I had a meeting with my thesis promoter.

AGAIN.

I didn't prepare for it for more than an hour and a half.

I thought he was going to yell at me again because I clearly didn't get it.

I thought he was going to fire me.

We had a great chat about Augustine, and I left with a very clear picture of what he wanted.

He only rubbed his forehead in frustration once. I feel like that's a new record, especially with no yelling involved.

I stayed up all night.

My thesis promoter didn't show up.

I sent him an e-mail.

Maybe we'll meet eventually.

Brennan so tired and full of crying because he went and photocopied articles and the bright lights hurt his eyes. His very very dry eyes.

I am screwed.

It's 4 am.

My notes are terrible.

I have a meeting with my thesis advisor at 11am.

I have class at 9am.

I am drowning in articles and secondary sources.

In other words, I'm currently living out my thesis. This happens so often with philosophy lately that it's starting to make me motion-sick. I write an exam on Spinoza, all I can do is think like Spinoza for a week. I sit in a class on psychoanalysis, everything is a cigar. No, wait, the other way. Whatever. The point is that I want to have a good meeting, but I'm not ready. I know what I have to say, but I know it can't be ready by 11am, even if I did feel like working on it.

I'm now going to go and write something about how smart I think I am.

Please excuse me.

Thesis meeting consisted in

Him telling me he didn't like it
come back next week

And, I suck.

ad infinitum, 15 minutes.

I think I will be happy if I can have a thesis meeting where I don't manage to get my thesis promoter into an apoplectic rage. Because I bring out the best in him. Really.

Although my friends tell me that if I listen and do what he says, that's all that really matters. I think they're right, but I was hoping I had nailed some of what he wanted me to say.

Hit and miss...or, rather, miss, miss, whiff, dislocate arm swinging, go to hospital, more missing, get hit in the nose with the ball, bleed congenially-to-death.

Today I read a really stupid article, and I thought it was going to be great. What a let down.

Tomorrow I have a meeting with my thesis advisor.

It's nine-thirty at night.

I'm exhausted.

I want to go for a run.

I ate too much today.

And I have no idea what I'm going to say because I'm so tired.

WORST POSSIBLE DAY EVER TO HAVE A THESIS MEETING=TOMORROW.

Thank you, thank you.

Now going to cram for thesis meeting.

Sigh. =)

This week I

e-mailed my thesis advisor
read a bunch of articles (I don't remember how many)


Of the current research material left to read I have

five articles
8 books (pieces)
6-8 books chapters I photocopied, maybe three of which I'll use.


Then go photocopy some more articles (about 25-35, I think), and then I get about three or four more books, and then I find some theses in the library, and then that's it. Pretty much half way there.

Today I

finished 2/3rds of 2 Phd applications
read 2 articles
flipped through a book I should really be reading
tore my hair out looking for contact info on the GRE website to get my scores again
ate pudding.


The last was less fulfulling than you would think.

And I really should have made it 2/3rds through ALL my PhD applications tonight.I still have 2 or so more to do. I think I'm dropping SLU as a choice. I was gonna, but no real Augustine scholars there. Instead, the list looks like:

Norte Dame (just because)
Villinova (Without them, no Augustinian Studies journal)
KU Leuven (Because I have very good reasons for not wanting to move, like, if I can, the funding is great and so are the people...generally speaking)
Vanderbilt (Which would be a change of major, but a sweet, sweet program, and a REALLY great promoter, I think. Happiness ensues.)

So, that looks like the final list. (Aka. I just don't have the effort to do more, and as it is, I'm going to have to ask for people to write me four reference letters as is. That's stupid. But I have three references, I think.)


Which reminds me, I need to make a small document stating how great I am and what I have been doing this past year and blah blah blah. Geez, boredom. I hate this stuff. But, as long as I get in somewhere and there is money included, sounds alright to me.

I had to cancel a meeting with my thesis supervisor because my boss signed me up for working all day in Brussels. In other words, I'm starting to let other things affect my thesis.

This really wears me out. I REALLY want to be doing nothing else but working on my thesis. But, I also need to apply for PhDs. I don't know what to do with myself sometimes, honestly.

Theatre is going alright, although I don't know where I'm going to find the time to do anything other than write a play, work, go to class, read for my thesis. I think it's all going to be the same as when I lived in Canada. It's strange, because now that I feel like I have my life in Canada back. I can't decide if I like it or if it's unhealthy. I'm not sure, but it's certainly culturally against the grain, I'd say.

