I have a new favorite hobby -- driving in heavy rain! It was raining so hard yesterday morning that the snow seemed to be flying up in a fog. That made quite it hard to drive, of course, but it was SO BEAUTIFUL!!! *cries*

Anywaye... yeh. I've been thinking... how did I agree to this insane schedule? On Wednesdays alone, I have to leave work early to get to COD right on time or late, depending on when I can get out of work, only to have to leave class early to get to church orchestra late, depending on when I can get out of class. It's in these 4PM to 9:30PM cycles that I start to wonder about myself.

Well, I guess I'm holding up so far. The main thing that bothers me is the extra-curricular stuff that I'm always fretting about in my margins, whenever those are. Like the youth orchestra I'm to be heading up this year. Once upon a time, I had enough free time to be able to write and arrange music for these kids! Now, I can barely type out an email to them, and I find myself a bit nervous about everything. I have to keep reminding myself that indeed, it is God's children, and God's music, and God's people in the church and nursing homes, not mine; and that the whole point is that I need to believe that I can't do it myself, I need God to be in charge. Breathe, Vic, breathe...

I haven't given up on the resolution yet, but I have had to make up some 20 chapters in the afternoons already. It's just as difficult as I'd imagined; still, I think this is the way to go, since I ought to have something forcing me onward into getting to know this letter of God to us all. I'll have to say that the book of Genesis is pretty interesting so far, and I'm noticing quite a few things that I don't remember from the last times I've been through it (probably because my brain can only hold so much). I have SO MANY questions, more than ever; some of which I'll be taking over to studybibleforum.com (not really a forum, just an awesome, happy place where people come to answer your questions ^_^), some of which I might try to look into myself. The Bible -- it sure doesn't gloss over the stories of the good guys, does it? I think what Genesis has taught me so far is that humans, for all their rotten ways, can still be used by God to do amazing things.

This brings me to another thing I've been pondering: last week, Weien and I were hanging in one of the COD cafeterias, when we realized that the group next to us was, in fact, engaging in theological debate, with Bibles opened. As it happened, it was two Church of God-ists who believed in absolute interpretation, and two of more liberal faiths. One side held all kinds of uncommon beliefs that stemmed from taking the Bible word-for-word; the other was certain that this holy text was not to be soaked in so exactly, but studied and thought over, being possibly different for each individual. After we had joined them, and the former two had left, and we had had a few words with the remaining, we finally came to the conclusion that, what is the point of such quibbles? It's mainly about obeying God and doing the right thing!

And we will do the right thing, like go to class now, we cried, as we separated into different hallways.

=D Thanks to Wongeth, Ka-Chan, and Es, and Sparkie too, for your comments.

So here you go... a bit of orangeness for '05 ^__^. I don't feel too good about the design (almost junked the whole thing at one point), so if anyone has some advice, I'd like to hear it. I did get this thing to be cross-browser compatible though, thanks to my Firefox buddies collectively reminding me to do that. The about and bio sections aren't done yet, but I'll be adding to those as I go.

I've resolved to finish reading the Bible by the end of the year, hopefully by reading an equal amount every morning. It's going to be tough, since I've been reading much less in the last few years. I'm also wanting to write something here once every 1–2 weeks. We'll see about that =P.

I'm only taking Chinese 102 this quarter at COD, which isn't what I wanted initially, since it doesn't contribute to an associate's degree. I discovered, however, that me getting a degree isn't too important to my parents, so (after much discussion and some moping around) I decided that it isn't important to me either. Anyway, it's a fun class, with the professor extremely dramatic and serious about the language (at one point, she said something like, "Do not think that one minute will pass by without forced learning!"), and good classmates with which to laugh one's head off. I laughed a lot today. It felt great.