I got the thesis submitted in at about 3pm this afternoon, but I'm not quite ready to relax yet. Currently I have some (re-)marking to do this evening in addition to a little prep for tutorial tomorrow. (grr... changed grading scheme). Hopefully I should at least be able to get a decent night's sleep tonight though, unlike the last while.
My Thursday meeting appears to be cancelled, so I think that from Wednesday at 2pm to Monday at 8am I'll be avoiding the campus.
The last few weeks I've been pushing up against thesis deadlines to have my M.Sc. completed by the end of the year, and that's resulted in a few normal activities getting pushed aside. I tend to read just about anything that crosses my path, and one such book that I acquired a few weeks back falls into that "strange but interesting" category. The book in question is titled Alone in the kitchen with an eggplant: confessions of cooking for one and dining alone. Being a bachelor and a person who might be classified a loner, eating solo is for me probably the norm.
Lately, I just haven't had the time to cook due to all the looming deadlines - I think that I may have cooked perhaps two or three meals in the past two weeks. By and large the rest of my meals have come from a few tv dinners and innumerable trips to Subway, Safeway (which has surprisingly good sandwiches), Opa! (greek fast food), Tim Hortons, and a few local restaurants.
One of the things that would speed up the cooking process and thus render me more likely to cook would be to move to a place with a proper stove (much faster to cook on than hotplates) and a dishwasher (to speed up the cleanup). Of course, At the same time, the cost differential that I'd be paying for the sort of places that I'd consider moving to is high enough that it's relatively easy to justify eating out fairly regularly. The other thing that prompts the occasional idea of moving is to find space for a (much) larger desk. As Scott mentioned my current desk is rather small. But, that said, I'm relatively satisfied with where I am now, and moving is always a nuisance.
NT Wright was one of the topics of discussion over lunch on Thursday. One of the complaints against the folks of and around Westminster Seminary California that I heard was that they were missing some of the good stuff that Wright had done. Here's an excerpt from a review of Wright's book on the resurrection on the blog of the very church with one R. Scott Clark listed on the pastoral staff:
A couple of years ago I asked Dr. Peter Jones what he suggested I read for some work I was planning to do on 1 Corinthians 15. Knowing that Dr. Jones has for more than a decade engaged in extensive exegetical work on 1 Corinthians 15 (especially v.45), I figured he would be the guy to ask for suggested reading on this topic. Without hesitation he said, “The Resurrection of the Son of God by NT Wright!” Surprised, I replied, “NT Wright? You mean, NT Wright as in NPP NT Wright?” “Trust me,” said Jones, “this is the NT Wright we like.” Yes, I was skeptical. As a Reformed pastor who subscribes to the Three Forms of Unity and the Protestant (read: Pauline) doctrine of justification by faith alone, I am not a fan of NT Wright in general. I am committed to opposing the New Perspective on Paul and warning Christ’s sheep of this subtle but potentially deadly compromise of the gospel. Nevertheless, Jones was right about this Wright: The Resurrection of the Son of God is a brilliant book that will take your breath away. It is nothing short of a monumental defense of the doctrine of the resurrection and an indispensable explanation of how the new creation has been inaugurated in this present evil age. This book is a credit to orthodoxy that will surely serve the church for many years to come.
... let me make this bold statement: no serious preaching or teaching on the doctrine of the resurrection should be done without Wright’s The Resurrection of the Son of God!
