I took my last exam yesterday and don’t have to go back until February! It was a lot of work and I’m glad I’m done. I liked the subjects and would have enjoyed the readings more if I wasn’t under so much pressure to finish in time for the final. I think I did OK but who knows? I could have totally bombed! As a long as I passed the Prophets class, I’ll be OK.
In February, I’ll be taking my last two courses and then I’m really done 🙂 I’m taking the more advanced Apologetics class and Poets and Wisdom. I’m really looking forward to both and have already loaded my MP3 player with Psalms, Proverbs, Job, and Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes and have started reading “The Defensive of the Faith” by Van Til. It’s the 1955 edition with helpful notes by Professor Oliphint. I’ve also started reading “The Tree of Life” by Roland E. Murphy in preparation for the spring. It’s going to be a lot of hard work so I thought I’d get started early.
We went out to dinner and a movie to celebrate. I choose Red Lobster so I could try their new grill menu, it was pretty good, the shrimp was the best. Then we saw “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Our twelve year old, Samantha, was given the choice of this movie and “Bolt,” I wish she had picked “Bolt!” It was terrible! It was slow and boring, you knew where it was going and wished it would just get there. I liked the special effects but that was about it. I couldn’t understand why the aliens didn’t just give us the advanced technology necessary to exist on this planet without destroying it and forcing us to regress to the stone age. Obviously, they have advanced to the point of traveling biospheres, maybe they could have shared that technology with the inhabitants of earth.
And it was obvious that the writer used the movie as an analogy for global warming. We are destroying the planet with cars, etc. and need to stop using them before we destroy the earth. But I could have put up with the global warming propaganda if the movie had been a little more interesting but the propaganda along with the plodding plot made it unbearable.
Samantha didn’t like it either and wished she had picked “Bolt.” But my husband liked it, he thought it had a redemptive theme. I can see his point but you don’t see that until the end and by then it’s too late, you’re bored out of your mind. You just want get out of the theater and not bother wasting anymore of your time discussing it.