End of the line

This’ll be really short. Everything’s hectic, wringing every last drop out of me like a clothesline in a tornado, and I’ve got three major projects to finish before tomorrow night when I leave for my family reunion. It’s times like this when I remember that “spread too thin” actually does mean something. Physically, I’m fizzled, getting nowhere near enough sleep. Mentally, my brain is creaking with all the stuff that has to get done, frantically trying to sort and re-sort my schedule to keep everything from falling through the cracks. Emotionally, I’m a guy, so I have no emotions. :P Just kidding. Spiritually, I just read John the Beloved’s account of the Crucifixion, and I remembered once again how much I love the New Testament, and I’m good. And I’m planning on studying Biblical Hebrew on the 15-hour drive to this reunion. And hopefully writing a play. (A play! I went to the New Play Project’s performance last night and it was brilliant! I left with my mind abuzz, so excited I was. But more on that later.) Right now I’m burning the midnight oil trying to finish typesetting a family cookbook in time to get it printed tomorrow before we leave. At least I’ll be able to catch up on my sleep on the long ride there.

And just for the record, if it looks like I’m complaining in any of this, I’m not; I’m just blabbing a description of what’s up in my life right now, kind of as an excuse for the more sporadic schedule of my posts lately. And because two full days without posting would be…well…so unlike me. :P

Been there, done that, decided its not for me. What? Spread too thin.
That is what happened last semester while I tried to run an online private school, hold live classes, take elocution with my children and take a full load in graduate school.

I finally got to the state that my brain could not take on another thing and I was sleep deprived. Not good.

I believe I need more space to enjoy the journey. So, I took a lot off my plate. I will not be teaching live classes this fall.

I have done Hebrew. So, you plan to learn Hebrew and sleep at the same time. Interesting, tell me how it worked. I love Hebrew and learning about Hebrew customs. A great book to understand Hebrew customs is Beloved Bridegroom: Finding Christ in Ancient Jewish Marriage and Family Customs by Donna Nielsen (LDS). Aramaic for writing is easy to learn. You start seeing the connections in the ancient Hebrew and Greek languages.
Aleph-Alpha Beit-Beta Gimel- Gamma Dalet–Delta

Enjoy!

I think my problem is that I don’t want to sleep. I mean, I enjoy sleep, and it’s great, but there’s so much I want to do that I avoid sleep as much as I can. Which is a bad idea. (Though I think it’s better to be this way than to be intolerably lazy. But then again moderation is best.)

Hebrew’s on hold for now, but I’ll be getting back to it soon. I hope. :)

[…] So, a month and a half ago I went to my first New Play Project performance, in the courtyard of the JFSB here on campus. It was fairly low-key, with just one row of audience members. I wasn’t expecting much. But I was surprised. The plays were short — roughly ten minutes each — and yet they still made a difference. The short story of theatre, if you will. After the performance they passed around a clipboard asking for people to write down their e-mail and whether they were interested in volunteering, whether that be with playwriting or directing or acting or what have you. I decided then and there to write a play. And nothing happened. (This is not uncommon in my life. :)) […]