school, junk, and giraffes

School is almost done! This is pretty exciting news, as I've only been in school for the past 11 months and I'm ready to move on. This Thursday will be the end of my last class, Anatomy & Physiology IV, and then next Monday begins my start in the clinic. I'll actually finish Clinic just a bit earlier than scheduled because I will be doing 19 hours a week instead of the standard 18. Not much faster, but enough to make me feel like I'm moving on. The schedule I'll have is pretty sweet; Monday-Wednesday 1-6 PM and Thursdays from 5-9. This way evenings are free, which is awesome, but really means that I'll probably be hanging out at Hollywood Video, working (or whatever they call it).

Come next Monday I'll rejoin the ranks of the Albuquerque Concert Band. I haven't played my horn in SO LONG. I'll sound really bad, but at least I'll be playing again, right? Sure. Because that'll make it all better.

Seminary has been going well, I think. But then, I'm pretty much a lurker. All I've really done is run Scripture Mastery on Wednesdays, but tomorrow I'm actually teaching a lesson. That's a little unnerving, but I think it'll go okay. I hope.
The past couple weeks I've been doing SM, I've learned that the students know the verses really well, but they don't really associate the reference with the content. To remedy this, I wrote out each SM on sketch paper and, for a few of them, drew a picture using the numbers of the reference which reflected the verse. John 3:5 is about baptism, so I wrote out "3+5" really big, because when added, it equals 8, which is the age of baptism. Get it? Hebrews 5:4, just count it down: 54321, because 321 is 123 backwards, which is the age at which Aaron, the Hebrew died, and the whole verse is about the Priesthood, specifically mentioning the Aaronic Priesthood. Ah? See?
I left most of the verses blank and passed them out and had the students draw their own associative pictures. It was pretty awesome. One student thought he couldn't come up with anything, so he drew a giraffe. I said that was fine, as long as he could somehow make the giraffe tie into the verse. The giraffe is named Corinthian. And his neck makes a big 1. He has 15 big spots on his body, a colon at his collar bone, and 29 small spots on his neck. And he was blue, so he was dead, but he was happy, because he'd been baptized. What is the verse? 1 Corinthians 15:29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
I will never look at a giraffe the same again. Today went well.