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October 18, 2005
Saturday night was the Calvin College Psalm Festival. We started at 5:00pm and rocked the Psalms, 1 to 150, getting done around 1:20am. Overall, I would deem it to have been an interesting and enlightening interpretation of scripture. There were Psalms read - responsively and dramatically; Psalms sang - both from the Psalter hymnal as well as from more contemporary songs; all of Calvin痴 choirs sang Psalm settings; jazz Psalms - spoken and sang; Psalms made into videos and slideshows and other artwork; enough different things going on that at times it was distracting from the Psalm texts themselves. It had been a year in the planning, and one could at the same time tell that it had been planned for a long time, as well as tell that there were some little things that were not planned out - and both the over-plan-ned-ness and the unplanned distractions were distracting. But to see different members of the college community, from all different areas, come together and bring their different gifts for God and the Church - why, that... that was a wondrous thing to behold.
I, myself, had written a song for Psalm 5 which we used last night, and was additionally playing for all of the guitar requiring songs during the first section of the Festival - Psalms 1-53. I知 tired today - but I知 always tired - and it was worth it to stick around to the end of the thing.
Sunday, my housemates and I had house dinner, and a couple of other friends came over. It was nice to be partaking of family tradition again. I am living in a house with three apartments, but we all rent the apartments together, so there are nine of us living together. Whereas last year, five out of six living in the house had the running connection, this year we have four of those five (Tyler, Jesse, Dave, and I - we lost Iverson...), add another runner, Bill, but I知 not running, and our marathon man, Dave, isn稚 running as much either. That still leaves four others who are involved with various other things - like getting married in the spring (Peter), nursing (school - Niel), working and going to school (Jed), and I知 not sure what Nate does... Its good to see eachother when we get the chance.
My back is feeling better than it did last week, with regards to the getting hit by a drunk driver. I知 still trying to figure out all of the other little things about getting my car fixed, but I have peace about it now, and today I talked to an administrator from my school who used to be a lawyer and has a brother who is still a lawyer. It helped me to understand what I need to do; and through the meeting I made some contacts with a couple of people who can advocate for me in this.
I took an exam on the contributing factors to and key players in the Protestant Reformation and the accompanying Catholic Reformation. So far, I have done well on all of my exams, but I never feel very organized, never get out everything I want to say. I'll figure out this school thing again at some point. Earlier in the school year my academic advisor gave me some good advice on this. He said that I was smart and he knew I could do good work, and that I would do work again, but that I didn't necessarily have to hold myself to as high a standard as usual right now. Learn what I want to, but that everyone understood that classes weren't necessarily the most important part of being back at school for me.
I'm leaving my update from last week on the front page for now. Not many people have figured out that I'm updating again. Perhaps if you find out you can tell your friends, or perhaps I'll send an e-mail to all the people I know their e-mail addresses for. Perhaps, but thats not many people, so I might not. Time to go home.
Daryl
Kate Hamera and I after she won the Muddy Buddy with Kate Andersen, August 2005
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