My first blog... ever!

I'm really excited about starting a blog. I originally thought of it because I often have lots of people I want to update about my life and it takes so long to email and I have to edit and send different versions to different people. This seems like the perfect solution.
To begin with I should mention that I'm just finishing up my first year at Seminary (see the next post for a tutorial on the Seminary process). We're all in finals mode around here. Right now I'm working the extra late shift at the library that happens the last two weeks of the semester. I'll be here until midnight. I have several projects that I'm finishing up, but everything should be finished in a little more than a week.
Seminary so far has been a great success. I have enjoyed it more than I anticipated. Greek has been a challenge and Systematic Theology has made me wonder if I ever really knew anything about God, but all in all school has been great fun. Both Mike and I also like Dubuque (even if Mike is calling our years in Iowa "the exile years"). We keep busy with people our own age, which is great fun, and there's always something going on at the castle. We call Wartburg the castle because it is modeled after Wartburg castle in Germany (where Martin Luther translated the bible while living in hiding from the pope). All in all life is very good.
I am currently looking forward to:

1. The end of the Semester (assuming I pass everything)
2. Our trip to St. Paul for my broth -in-law's graduation with a master's in business (May 17)
3. Our trip from St. Paul to Fargo to see friends and borrow my mom's car for the summer (May 18-20)
4. The beginning of CPE (I think, I'm a little nervous) in La Crosse, WI
   

Okay that's all for now - goodnight!