ords 2

I am 75% done. I was the first one in my room to finish the polity exam this morning, which worries me a tad -- if I found it easy and everyone else found it difficult, did I miss the boat? Mis-read the questions? Need to wait until early November to find out. Got a headache in the middle of the exam, took aspirin in the car on the way home, slept when I got home, still have the headache. I was able to take the biblical exegesis exam with me when I left this morning, but so far I have not looked at it. Ideally, I will tomorrow, so that Thursday, September 1 won't roll around too soon and surprise me!

Overall, the ords felt like a good/thoughtful/thought-provoking experience. Was even considering sending the proctor a thank-you note for her good work in there....her prayers before we began were helpful and calming (not to mention the tampon provision!).

Family off at a pig-nic (pig roast central to a picnic?) -- I'm not feeling up to it, between fatigue, headache, cramps, sorrow: found out today that a 15-year-old from our old neighborhood died in May of kidney cancer. Very sad. Hard for all of us to lose people we knew before we are ready to, before it's "right." Now (since CPE) I look at death differently, not in a better or easier or more logical way -- I think I consider more the family dynamics, the survivors' guilt, dying of the earthly body before the hope of eternal resurrection in Christ....

OK, that sounds like the ords coming back. Might be time to wrap this one up.