re-oriented

The weekend was indeed wonderful. More wonderful than I'd imagined, actually.

I'm now back in C-U, getting geared up for what is going to be a busy six weeks ahead. I've got to keep up with reading, grade papers, finish the fellowship application, get the U. Chicago application in, find a place to live in Chicago, submit a paper for the Philosophy of Education Society conference (which won't get in, I bet, but I feel I have to try), write a Social Philosophy paper, read about 1000 pages, and write two papers, one on dialogue in religious education and another on philosophical conceptions of dialogue. It looks like a lot when I write it like that, but I think I've got a good plan for the next six weeks, and I think I can get everything done by December 15, which is my deadline, since I'm hoping to go home to Tampa from the 18th to January 2nd (U. Chicago winter quarter starts on January 3rd).

The past month has been disconcerting for me, and I think this past weekend was the full emergence from the disarray I've felt. I feel different somehow--not sure I can place exactly how, but definitely different. And ready to face the next year and a half--I feel I have a better sense of where I am now, where I'm headed, and who I am and want to be.

I'm exhausted. It's time for bed.