On the bus

August 21st, 2010

I’m on the bus.  We just passed Newark and are heading down the Jersey turnpike.  K is curled up next to me and is taking a nap. I’m enjoying the free wifi.  I’m living the high life.

From my standpoint, on the top deck of a double decker bus, we’re making good time. The traffic is moving quickly and we might actually make it to Philadelphia on time.  When I have taken this trip in the past, it has only been on time once so I’m not holding my breath.

I didn’t start packing for seminary until late yesterday afternoon and, while sitting here, I’m already remembering the things I forgot.  I really do need a towel.  I might need bed sheets.  And I was only able to cram half a dozen books in my small suitcase.  I’m going down there bare bones. Like I told my friend, I don’t view my dorm room at seminary to be my home away from home.  I view it as an extended stay in a hotel room.  I’m not sure the view will be as nice and there probably won’t be a mint left on my pillow when I check in but the room will do.  It’ll suffice.

K is coming with me for the day but she’ll be heading back to NYC tonight.  My Uncle Mike will be picking us up from the station and driving me to my new digs.  The seminary has a two week long orientation that starts tomorrow night.  In the orientation, along with details about financial aid, the student handbook, and how to use the library, is a course called “Introduction to Public Theology”. It’s a warmup course to get myself oriented to the rest of the semester.  I’m curious how it will go. I’m curious to see who my fellow classmates will be. And I wonder how long it will take before I get use to reading constantly.  It will be weird having semesters where I never have to turn in a problem set.

I’ll report later on a few of my recent back-to-school purchases, my adventures with Amazon, and some of the advice people gave me before I left.  I won’t see NYC for two weeks.  I won’t see K either.  I know that, by day three, it will be weird that she isn’t around.  But I’m off on a new adventure.  I’m pretty sure this is going to be fun.

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