I'm still alive

I can hear the crickets chirping in here.

Sorry for not posting much over the last month or so...maybe longer. But here's my update:

Still at WTS, but I've dropped a couple of classes this semester in anticipation of leaving after this year. Very long story very short, the administration here keeps making decisions that I don't agree with theologically and they're making them in ways such that it's become obvious that the school isn't going to be a welcoming place for anyone except for the most conservative Reformed types. A couple more professors are leaving, and because of the newly-articulated theological stances of the school, the prospects of them bringing in profs of equal stature are slim.

So I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do next year. By the time I decided that I couldn't justify staying here after this year, it was too late to apply to Duke Divinity which would probably be my top choice. I've applied to Regent (Vancouver) and Princeton Seminary, but I'm not quite sure if I'd really want to go to either of those places. Honestly, the thing I'm struggling with most right now is wanting to do much of anything. I kind of feel like I'm just drifting and directionless. This whole experience at WTS has made me a little fed up with the idea of seminary, but I'm just not sure what else I would do. I know that I don't want to waste money on a degree that I'm not serious about, so I've thought about taking a year off to work until next academic year when I could apply to Duke.

The whole situation has brought a lot of anxiety into my life which has, in turn, brought up some other issues (apathy, laziness, depression). So I've started going to see a Christian counsellor up here which has been immensely helpful. It's nice to have some sort of outside opinion about what's going on in my brain from someone who's heard a lot of stuff from a lot of people.

I'm still dating Lexie and that's going really really well. She's probably the best girlfriend I could imagine. She's been great throughout all of this and has been patient with everything I've been thinking about. It's pretty tough to imagine leaving WTS and being away from her, but I just can't justify spending $12k a year on classes I don't like just to stay around my friends and girlfriend. Lexie's obviously not too thrilled about the prospect of me leaving, but she's been completely understanding and supportive while I've been making these decisions.

My battery's about dead so I've got to wrap this up. I'll try to post more often in the next week or so. What's going on in y'all's lives? Let's get this blog populated again.