Finals Fun

I must apologize for not writing in such a long time. What with the excitement of finals and Thanksgiving and paper-writing and all, I’ve been too enthralled with school work to do much else.

These last few weeks I’ve been focusing my talents on finishing up the semester strong. I’m just about finished with a paper on union attitudes toward immigration, church fathers’ use of Marian doctrines to defend Christian faith, and the Promise Keepers Movement as a Christian response to culture. I’ve still got a lot of writing to do, but I’m more than halfway through with my tasks. When it’s all said and done, I’ll have written about 65 pages worth of work here in the last month of school. I thank God for the chance I’ve got to learn so much.

Jeanne Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to the UN, passed away yesterday. She was a government professor emeritus from Georgetown, so I feel like I had a special connection to her. Although I never met her, I did collect Kirkpatrick’s mail along with that of other professors at my government department work-study job. Since she didn’t have a mailbox in the department, I always had to re-label and re-route her mail to the American Enterprise Institute, the think-tank where she worked until her death. I grieve with her family and with the Georgetown faculty who have lost a well-loved and talented lady. And, I’m saddened and relieved that I won’t be able to reroute Ambassador Kirkpatrick’s mail to her new address.