So...about those letters you keep sending me

I want to give everyone a heads up. Those letters and e-mails the people at seminaries (namely Candler) ARE important and should be read. I have this neat little (read: moronic) habit of getting a letter, opening it, and setting it down on the coffee/foot rest table. Well, apparently a crap load of deadlines were this week and I am cramming to get in on the last minute. I know, this type of behavior from me is unheard of.
This past weekend as I was talking with my brother I remembered (actually it is more like discovered) that part of my seminary experience is a "class" called Contextual Education. It is a process that only a handful of seminaries do in which all students are required to get some hands on time in ministry and not just learn a bunch of theory and theology. This sounds great to me. A school teaching us to actually be the love of God AND understand the love of God. Students are placed in a organization (i.e. recovery center, assisted living home, etc) and spend 5 hours a week serving in various capacities. Unfortunately this is a major blow to Robin and my plans to live here in Warner Robins for at least the first semester and possibly the first year. I had been banking on, for the last few weeks, that I would only go to class on Tues and Thurs and get a part time job here in WR. Depending on my placement in the Context Ed program, this could be annihilated. I am in communication with the folks that arrange the Context Ed jobs and am hoping to fall on the mercy of the court. If you happen to know anyone in that Department or someone "wink wink" else who has significant influence over space, time, and the like I would love a good word put in for me! We are committed staying either way, but it might become a major pain if I am driving to ATL more than three times a week.
I got my hands on a Macbook Pro, a slightly older model, and was...arrr...not impressed! Yes, I said it. Mac's are weird. You can't click a button to maximize things and you have to re-learn all of your subconcious movements that work on a Windows PC. I am not saying I am out on Mac's, I am saying that it is weird and icky.
Robin is halfway through summer and is still very hopeful about being able to work full-time in the Fall with the YMCA. There will hopefully be word about the availability of the position within the month. I am now actively pursuing job opportunties. It is unnerving to realize that on August 6th I don't have anything to do beside go into debt. So I am looking around middle Ga for jobs. I have decided that if a good opprotunity at a church is available, I will consider it, Youth or other. While I had been feeling burned out over the past few months on youth ministry, I am beginning to see that it might be partly due to my current situation here. So, I am looking around.
Ok, enough from me for now. I will hopefully find out soon about the Context stuff which will help me figure out a little bit about where and how much of a part time job I can get.
kirk out

(took this photo at a church in North Carolina. "Visitors Welcome EXCEPT during Church Functions" Now that is what I call Evangelism!)