Today

I started 3 Phd Applications

Man, I hate it. It's so many numbers and I can never keep track of anything. The amount of time I am going to have to spend to finish these is painful. I'm really exhausted, so I don't think I'll get to anything else on my list, not even articles, maybe just some letters I've been meaning to send. A couple things here and there. But I work tomorrow at 9am. Eh heh. Sigh. In Liege.

But I think I'll work on a couple things artistic this weekend. Just for me. To make me feel better. Especially since I feel sick. =)

Today I


read 5 articles, 3 of which were useless.

Yay.

=)

I was supposed to do PhD stuff, but between being stupid in random ways, and being tired and kinda sick, and needing nap every two minutes, there just wasn't time. It's killer, really it is. But since I don't work tomorrow, I will do them then.

Today I read

5 articles

wrote up my final draft of my proposed thesis

Sent my thesis advisor an ultimatum to meet with me next week

included the attachement for him to read. (Le stress.)


So, yes, now I'm making him read things that he probably thinks are useless. I'm sure it' s a waste of his time, but my grads studies reference books says that an outline really helps to clear up any big misunderstandings at the start of the thesis, so it seemed like a good idea at the time. I'm of the opinion that no matter what I say, I'm not sure I'll impress him. On the bright side, I had a reason to be suspicious of my writing...I spelled 'office hours' as 'offive hours' in my e-mail to him. I nearly died because I almost DIDN'T spell-check it before I sent it.


I honestly don't know how grad students survived before spell checking. I'm assuming they had real brains. I know mine's fake.

In other news, I'm going to bed. I'm so tired it hurts. Again.

Yesterday I

Read some...stuff....mostly grad school PhD stuff. I e-mailed about 5 people about doing a possible PhD with them before I realized I had made a critical mistake of leaving out a 'that' at some point in one of my e-mails. On the bright side, it wasn't a GLARING error, and really, I did look it over several times quickly to scan for errors. It's much better that I thought it would be as an e-mail, really. Also, three people have already replied!!!!!!! But I have no idea what they said yet. I don't really want to look, but then I do. I swear, it's like wondering if there is a boogey-man in your closet. I probably shouldn't talk about closests...ok, similie over. And I just found out what a pataphor is. Definitely not a pataphysician.

OK. Back to writing e-mails for Janus Theatre.

Today I read

3 articles

I would have read a 4th but I forgot half of it at home and brought scrap paper instead
Lame.

Also, I have books majorly overdue.


Also lame.

Today I

Photocopied articles, many of them that were photocopied badly the first time, about 9 of them, and I read

The Myth of Augustine Being a Great Sinner
A Response article on O'Connell's Work on Augustine's Early Theory of Mankind.

Titles sort of mixed up, don't remember them, don't want to open a document or search the web for a title.

Oh, and I typed up four pages of biblo, although it's not hard, since most of it is from the same journal. Crazy. I feel silly about that, but I guess I can't help it if no one wants to write about my guy. That's academics for you...it's all in a central field, and then that's all. =P

Tough stuff. Especially when it's so easy to find the bib info on the web, since the journal that I'm using publishes all their info on the web in pretty much copy + paster-able quality so that I can do all the biblio really quickly. It almost feels like cheating...except that I know that I'm saving time that is often wasted on details like this.

I'm falling asleep at the computer again. Time for bed, yes?

This week I

read somewhere between 8-12 articles.

I am 2 articles below what the average should be, but it's alright because a large portion of this week and last was spent photocopying.

Today I go and see my promoter and tell him to sign yet another useless thesis form, because I am not ready to say anything significant yet. While I do have ideas, I'm just not at the point where I can articulate myself as if my thesis is already finished.

Today I

photocopied 100 pages worth of secondary reading, all of it from Augustian Studies.


I have about 2 more journals which I plan to ravage from 1970 onwards, and then I have to start picking through dissertations. I am going to have to read all of this as well. Eh heh. Go me.

AUGH! I JUST CREATED A TABLE OF CONTENTS AND IT SUCKS! AUGH!

In other news, I had another wash over feeling of "There is so much to do, my eyeballs are going to bleed from the pain of it all." That happened while I sort of skipped around to a grad website and e-mailed them about applying. Yay.

I think I will go and get some books after I send some more e-mails to grad schools, and then go read some.

