Thoughts

This is probably going to end up just being a bunch of random unorganized thoughts, but I feel as though I'm due for another post, and I have plenty of unconnected things buzzing around my head. So I figure I'll lay them down here.

For starters, I'm done exams. Which is a wonderful relief. They went well, although the scale of "well" seems to be shifted, partly due to the "six-oh and go" attitude that is bred by this pass/fail system, partly due to the rumours that fly from upper years about any question that everyone does bad on getting dropped from the test (resulting in wildly inflated grades) and to some degree just because the tests, however similar to what I've seen before, are subtly different in some ways.

Being done means a good weekend just past of relaxation and celebration. Hung out with friends, went to a Christmas party, carol sing at church, lunch with Don and El, CMDS dinner at a house unlike any I've seen before, comlete with second carol sing of the day. Only one thing could put a stop to such enjoyment of life.

And that would be the return of class on Monday. OK, it wasn't that bad. No worse than any normal Monday morning in terms of content or attention holding ability. But the very fact of returning to class after a set of exams was a bit of a downer. Fortunately this week is full of fun evenings. Such as waterpolo and dodgeball against the second years in the last two days, talent show, poker and the like.

Lastly, and rather disconnected from the above, is a conversation I had with a friend this evening. The topic of Christian faith came up, thanks to his asking about it, where I hadn't really anticipated it coming from him. We had an interesting conversation about faith and science, as well as sharing where we both stand right now in our journeys. It was neat to connect on that level and good to see someone working their way back towards faith.