Hi Folks,
I hope your holidays went well. I had 3 weeks off from school and somehow it went by too fast. For the first part of the break, before Christmas, it was a little boring. Many of my hometown friends were gone to see relatives and other things. But after Christmas things started to pick up. On Dec. 26, I went snow skiing in Paoli, Indiana, with Scottsville church of Christ from Scottsville, KY. The Scottsville church is a church that I used to go to summer camp with. It was fun to be around some old friends and get caught up on what everyone was up to. This was my 4th time skiing, so I am pretty much used to skiing. I skied on many of the intermediate hills. Unfortunately a ski lift that is at the bottom of the”Black Diamond” expert hill was closed. So I couldn’t try it. I had a really great time even though it was exhausting. We got up at 5 amin Scottsville (I had driven up earlier the day before and spent the night with a friend in Scottsville). After skiing all day I didn’t get back home to Mt. Juliet until 2:15am the next day!
After my ski vacation I had a post Christmas party for some of my old high school friends. We had about 17 people to show up. Most people enjoyed it. We had a scavenger hunt where we had 90 minutes to locate many things from the 80’s including a Rubik’s cube, Dukes of Hazzard stuff and a bunch of other things. Tickle Me Elmo was on the list too and to everyone’s surprise someone had one!
My semester went well too. I was pretty satisfied with my grades this semester. After a killer final exam I was thinking I had a “C” in my Macroeconomics class. But my professor must have curved the grades. As far as interesting things that happened this past semester, Lipscomb did have a bomb threat in October. The entire campus had to be evacuated. It was peculiar seeing all 2400 students and faculty gathered by the softball field on the edge of campus. They’ve offered a reward for info on who did it. But to my knowledge they haven’t been caught.
I’ve got another busy semester ahead. I’m taking Quantitative Methods 2 (Bank Math class); Systems Design (Computer Class); American State and Local Government; Public Administration 2; and Holy Spirit; and John, Peter,and Jude (Bible Classes). I’ll also have a 3 hour internship with a state Senator. So that will be a total of 17 hours, not too bad. I’ll be in a graduation ceremony on May 3, but I won’t officially graduate and get my diploma until the first of August. Then I’ll be in the job market. I am a bit apprehensive about graduating. I will be at a turning point in my career. I won’t know where I’ll be or what I’ll be doing a year from now.
I hope that we can keep in touch throughout the school year. My e-mail address is the same. So please send me some mail. I can’tguarantee that I’ll be able to get to all of it, but I’ll try. I hope that you have a great new year and a good semester. See you soon.