OK,

I MAY have an idea about a proposed outline...here's my first attempt

-I want to say that Augustine is wrong in a certain respect because Augustinian thinking about sin and evil remove the goodness completely from human nature. Since we are made from nothing, human nature basically is nothing. While this makes sense when taken to its extreme, it's still a little strange. How can we talk about any sort of goodness at all if it's all grace? Augustine seems to change his mind about the effectiveness of grace and the effectiveness of free will later in his life.

-I want to say that Augustine's change in thinking happened because of battles between the Manicheans (which the original thesis of evil is founded) and the Pelagians (where it gets a bit too practical and not exactly solved, either) and that he could never quite resolve the problem because the Pelagians were asking a question about the human being and its nature, and this has to do with Augustine's thinking on how he thinks original sin is transmitted.

-From this I want to glean that every evil for Augustine is a moral evil, and that this means that evil is a justified concept for Augustine, and an explainable one. I think I need to look up some stuff on Augustine and theodicy, here, since I am wondering whether or not people would consider Augustine proto-theodicy, or perhaps even having a theodicy of his own. This seems strange to me, (my gut instinct tells me) but I'm not sure.

-As well, I want to say that Augustine makes sin a moral concept, and evil a theological concept. This is what will actually require an argument, the rest is merely historical interpretation of philosophical disputes and texts. This would be my one thought, if it can be called that, dealing with the problems and ramifications of how every form of sin is a form of moral evil. Other than that, I don't think I need much.

So, maybe my thesis will look like this:

-stages of Augustine's thinking, rely on texts that point out the changes in his thought (that article in the bookmarks should help.) This needs to be precise, and therefore briefer than what I think.

-Augustine on evil from a Biblical(Starting with the Garden of Eden, but moving elsewhere), theological (the Garden of Eden), moral (lying, for example) point of view.

-From the moral stage, we can see that every form of evil is a moral form of evil, and that this means evil itself is explainable only theologically, since evil requires first origins, which Augustine locates in the Myth of the Fall (Might need to look at Ricoeur again, here). Sin, however, is the human problem of badly willing, and this makes sin a moral problem, not a theological one. By shifting the grounds like this, it is easy to make the link that every form of evil is a form of moral evil, since the explanation of why evil happens, has a moral cause, but that every form of sin, um......um.....ok, I started at my computer screen for about 7 minutes blankly. We'll figure this part out in a bit. Back to writing and reading.

I started working on my thesis again, after an extremely long hiatus, while I tried to get everything figured out for my job and stuff. I started writing on September 18, 2006, and I wrote about a page for the preface-esque like part.


Today, however, I JUST REALIZED WHAT PROF. STEEL WAS TALKING ABOUT. I should feel smart, but OH MY GOSH DO I FEEL STUPID. IT TOOK ME 6 MONTHS OF READING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT PROF. STEEL WANTED ME TO PUT IN MY THESIS. THIS IS GOING TO BE MUCH, MUCH EASIER.

The argument goes as follows. The Manicheans say that there is a substantial difference between good and evil, and Augustine claims that the Manicheans ask the wrong question first, starting with 'where is evil' instead of 'what is evil.' Augustine starts with asking what is evil, using the framing and explanation of this question to refute the Manicheans, and eventually we come to the idea that evil is a corruption of our natures, because we are made from nothing, not directly of God's nature. So our nature is from nothing, not from God directly. So, corruption is natural, and therefore part of our natures. This means that corruption is purposeful, and as Augustine says in the 'Against the Fundamental Epistle of Manichaeus' corruption is used to chastise sinners, and therefore every evil is a form of moral evil, since corruption serves the purpose of chastising us and bringing us closer to God. In other words, corruption is meant to bring us back to God, every time. This is huge because this means the question of evil becomes one of finding meaning in evil, and this could mean the beginning of theodicies, the start of the idea of Heidegger's idea of truth, everything. This has huge ramifications for how to think about the history of philosophy, and what connects where. This not only solidifies the link from Plato, to Augustine, to Descartes, to Derrida/Heidegger, but almost dwarfs Plato in creating the first real link of philosophy since ancient Greek philosophy. This is because the problem of evil has its first real start in Augustine, and this means that philosophy ever after is indebted to this sense of 'sensible moral evil,' which has shaped centuries of philosophy. This could mean that the real start comes from Augustine, and through Augutinian eyes, we look back to Plato to re-examine these texts. For surely, every problem of looking at Greek philosophy has been a problem of somehow separating the Christian lens from the Platonic lens. And who created this fusion and confusion better than Augustine? Whether this is good or bad is hard to say, since it's had such a huge impact on history, I guess, but man, nothing like figuring out way too late that your thesis advisor is saying things that make perfect sense and that you're a complete dummy.
Oy.

