I'm more alive now... Still working my way back to the land of the living, but all is well. I turned in my last paper of the semester at noon today. T'was a very, very complicated Metaphysics paper about free will and determinism. I enjoyed thinking about the topic, because I've been wanting to settle it logically in my own mind for a while.

Also in my personal news, I found out that I am being awarded a $100 prize from the school's literary journal, The Stylus, for a poem I wrote. It is entitled Why Love, and runs as follows:

I could live
Alone
On a mountaintop, in the chill,
Sunset spread before my wondering eyes.
But if you and I together,
Silent,
Sat dangling our feet over the drop,
And you held my hand,
It would be
Better.

I didn't think it was my best, but it was a thought from my heart. I had originally submitted it anonymously, because I was scared to put my name to something so personal, but they convinced me to give my own name so that I could win the prize. I don't know. I will be happy to have the extra $100.

Reading Day is tomorrow, then finals. Some of us have pre-screening tickets for Narnia tomorrow evening. That'll be a lot of fun. It's supposed to snow quite a few inches that night; I wonder if finals will be disrupted? We shall see.  ¶ 8:00 PM