"It's sixteen miles to the promised land and I promise you I'm doing the best I can..."

So I've been meaning to write for a few days now, I just haven't had a whole lot to say. But I guess I kind of do now. Life's good, right now. It's been stressful, don't get me wrong, I've sort of reached this place where I am a little bit tired all the time and I don't really realize how tired I am anymore, I just... well, am. The classes that are going to be easy and the classes that are going to be hard have made themselves clear. So far the easiest class I have is my Intro to the Bible class, because all the teacher does is give us all the information we'll need to pass the exam, which I don't really mind, because I am doing more indepth study of the book he gave us, which is a really really cool overview of the bible – very helpful for someone who wants to teach people about God, eh?. I got all the questions right on my first intro to the bible exam, so I'm pretty effing happy about that – but I mean with a bible teacher like Mr. Dixon Kinser, how could I possibly do badly :).
My other classes are really good, but I am not doing nearly as good in them. Spanish... I think for Spanish I just have to learn ALL the words, it's not too hard, I am good at remembering the spelling for words, so that helps, but it's just a lot of new information to keep straight, but in general it's going really well – I had my first Spanish exam today, I think I did alright, I know I could have done better (like known every single answer to every single question, like my intro to the bible course, heh), but I know I will get a decent grade, and I know exactly what I need to study more in depth... conjugation (not to be confused with copulation, click to find out what I'm talking about... don't worry, it's just animaniacs), besides that, I think I did well on it.
Statistics is going to destroy me, in fact I almost gave up on it yesterday because I was just sooo effing frustrated with it, but I think if I just studying my ass off I'll be okay, at least for now. I don't think I'll get an A in the class, but I think I will hopefully get upper C or B, we'll see.
My writing class is actually really cool, my teacher is such an interesting guy, just the other day he was telling us about his time in the army, and how he was the guy with "his finger on the button, it wasn't actually a button... but it was a toggle switch, two in fact", haha. His job, apparently, was the guy who in the event of a major war pushed the button to blow up enemy troops.... oh, yeah, get this, he was in the army during the Cold War, which is ridiculous. Anyhoo, the class will build up in difficulty, so that's good.

I miss teaching kids about God, the only outlet I have is the on campus group called Capture, which I am trying REALLY hard to stay out of a leadership role, just because I know that I will start trying to change it to what I'm familiar with, and I know that I have to let that go, so I'm just showing up and being there, and talking to people. Eventually I'll get involved with music and that'll be good, because, honestly I need some sort of musical outlet and I like using my gifts for that instead of self promotion.

I wrote this song the other day, which is the first song that I've started writing on a while, and... I don't know, I think I'm getting really stuck in this acoustic, folk, indie... rut, and that it's bad, but I don't know, I'm just not sure if I want to get categorized in the way, or maybe it's more that I don't want to get categorized, but I will, because music stems from other music, and it would be nearly impossible to come up with a completely new sound, especially if you listen to as much music as I do. I wrote two songs at the beginning of the year and after a whole lot of work and time (I like to call the process cooking off the fat) I am pretty satisfied with what has come from those two little diddies. I recorded them over the summer with this little recorder that my parents have, and I really do think both of them are really good (I am cocky, I know... but I am not just saying that they are good, I really think they are). I'll hopefully get around to creating a virb.com site for my music pretty soon, just so I have it out there.

All in all, I am enjoying life thoroughly. Chicago's amazing, things are great. I miss people, mostly. Oh! and Portland Brew.... I want to taste the sweet taste of Portland Brew coffee real bad :)
Well this post is long enough as it is. I will bid you all fairwell for now,
peace.