Driving a Video Game
Seriously, driving a Prius for me is like driving a video game. I can watch how my driving (fast, slow, braking a little or a lot) affects my miles per gallon gas consumption, and it's like a game to get a super high score. My high score for our first 100 miles driven is 46.5 (MPG). Surely I can beat that. BTW, we filled the car with gas today and it cost less than $20 to fill it. Beauty from ashes. I hated it when our car died, but I'm having fun now.
I'm teaching a creative writing class at DTS daily for three hours every morning. For the next three weeks I have eleven students who are already writing stuff that makes us dab our eyes or laugh until we ache. I love the community that develops in these smaller classes.
This week I finished the edits on Frappe' with Philippians. Now I need to finish the Kona with Jonah manuscript before May 22. Then it's on to begin writing a proposal for Sumatra with the Seven Churches. I have reservations to go to Greece and Turkey for a couple weeks this summer to do on-site research for that. Gary and I also celebrate 30 years this June, so we've timed his return from Nairobi with my trip so he can meet me in Istanbul for a week. When he became a missionary, I told God I was sad we wouldn't get to travel any more...
Tonight I finished edits on the summer issue of Kindred Spirit, which takes an in-depth look at how the Bible reveals God's heart for the Arab world.
Over in my PhD program, I've completed all class work and all translation work. This spring I did a six-credit-hour study of the Ephesian Artemis, looking at inscription evidence for what it reveals about her. I plan to wrap that up with a visit to Ephesus while I'm in Turkey. Now I move on to examinations, which requires reading pretty much the entire Western canon of lit--for starters. I have Middlemarch on my nightstand. If you live in Dallas and see me anytime in the next nine months, please don't lend me a book. Or buy me a book. Or give me one as a gift. You will tempt me to read something other than one of the hundreds I need to read to become Dr. Glahn.