OK, back to reading.

I have done nothing this week, but I have managed to go out with Ralph and met his friends, all of which were very nice. I realized there was a large part of me missing, and I was slowly killing it, and that was slowly killing all the good things in me. I was too much in the culture I hated, and that hated me. So, it's sort of a new day of sorts, and while I have LOADS of work to do, I have managed to start reading a little bit of Tears of Derrida, so go me. (I don't know if Derrida is going to be in the thesis or not, probably a little, I think.) I also forgot what being fresh meat is like. Eh heh. Yeah. I'm not sure how I feel about that...but I am sure how I feel about myself and what I want. Anyways, time to check my e-mail. It's my birthday in two days. ;D

Today I

Organized my reading for the next week
and added one article for my tech essay


because I'm lame.

Today I read

On the Sermon on The Mount Book II



Which means I am done it, and that I should have been able to do it in one sitting, but this week I can feel the need of pressing matters, like my rent, my job prospects (need to phone Claire tomorrow about a job) helping people move, moving into my ACTUAL room upstairs in a few days. (I guess I could start moving it now, but...) and the fact that we are 'supposedly' putting on a play in September, but there is no one in charge of it. So, technically, we're screwed there, but like I said, it's not my fault. Not put in charge, can't really get a hold of Colin, and I know he's busy so I don't want to bug him, but. But. Who knows. We'll have to see what happens. I'm just glad I'm reading for my thesis again. That means I'm making progress, however little. Even if it is totally lame the amount I can concentrate today. But, I'm doing more work nowadays, so it's understandable. (French and Dutch will eat me alive.)

OK, I'm going to go do something else. Like be productive or something.

Today I read


Book I "On the Sermon on the Mount"

I'm lame.

Today I read

On Two Souls Against the Manicheans
On the Profit of Believing


Today was a bad work day. Ugh. And I ate too much. Ugh. I managed to finish a little, but definitely not everything I had planned. Tomorrow is going to be hard...going to try and finish 'On the Sermon on the Mount tomorrow'...I really need to start working on that essay again...maybe a little later tonight....hmmm....too much candy...ugh, why did I buy gummi candies??? I don't even like them that much. Although I got a lot of other nice food, and got to run into someone today (Sean) so that was nice...good to have people contact. Also, I was sort of 'ugh' after my 25 lap run. Over the next two weeks I should be able to do thirty five...I think I should start timing my runs. All I know is that even at the victory lap I was able to burn it better than I have ever been able to before, and I had been running for almost...well, maybe an houlf and a half straight, so that's something, and the run home wasn't that hard. I need to start getting to bed earlier, though, there's so much to do...and that play....I have to write it, or no one else will, and then we'll be stuck...but it's also not really my fault, so I don't know what I should do. Yikes. Nothing like being semi-responsible for something that is one-hundred percent blameworthy.

I have no clue how I'm gonna lose this weight, either. Yoy. OK, so work on essay later tonight! Maybe!

Today I read

On the Trinity books 13-15


The Trinity is finally DONE. Ugh. I never want to have to do that again. Augustine is really starting to get on my nerves, splicing hairs for fun, and I KNOW it's for fun. This wouldn't have taken me so long, but I just finished moving, that took about a week, and then Karen came for four days, and I've just recovered and gotten things back in order (especially the sleep, I can't believe how tired I was.) Anyways, I'm totally ready to eat now, I'm so hungry. I just finished running 25 laps yesterday, so 35 is next on the list, I have no clue how I'm going to make it. I think my body wants more food now that I am back on my regular schedule, and especially since I'm going to be running longer, harder. But I think my legs and lungs are getting stronger, so that makes me happy. Whew. About and hour and half of french tonight. I will try and get back on track with that essay...I might just try and do it in one or two goes, and then limit my Augustine readings to smaller packages on those days...we'll have to see.

Time to eat.

Today I read

The Trinity Books 11-13

Whew! Two more, then onto either the Confessions, or something else. I'll have to see. I'm going to lose about a week and a half in the move, I think, from moving into Montseratt's bedroom, and then back into 'mine,' and fixing mine to the way I like it. (It will be small. Sigh.) Tomorrow's going to be rough because I have so much to do, and the last two books are about 80 pages, more than I've been reading lately. OK, I'll have to find some way to make it work out so I can be done before Sunday. =D

I have a lot of work to do on the Tech Essay, I think I really need to get on that, and I have a lot of work to do in grad studies research, so maybe I'll do a little bit more of that this weekend.

