Report on a Week that Had an Inauguration, a Snow Day, and a Return to Seminary Classes

I had planned to go to the grocery store yesterday.  But when I left the house, I didn't realize that Trump had planned a trip to Asheville yesterday.  I decided to avoid Airport Road, since his plane would be landing at the Asheville Airport, just a few miles from my house.  I was surprised to find that traffic was so backed up on the other major road, Highway 25, that takes me to my house.  Happily, it was backed up in the way opposite to mine.  I decided not to try to get to the grocery store.  I knew we had plenty of provisions.

Once I got to the house, I changed clothes and went for a walk.  It wasn't too cold, almost 40 degrees, which seems balmy this winter.  More importantly, the winds were calm.  I had a great walk, with a stop in the weight room.

It was a quiet evening:  some reading, some television watching, an early bedtime.  This morning I was up very early, working on poems, sending out some submissions, writing in my offline journal.

It's been such a strange week.  It seems like weeks or months ago that the inauguration happened, but it was only on Monday.  Such a flurry of activity.  I am glad that I don't work for a government agency or a group that reports to a government agency or a larger school.  I have heard from various sources about the confusion that comes in the wake of all of the declarations and orders of the new administration.  Ugh.

We had our second snow day of the semester--for a school in South Carolina!  Two snow days in three weeks.  Amazing.

I continue to be very happy in my teaching.  This week I finished my self-evaluation that each faculty member is required to submit, and I feel good about what I've accomplished.  The publishing part of my evaluation is fairly empty, so in the coming year, I'll work on that.

I am finishing an MDiv, so I'm hoping that fact will counteract my lack of publications.  This semester will be my last semester, and my Thursday night class that I'm taking is fantastic so far.  We're looking at Christmas and Easter together, taking out the middle to see how the beginning and the end of the Christ story inform each other. 

Let me get to the grocery store this morning and get stocked up for the week-end.  It feels like the calm before any number of storms--but we're not expecting snow this week, so that's something.