resolution update

if you look back to my january 1st post, this year there are 3 of them

(1) pass my oral qualifying exam.

this one won't be in the bag until it's over with, but i have a date arranged to take it (for many people, finding and scheduling a time when 4 professors are all free is the hardest part). i know just about everything on my syllabus, even if i need to learn many things more in depth. so,... it's going.

(2) read the one year Bible cover to cover.

3 weeks into the year and i haven't missed a day yet. i realized last year that for as much as I used to read the Bible, i really haven't made an effort to do so in years, and i wanted to get back into the habit of doing so. this time around it's actually reading more like a really interesting story instead of a dry history... maybe that's because i'm older by quite a bit than the last time i sat down and tried to read it sequentially, so grammar/occasional big words aren't as much of a distraction. ;) at any rate it's going well... as of last night's reading, in the old testament, joseph revealed himself to his brothers in egypt when they came in search of grain during a big 7 year famine... in the new testament, jesus just fed 5000 people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. pretty dramatic, eh? ;-)

(3) lose 40 more pounds.

this takes time, but...

here's me yesterday after church:



5 pounds down since new years, which is nice, since i had stayed put since about thanksgiving at the same weight.

10 more pounds and i won't be "obese" anymore... that's something, right?

here ends the update.

happy monday?