Yesterday I

found a piece of paper that had some of the early notes I had made for the tech essay (THANKFULLY. I was running out of ideas.)

Today I

Read the Trinity books 7-9


Today was really hard because I'm in the middle of packing, and cleaning, and studying, and buying birthday presents, and can't stop thinking about said date, and want to contact said person, but know I should take it slow, not fast, and I can't help it, emotional wreck, emotional wreck.

Boy, this sure could put a damper on my studies, hey?

Today was also hard because Augustine kept speaking in riddles about mind, love, and knowledge, and about how to represent the Trinity, and about how to properly think about the Trinity versus how not to think about it. Hard stuff, and it was only 38 pages, took me as long as some days with 90 pages. Not nice.

OK, well, I should do some languages, here.

Today I read

The Trinity Books 4-6


I really should have read more, but, as per usual, I got side-tracked, and my brain wouldn't work, and I was really tired today. I'm almost positive I will need to re-read book 6 because there looked to be some important stuff in there, but I couldn't discern any of the last book because it was in reference to Hilary and an 'unnamed authour,' which means I have to use secondary reading to make sense of this. I might get a 'The Trinity' for dummies book out of the library to read in conjunction with reading this. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. =D

This week will be bad for workload because I'm moving a lot of stuff. Great. *Grin* I start tomorrow. Which is good, because it's good to be around people, especially my new house mates. I think this will keep me saner than before, hopefully help me work better. I will try and keep up with things, though. Hopefully I can start to get ahead, since according to my schedule, I'm already starting writing now, while I was supposed to be reading secondary sources through July. What I realized was that I didn't make any time for reading PRIMARY material closely because I assumed that I would have it down pat once my research paper was done. Oh, woah to my stupidity. Sigh. Anyways, I MIGHT be able to be finished by August, early September, reading primary, and then I can start on secondary, and I still have to read Being and Time this summer. Augh. I'm a SLACKER. But I know if I try to work faster, I'm going to do worse for myself, like today, when I tried to rush the last 15 pages (which turned out to be the meatiest, dang it.) and I wont absorb anything but random stuff. Also, I had a date today, so it, uh, kinda occupied my mind. Because I'm like that. It kinda still is occupying my mind because it went so well, which I'm now suspicious it went well for me, less than stellar for them. Argh. Dates are difficult. So it life in general. *Grin* I'm happy, even if I never see the person again, I'm glad I had such a nice night. Dates are usually terrible for me.

I need to get a bike.

Yesterday I read

The intro essay by Henry Chadwick to the Confessions

and today I read

On the Trinity Books 1-3


I have been kinda out of it. I'm sleepy today because I woke up at 5:45 because of itching. So I really, REALLY skimmed these books. However, these are only preliminary and peripheral to my thesis, so I don't feel so bad. Although, really, I should be working harder. It's 9 pm, and I started around 5 pm or something like it, so 4-ish hours of work isn't too bad, right? Right?

Yeah. More is necessary.

The day before yesterday I read

Letters 232-269 (including letter 144)

Yesterday

I collected some lists for possible secondary source material, and found and made a chronological list of Augustine's works. It's too bad I didn't find the list until AFTER I had made up my own list, which took a really long time, and that was pretty much my day because I was so annoyed. And tired.


Today I read

The Soliloquies (Books I and II)

I really didn't do much today, but I just wasn't feeling it today, and I also looked at a possible university to do a PhD at, and added to my list of possible secondary source material.

You know, this just isn't going as fast as I want it, but at least it's GOING somewhere.

Mostly downhill. Grr.

Today I read

Letter 212-231


I got novels out from the library. Don't see a lot of work happening until they are finished because I'm totally absorbing them. That's pretty much why I'm so tired today. (Although cleaning the kitchen until 12:30am didn't help.)

So, I think tomorrow I will try and read 100 pages or so. We'll see what happens.

