*GASP*

What a day! Two exams is just too much for my health! I'm learning in Fitness and Wellness that stress is physiologically bad for you as well as mentally. I think they should stop giving tests. Haha. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I did fine in both of my exam. The bio lab exam wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. Maybe my studying until 12:45 this morning helped. =) The multiple choice on World Civ was more difficult that it usually is, though, which was irritating. I tend to struggle with the matching and breeze through the multiple choice. Ah well. Thankfully, there was a map for this exam, so there were some free points. Maps are so easy.

Work took us out to dinner tonight. We went to Logan's Roadhouse, where we could throw our empty peanut shells onto the floor. It was great fun. But a word to the wise: only eat 1/2 a hamburger which is made of ground steak. *groan* My tummy hurts. And I didn't even eat the whole thing. I wasn't that impressed with my ground-steak-hamburger. Maybe I should have had them cook it medium instead of medium-well- it would have made it more moist. I'm really starting to like chicken burgers over beef (or steak). It's much lighter on your stomach, and I hear it's better for you as well.

We are entering our last month of the semester. I have lots due this month, so it's going to be crazy. It doesn't look unmanageable, but it will definitely be more hectic.

Something dawned on me today as I was walking back to my dorm. I have found that quite a few people here treat school as their home. They love being here, and they would love to stay here all the time. I don't. It's not that I don't like it here (quite the opposite, in fact), but I am always excited to go home. I get through school so that I can go home. I don't view school as my home, but as a place away from home where I am getting an education, and that I will return home when said education is finished. In the same way, I should feel the same excitement, impatience, and expectancy I feel when going home to SoCal when I think about going to my home in heaven. I should view my whole life as I view school- temporary until I get to my real home. Don't get me wrong: it's not that I don't want to go to heaven. I just don't want to yet. I want to graduate from college, I want to have a career, I want to get married, I want to have kids. I want to experience these things.
I have always "known" to view our life here on earth as temporary. But I have never been able to compare it to anything that I have experienced. But now I have, at least to a small degree. And now I have a greater perspective on anxiously awaiting His coming.
Hopefully you don't think me a heretic*.

Well, I have tons to do now. Meh. Have a great weekend! =)

*a dissenter from established church dogma; especially : a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church who disavows a revealed truth -from Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Apparently Roman Catholics are more prone to heretics than other religions?