in the time of the early church that was rejected and said to be non-canonical by everyone.

See. I have learned something. : )

Anyway, I take that for granted.

Time to rest.

-smitty
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To take pictures.. a dream

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Ever since I was a kid I loved taking pictures. I even went through a stage when all I wanted to do was to be a photographer. My parents got me a nice (at the time) panasonic camera, I took pictures everywhere and it was really nice to have. I got to do what I wanted to do all the time. Although, about a year after getting my camera, it broke. Not because any fault of my own, for I would have never let any harm come to my baby. It had some sort of software meltdown, at the time I couldn't understand. It was very upsetting, and for a time my dream seemed, and still seems, hopeless..


My passion for photography has been suffering for the past 9 years, since that really nice (at the time) camera broke. I have a small compact camera, but it is very limited in what it can do. I'm currently saving for a Canon Rebel xsi. Which the more I learn about the more I really want it. I have been learning as much as I can about digital SLR cameras for a little over a month now. All the different stuff they can do is amazing. I really would like to bring back that passion I once had. It seems so far away now, due to the fact that I have other things taking my moneys from me. But someday, probably in the next decade, hopefully be for I graduate from moody I will be able to get the camera that I want, or one like it..

Perhaps I am being selfish in wanting something like this, but it is something that I really want.... I have mixed emotions, but mostly sad ones, any time I see a SLR...

I just wish I could find one on my desk when I walk into my room.. haha... Like that would ever happen.

But, it did in a dream once.

Dyslexia at it's best.

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I just realized that with the amount of time I spend on the internet, mostly facebook, I could easily have a blog a day. Yet, I still spend most of my time on facebook, where I look at profiles of people I don't know very well and have little time to express myself. But, I am addicted, like every other college age kid, leave a couple home schoolers who think it's the devil. Not, trying to offend anyone, just going along with a stereotype.


Anyway, Today, a teacher for one of my classes, I will leave him nameless, decided it would be a good idea to make every person in the class read a section in of Acts. Being dyslexic you can see were this is going. My turn came and I totally failed, reading maybe two words at a time if they were short.

After my friend got done reading we could hardly stop our selves from laughing at how terrible I had done. I'm almost positive that some of the kids thought I was joking, I wasn't.

I just can't read.

I thought the torment might have been over after the time, but the teacher made some comments about how some of the class seems a bit out of practice reading the word.

I wanted to stand up and yell something like, "Thanks for picking on a kid with a reading disability, Jerk."

I guess it's not that he was picking on me, cause he didn't know he was really. It's not really the fact that he made me seem like a bible school student that didn't read his bible... Ok, maybe it is those things, but I really think it is unfair to make kids read in class and out loud if they don't want to.

Maybe, I'm wrong. But, I think it was probably just as unenjoyable for the rest of the class, that had to listen to me struggle over Acts 2:23-26, as it was for me. I may also be wrong when thinking that if no one likes or is getting anything out of the fact that I'm struggling to read five verses then why have it as part of the class....

Someone, tell me if I'm wrong.

Sorry for venting.

-Smitty

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