The exams are graded, the grades have been submitted to the Registrar's Office electronically and I am trying, as Roz says, to reenter normal society.........

To help with that reentry, Sandy and I are going with the Cope's to dinner at Carter at Main in Elizabethton tonight.......... we are going to eat on the upstairs patio and have a good relaxing time............

This was the first time that I taught summer school school on-line and I have to say it was a most interesting teaching experience, a most interesting time. Tom Selleck, in Magnum P.I., would say that it was an ancient oriental curse that we live in "interesting" times. HIHO, which is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut, is about all I have to say right now. I learned much about the on-line summer process that will make my classes better in the regular terms as well as the summer next year. If there is a summer next year........ You never know with summer school until the enrollments occur.

I am thinking about writing a short story - Tales from the Mails: E-mails that is!! I am sure it has already been written many times, but I think I will try to add to the literary nonsense category - I have received some of the most "interesting" e-mails in the last year and at least I should try to get a paper out of them - my boss wants publications so here I go!!!

On a more serious note - I have heard nothing about Matthew Fay and will let everyone know when I do.

Blessing to those who put up with me during summer school, especially Sandy.

Remember to take good care of yourself so you can take good care of another. John

Mowin' maniac........

Today I was a mowing maniac.... I started before breakfast loading the mower and trimmer and then I went and ate a cheese omelet at Beasley's....... then, at about 9:30am I cut the grass and trimmed at church, the parsonage, and at home........ I finally came in the house at 3:30 and took a shower, graded some final exams, and put grommets in a purse.... then I had a glass of wine and Jill and I greeted Sandy when she came home. I bet I sleep well tonight..... Oh yah, I am cooking meatloaf on the grill and Sandy is making mashed potatoes and gravy and peas for dinner.........bet there will be some bread too... I forgot to eat lunch so I am hungry...

I hope you all had as good a day as I had............... remember, take good care of yourself so you can take good care of another. Love, john

In MC's blog about quiting smoking I was reminded about a couple of my favorite prayers - the first is a prayer by St. Francis and the second is the Serenity Prayer:

A prayer by Saint Francis:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred . . . let me sow love

Where there is injury . . . pardon

Where there is doubt . . . faith

Where there is despair . . .hope

Where there is darkness . . . light

Where there is sadness . . .joy

Divine Master,grant that i may not so much seek

To be consoled . . .as to console

To be understood . . .as to understand,

To be loved . . . as to love

For it is in giving . . .that we receive,

It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned,

It is in dying . . .that we are born to eternal life

--St Francis


Serenity Prayer:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;

courage to change the things I can;

and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;

Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,

not as I would have it;

Trusting that He will make all things right

if I surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life

and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next.

Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

Remember, take good care of yourself so that you can take good care of another.

Peace, john