may the fourth be with you

hahaha! okay, so i'm not that clever on my own. one of adam's schoolmates that i met this week is that clever. don't worry, i told him i would steal it from him and he was okay with it. in fact, i gave him another interesting date (march 4th ... the only day in the year that's a command) in return.

this week has been really good (as anticipated). right now i'm dead exhausted though so i don't know if i'm going to remember all the highlights accurately. obviously the most notable highlight was spending time with my friend adam. even though i don't think we hung out much ever, even in college where we had overcome our high school personas, we have a lot of interesting history together and it's fun to reminisce. it's also fun because adam and i have very similiar personalities so it's just easy to hang out and talk about silly stuff as well as deeper stuff. mostly though, adam spent his time at the conference and like i said before i was going to relax. i actually did end up working a lot more than i was scheduled this week. this is good because i need some funds for my upcoming drive from new jersey to missouri.

i went to a couple worship services at the conference and one seminar led by kenda dean. these things were very soul-filling for me. at least, they were able to help slake some of the thirst that my dry, dry soul has been suffering from in this drought called seminary. i probably went too far with the metaphor in that sentence but i'm too tired to erase it and start again. i'm just saying ... i forgot how good worship is.

two nights this week, some of adam's classmates invited us over to play board games. the first night we played risk. i have never played risk before and didn't quite understand it. once i finally got the rules down, i realized i was beyond being able to strategize and would soon be out of the game. ah well, i still had fun! seems that i still have the ability to trash talk even when i'm in a room of complete strangers. oh i forgot to mention that before the game, adam had taken me to dinner but neither of us was really hungry so we decided to drink dinner instead. i'm sure that helped me loosen up so i could function cleverly in the new social situation. i really liked and was impressed with the garrett seminarians. a good group of people. i especially seemed to get along with stephen (the one who enlightened me about may the fourth). i think it's just encouraging to know that there are people out there that you can meet randomly and for a short time and still have a very fun time with and be connected in God's love. oh gosh, now i think i switched from grossly poetic to overly sentimental. i just want you to know that i'm writing this post after less than four hours of sleep and a long, long day at work.

all right, back to the highlights, last night we played monopoly. i've never been good at monopoly and that makes me very much less competitive. i know i'm not going to win so i just have fun. sometimes i have tendencies to take games too seriously ... but i've tried to work on it and last night i was totally fine when i was the second person to go out. it did make me feel better that adam was the first person to go out when i have viewed him as the monopolizer of monopoly (that is, adam loves the game and is very good at it and probably usually wins).

okay, i can't think of any more major highlights of the past couple days ... unless you count my "very informative" tour of princeton where i pointed things out by saying something like "there's a pretty building" and most of my answers to questions were "umm, i don't know".

how early is too early to go to bed? 8? 9? i don't know how long i'm going to last...