My weekly, pathetic journal entry. The end of the month and I’m at the top of page seven. I should be flogged — after the journal I kept in Poland, I feel so guilty about writing so very little. “Guilty” is perhaps the wrong word — I don’t know what the right word is, but I don’t like “guilty.” It’s just a little odd — I feel sad I guess that my life isn’t so filled with activity and interactions as it used to be. I’ve been keeping an extensive journal up to this point because I was in college, then in Poland — lots of interaction with lots of people. Now, few people at work.

That being said, lots of stuff could be written about how things are going at work. First, Friday was our last day in Arlington — tomorrow I take the 86 all the way to Sullivan, then take the Orange Line to Wellington Station. I’ve no idea how long that will take, but it sounds like a slightly easier commute in a way. But I have fewer choices coming home — I must take the 86, so I’ll have to keep track of the time better since it leaves so infrequently at night. Anyway, that’s not the truly interesting event-of-the-week. More significantly — things on the religion course have been shaken up quite a bit. Val, Adam, Kali, Rob, and I had a meeting on Tuesday about the future of the religion course. Adam had finally read the proposed demo chapters and come to the conclusion that we need to write the theme chapters last. And, to a large degree, I now agree. In fact, I’ve proposed — or will — that we finish up the Judaism chapters and market it as A Thematic Introduction to Rabbinic Judaism and clean up the Christianity chapters to be marked as An Introduction to the Life of Jesus as Presented in the Gospels or some similar nonsense and then start all over and write a true introduction to world religions. We can follow the thematic outline/idea set forth at the beginning, but at any rate, I don’t think we’re going to be doing ourselves any good by continuing this project as it stands.

Another decision I’ve made — I’m going to do everything in my power to be working full time with on the tech side within a year. I’m going to talk to Peter tomorrow to see if he’s still willing and desiring such a thing, and if he’d be willing to pay for me to take an intro to Java course. Then I’ll have to talk to Rob, Kali, and Val about this and see if I can get the cliché wheels in motion. The whole religion project is getting to be a nasty mess and I want less and less to do with it. I’ve been working with the Visual Basic editor in Word and Excel and thoroughly enjoying it — I think that’s what I want to do. It might get my personal writing back on track if I’m not spending all day reading and writing about religion as it stands.