Psychological Assesment

This past Tuesday was a pretty busy day. Formation for Ministry group, church history, then speech class. We had an exercise where everyone had to tell a story for 30 sec and it should for the most part flow. When it was my turn, it involved some doberman-like dog creature that turned human who enjoyed burlesque dancing and had wishes from a genie and was being attacked by a squid. The person before me left off at "he pondered a philosophical question". So I started "and that philosophical question was whether he should eat the squid or let it go." then I just rambled a bunch of stuff. After class I had a psych appt. for about an hour and half, then i had a library training session for another hour and half.

The interesting part of that day was the psychological assessment. The psychologist asks all the normal questions and he asks if I have ADD and proceeds to ask me ADD questions. And so later on I get into my drug issues, and he asks if I've done hard stuff and I told him I'm sure I haven't. So at the end he tells me that he looked at my test and said that pretty much my mind was everywhere. I guess I really am messed up in my head.

Well it's been almost three weeks into classes and I'm really enjoying them, except maybe the speech class. Properly learning about the Trinity in systematic theology and man do I really know nothing. Early church history is very informative, there is a definite difference compared to modern North American Christians. Got my psych eval test tomorrow and supposed to sign up
for a subsequent date later for an interview with a psychologist I think.

Life in Grand Rapids seems pretty easy going. It seems like a slow going town and is almost
a bubble society of Christianity in the U.S. Weather right now is great. It did drop down to 40 and 50s last week but has since warmed backed up. I don't think I have sweated yet since I've been here.

On a personal note, I've tried to surgically remove a woman from my life in hopes of being able to focus and more soul searching. Maybe I'm just running...I hope this doesn't backfire in my face where I just go insane or something. God help me.

Labor day and school

Summer has officially ended here in West Michigan. People are headed back to school including me. Went to the outskirts of Detroit the other day to get some furniture at an Ikea store. They got a cafeteria in there that serves some pretty good stuff. Got home at night to assemble a dinner table, a POANG chair, and some other stuff. All that is left that I want is a couch and maybe a an HDTV. I doubt I'll have much time to watch much TV except for football on saturday. A lot of people are sad that Michigan got beat by Appalachian State. I don't feel sad for them at all.

I had two classes today. Church History I and Gospel communication. A lot of introduction of ourselves in each class. I'm actually glad that I'm not from the greater Michigan area, which seems like half the people are. Class seems somewhat manageable so far. I've got a lot of reading to do and a speech to give next week...what did I get myself into. I guess I just got to hang on to the rollercoaster.