St louis is cold, then kind of warm, then cold again. We almost fell down our stairs, for ice's sake, so I sprinkled salt and pepper all over the ground then it was ok. We have been going to tapas bars a lot. "Tapas" as in Spanish food, not as in some other kind of place.
My spring term starts in only a few days. I am excited to start studying systematic theology in a class called "Lutheran Mind." The languages have been good, but my bread and butter is the theology. It is what drew me back to the church and to the Lutheran faith and now to seminary.
Whenever I tell people that I go to Concordia Seminary, they seem confused. I don't think most people know what a seminary is. I was thinking that maybe I should say that I am a divinity student, but I suppose that could be confusing as well. I will say thus verbatium: "I attend Concordia Seminary where I am studying Systematic, Pastoral, Historical, and Exegetical Theology for the purpose of attaining ordination into the Holy Ministry." or I could just say that I am studying to be a pastor.
We got Netflix again. It's good to welcome back an old friend. We do have cable too and have become fond of various shows. Most involve eating and traveling: "The adventures of Mark and Olly living with the Mek Tribe," "No Reservations with Anthony Bordein" "Extreme meals with Andrew Zimern" "Antiques roadshow" Tcm, Lost. We have become tving people. It is fun sometimes, but it mostly necessity. It is too cold to romp and play outside in the park and at the zoo and in AwesomeTown USA. We read books too though. I got Becca Harry Potter books. She is on #3 and I am on #4. We are reading them because we like witchcraft. I am interested in dark magic and sorcery and casting evil spells. I like to pretend that I am at Hogwarts when I walk to class because Concordia kind of looks like it. I pretend that Professors Feuerhaun, Warnick and Wessleschmidt are like Dumbledore and Snape and Hagrid. I use my Nestle-Aland Greek text for an owl. And my Biblia Hebraica Stuttgardensia is a wand. Parsing Hebrew verbs is like making a potion for Snape and translating the book of Ephesians is like winning the quiddich cup. or not.
