Friday, November 03, 2006
(8:00 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional:
I confess that the sign-up sheet seems like too much work for me this month. Wolfson will continue to delight some and frustrate others as hatemonger this month, while I will mainly be the one confessing. (Those who are interested in confessing can contact me privately.)I confess that I have gotten through a mountain of work in the last couple weeks and am a little drained as a result. I confess that this weekend will get me past at least one of my AAR/SBL papers, if not both, which will substantially increase my quality of life. I confess that I really don't know what I was thinking when I accepted the invitation to serve on the search committee for the open New Testament position at CTS.
I confess that the thought of travelling stresses me out a great deal. Buying plane tickets, etc., for AAR was a very negative experience for me, and I'm pretty sure that I am going to be utterly filled with dread before the trip, just like I am before every trip, no matter where I'm going. Looking back, this appears almost always to have been the case. I'm not sure why, but it seems to be something I don't have much control over.
I confess that alongside this travel thing, I am starting to observe another type of scenario that seems to recur periodically in my life. I confess that I always act in basically the same way in those situations and that my self-knowledge appears to have no effect whatsoever on the course of events.
I confess that I'm really tired of taking classes and am having trouble coping with the fact that I have to register for next semester. I have three more courses to take to meet my coursework requirements, and part of me just wants to slow down and take one course next semester, but then another part of me would quietly die if I had to extend coursework another semester.
I confess that I need to buy new tennis shoes, but I can't even motivate myself to go out and buy a loaf of bread.
