So I’m back from the exhausting world of Faculty/Staff meetings!  I can’t believe it was two whole days without Xanga…frankly, you guys are WAY more interesting!

First of all, I’m very tired! Getting up at 6:00 am with an absolutely-no-wiggle-room schedule is hard when you’re used to a little more leisure. But I was out of the house by 7 (or a tad after) both days, so I was never late.  Unfortunately, I didn’t get to sleep until almost 11:00 on Monday night, then I made 2 trips to Cedarville on Tuesday (one at 7 for the meetings, then home around 3:30 to get Eric for the dinner, then left at 5 to be back for the evening’s dinner, etc.). We didn’t get home until 10:30 on Tuesday night, then up again at 6:00.  By the time I got home yesterday, I was just plain beat.  So we did nothing exciting last night (I read most of the evening) and both of us were in bed at 9:00.  How lovely!

The meetings themselves have been worse, but they’re never great.  I did get to sit with Cyndi Messer regularly, so we had a goot time entertaining each other!  The speaker talked about racial reconciliation from a biblical perspective which was much more interesting than I was expecting. She was a very good speaker, and her principles are applicable to all forms of reconciliation, not just black/white.  So that was good.  Meetings on Tuesday were more CU-focused, so there was important information, but it wasn’t thrilling by any stretch!  Glad that’s done…

Eric is in Minneapolis today for another 1-day business trip.  He had to fly out at 7:00 am again, so he left about 5:30 to get to the airport.  Good thing, too, since the foiled terrorist plot they announced this morning probably means that the airports are going to require tons of patience to get through all the lines and such!  But I’m glad they caught the guys, too.  Not that Minneapolis was likely to be a target…but it’s the principle of the thing!  Anyway, he’s supposed to fly back in around 6:00, so we’ll see if he makes it this time!

And, as a final thought, I think “foiled” should not be used to describe real-life situations…

And Kim…here is the website about recycling (I read some recent posts this morning) in Columbus (http://www.swaco.org/).