Yesterday I read

Letters 185-211
a couple pages of a book on postgraduate research

Today I read

Letters 212-231


Yesterday was really hard because I have pulled an all-nighter, and boy was that silly. Today was really easy because it was only 31 pages of reading, but still I couldn't focus very well because I was all tired from running a bunch of errands today. I really need my bike. Yeah. I also just got back from England on Monday, so that it why there have been no updates for a couple of days. I need to start working on the tech essay again, but I have a feeling I'll need to read some Heidegger on technology which is at the library before I can finish it. I have been thinking about what I want to say, and I realize that I need to narrow it a little bit so as not to be too scattered because I keep thinking I want to talk about the internet, but there's something to be said in terms of information and structure, and I can't decide which is more vital, yet. It will probably include pictures, I imagine, just like my TV essay (Which I CAN'T believe I lost. Sigh.) and so I will have to think about that.

Anyways, I just got a library card today. Yay! I will post that on my other blog.

Today I read
Letter 146-180

Egads, this was long and took a long time. It's so terribly hot here that I can't hardly sit and read without sweating buckets, which is most distracting. It took me until 10pm to finish. Ugh. Taking a day off was NOT a bad idea, because of how important most of these letters were, and if I had tackled them yesterday after having four hours of sleep, I would have been totally brain-dead, so it's good I waited, but my eyes kinda hurt from staring at the computer all day. =P

I am still thinking about the tech essay, and although I have written anything up about it, I wonder whether I am anti-Hediggerian in my view on technology, and yet still against it. I can't decide, but I fear I may have to read some of what Heidegger says about technology so I don't get blind-sided with this info.

OK, later days.

Read Letters 126-145

These ones were pretty darn interesting. Some stuff about Donatism, a little about evil and free will, and a really interesting bit about perjury.

I should really type up some more stuff for the tech essay, but it's 10pm, and I just don't feel like it. Also, I need to do about fourteen other things which I can't seem to get the desire to do.

It's going to be a long week. =)

Letters 100-123


I skimmed letter 122 because I was pretty bored by this point. I really had to force myself to finish because I just wasn't interested and because it's the weekend, and I can't decide whether I 'deserve' the weekends off or not.

I also need to start thinking about what grad schools to apply to, and look into studying for the GRE.

AUGH! TOO MUCH TO DO!

LOL.

Letters 90-99


Today is a slow day because I'm really, really tired, and I woke up way too early for reasons I don't understand, and I think am I going to bed early tonight. However, I got a job offer, so that's nice. Hopefully it works out.

Today I

read Letters 63-89
Typed up some notes for the tech essay


The letters look like less, but actually, it was 86 pages. Today it was all about Jerome and Augustine, and if I had another lifetime, it would be nice to look at the debate between them on lying, which is so interesting. As for now, I have no desire to pursue it, though. =P

Anyways, I have high expectations for reading and writing, all of which will probably fail miserably. MISERABLY. If I finish the tech essay, I will be ever so pleased with myself. Not that it should be hard. (Har har, I say.)

I was done by about 6pm today! Yay!

Read letters 31-62


Yup, 92 pages. My eyes glazed over around page 45. I skimmed several of them. Boy I'm kinda tired. Well, I didn't get done two sets of letters because I had sleepiness because I stayed up too late. (I still havent' done any languages this week. Not cool.) Augh, I have many errands, and I am not getting done my reading early enough. Sigh. Well, at least I have some of it done.

OK, time to clean.

Today I read Augustine's letters, 1-30.
I also copied and pasted a bunch of Augustine documents from the Web to my computer so I could highlight them in "Da System." (Oh yeah, there's a SYSTEM.)

Some of the language was really, really, excruciatingly painful in the letters, like reading post-modern writers. As you can tell, I really, really want to be reading on my computer when it's so nice outside. =)

I skimmed several of them which did nothing but praise Augustine, but the rest were pretty interesting, dealing with the problems of Anabaptism, Heresy, and Body and Mind, and Understanding and the Imagination.

Tomorrow will be more letters. Hopefully two sets of thirty, which means I'll be able to finish the letters by the end of this week.

That's, uh, perhaps a little too ambitious, but we'll see how I feel.

Today I typed up notes from

Does Evil Have a Cause?-Carlos Steel
The God Who May Be-Richard Kearney
Impossible God-Hugh Raymond Pickard

It took a while, so no Augustine reading. Tomorrow, maybe. I think that the stuff about Derrida will be useful, although I know Kearney isn't, even though he has a nice line here and there. Prof. Steel article is probably something I should read again. Here's me betting I probably will not have the energy to do it and I could have really used it later. Like my finals and my reading schedule. Yeah. That went badly.

OK, time for a run. =)

Today I start my thesis blog. Anything to say, feel free to say it. This will probably be very, very uninteresting, but a good way for me to log my progress.

Cool.