Naps R Me

Sleep has been somewhat of a hard-to-catch halfback the last few days. He (if I may be so bold as to label sleep a male) has eluded me and seems to be running behind the best offensive line anyone has ever seen.

OK, I apologize for that lame analogy, but it does hold true this week. I've been up late with homework and studying and small groups. The life of an RA seems, at times, to be dominated by meetings and more meetings. Today I have team meeting (the four Hotchkiss RAs and Siona, the RD) from seven to nine, followed by lounge duty from ten to two. Yeah, two in the morning.

This weekend is going to be a long weekend as well. Saturday morning is my team's first football game! One of the biggest things I missed last year in Israel was intramural football. This year, our team is pretty stacked, so we have a good shot at making the playoffs and going all the way. After football, I will continue work on a short story (fiction) that is due on Monday. I'm not especially good at writing fiction, so it ought to be an interesting story. I'm thinking that I will set the story in the Old City in Jerusalem. Lastly, I have to read Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and write a book report about it by Wednesday. The book is 471 pages! Yeah, so lots of sustained hours of reading ahead. That's one of the interesting things about school. This past week I've had NO time to read C. S. Lewis' The Problem of Pain. There is so much reading, that sometimes it becomes too much of a chore. That is part of the reason why I chose For Whom the Bell Tolls, because: 1) I already own it. 2) I've been wanting to read it for some time now. 3) We just read Hemingway's short stories in my Creative Writing class. 4) It is a culturally relevant novel. Actually, it's Hemingway's masterpiece. 5) I know that I will enjoy reading it, even if I have to fly through it.

Well, off to homework and responsibility land.