A Girl With a Sword

like a nightingale at a Roman feast

I've been very silent lately and I'll tell you why. It's because they shut down every single computer lab at Covenant this summer and if I want to get on the internet I either have to do it fast in the BEST office over lunch or take my computer up the hill to Covenant after I get off work. So I have been hoarding all of my great thoughts. And now I've forgotten what they were. I've been reading a lot, reading Madeleine L'Engle and Charles Williams. I'm reading Williams' The Greater Trumps right now and finding it a bit painful how in the midst of strange magical happenings he is trying to cram his message of love down my throat. I read some of the Dune series earlier this summer and I'll probably be getting back to that soon. I've also been trying to figure out what to write about in my SIP. I think I'm going to write something about mythology so I'm reading some Joseph Campbell. I've always been interested in myths and I used Joseph Campbell in a paper I wrote in high school that I really enjoyed and I always meant to come back to him. I bumped into The Power of Myth in McKay the other day while I was searching for a purpose for my SIP so I thought I'd see if it helped.

I'm back in Nebraska for a few days, visiting my family and the Omaha zoo (an amazing place, enough to make visiting Nebraska worthwhile).