Thursday, December 11, 2003
(1:30 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Body Functions are Body Functions
Kari and I are having trouble with our pets' body functions. The dog (which I count as Kari's pet) just pissed on her pants, and the cats (which I count as my pets) have spent the whole weekend pooping on every available surface. Soon the dog will be moving out, along with Kari, but the cats will remain my problem. If anyone wants to keep a kitten until May, let me know. Because the people who own the kitten are apparently mentally retarded, they think they're going to find someone willing to take in the cat for five months, then give it up. (I don't mean to be offensive to any mentally challenged readers of this page, or any of my readers who know and love those who are mentally challenged -- in fact, I believe that a genuinely mentally challenged person would probably still be able to figure out that that is not an effective method for taking care of a cat, and indeed would probably not attempt to keep a cat in an on-campus apartment in which cats are not allowed.)
All of those concerns fade into the background, however, when I consider my joy at the prospect of not having to go back to CTS until February. I'm glad I will be going back. I'm glad for the opportunity to work with outstanding scholars and to move seamlessly to other schools to take classes that interest me. I'm glad that I could potentially be taking only one theology course out of four while being enrolled at a theological seminary. I'm thankful for the new friends I've met in the course of the semester. At this moment, however, at 1:21 AM, I am equally thankful that this semester is over. I've done enough deconstructing of homophobia for now. Especially after finishing the final paper I still have to finish, I will have had quite enough of Bonhoeffer. I've had more than enough of half-informed lectures about the history of Christian thought, especially given that I already know about the history of Christian thought. I'm glad that I won't have to read two or three books of the Old Testament a week.
I'm ready to move on, probably to Derrida, globalization, Karl Barth, and Marion's take on Heidegger. Hopefully by next year, I will have phased out theology altogether. I will graduate in the spring of 2005 with a Master of Arts in Whatever the Hell Classes I Wanted to Take. Thank you, CTS.
This is probably the best post you're going to get out of me until Monday evening, when I will have completed and turned in my paper on Bonhoeffer's use of the concept of objective spirit in Sanctorum Communio, Cost of Discipleship, and Letters and Papers from Prison. If I don't post until then, don't be surprised. I'm sure my loving co-bloggers will be able to stand in the gap for me as necessary. Also, since part of my "technique" of writing papers includes spending hours upon hours with Word open in the background while I browse the Internet, I may very well produce some of my greatest blogging achievements to date. It's really hard to say.