Aerobic blunder

I'm trying to keep my body moving because I spend so much time on my butt these days, with Greek flashcards or pages of Greek sentences to translate. So, I decided to do a little aerobic dance in my room, knowing that I have no roommates above me and (I thought) nothing in the basement below me. Imagine my surprise when, a couple of minutes into my wildly flailing about along with dBa's "3-D" from the bubble cd, I hear a knock on the door.

"Hi ... I'm from the offices beneath your room and all we can hear down there is BOOM ... BOOM ... BOOM ... BOOM ..."

Gak.

Old newsletters

For those who may be interested, our home church in Bellevue, Cross of Christ Lutheran, has a link on their outreach site to all our newsletters to date. You know, in case you wanna chuck the paper copy and always be able to refer back to one if you forget what's going on with us.

Independence Day

We had class anyway. After class in the afternoon, I worked out for a bit before getting down to studying. I'm finding I can study longer if I have a television on. Like, I have a ready diversion available to keep me from disappearing into my studies. And I have a constant awareness of how much time has passed so I can remember to eat, drink or move about every time a show changes. Didn't work as well later in the evening when I was watching Windtalker. That was surreal. I could hear sporadic fireworks going on outside while there were people plowing up on my screen. I don't normally watch war movies because they affect me too much, emotionally. But somehow this seemed like an appropriate movie to be watching on this day. I was discomfited and that was how I should feel.

The linguistic element of the plot was vivid as well. The code (Navajo language) was valuable to the military endeavor, it's speakers less so. People are more important than projects. Must remember that.

Prepositions

Visited Providence Lutheran Church in the morning, a small historic church about a 1/2 hour outside of Columbia, SC, in Lexington. Spent the better part of today studying the Greek prepositions. There just no easy way to learn them, man. I had to make up nonsense sentences that contained the basic meanings with embedded references to the case they go with. Here's an example:

• I met with a gentleman after I was accused : "meta" means with when used with a noun in the genitive case but it means after when used with a noun in the accusative case.

Big test

We had our first comprehensive test this morning. I was the first one done, likely because most of the material was review for me. I'm thinking next week may be different as the material covered in the afternoon was not as readily retrievable from my brain. I must not have learned it as well last time.