Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?

Short post today. We are back to that Tuesday again. LONG day ahead with a Greek quiz at 5:45. I believe I know the material, we will see. We have another required orientation seminar at 1:00pm today, the topic is Alcohol Awareness and the Church. I have never really experienced anyone with that problem in the Church but it makes sense that it could become a problem.


Jason and I did Chapel yesterday and we didn’t do such a hot job. As many times as we have both been up front at church we were both nervous. Our Worship Practicum professor was watching to let us know what could be improved, and we were in front of our colleagues that we see every day. This really surprised both of us. We have a chance to redeem ourselves in December.

Please pray for Deb. She is working the second day of her two day test run at a job as they get to know her and she gets to know them and the job. I guess tomorrow or later this week they will decide if they want to offer her the job. This one has a lot of positives; it just doesn’t have healthcare benefits. She has another job that seems pretty promising also; this one has the healthcare benefits. Thank God healthcare is still going strong and that is her field. One of the reasons healthcare benefits are such a deal with us is that the healthcare offered here at school is less than adequate for older students. I am sure it is great for the twenty something’s, but all of the plans offered, of which there are three, have either no prescription benefit or it is capped at $3000 per year. Those of you that are older know that $3000 per year for prescriptions coverage is pretty poor. You need to be pretty healthy for that to be enough coverage.  I need to find out who is responsible for putting these plans together for us and talk to them about offering a plan with better coverage. I know it will be more expensive, but the alternative will break us. As it is, we have COBRA for this year, but that is over $1000 per month for the family.  I know that this healthcare issue is very explosive, but the way insurance companies can pick and choose to cover you and at what cost is something that has got to be fixed in this country. If you have anything wrong you have to get coverage through a group plan at work. If you have anything wrong and you want to buy a personal plan outside of a group plan forget it. They don’t cover people with anything wrong. Remember the old saying the only banks will lend you money is if you can prove you don’t need it? Same deal.

At this point the big deal here is homework and reading. We have many things due these next two weeks culminating in a test in History of Christianity. Keeping it all straight and what is due when is a little challenging and since I have not been in school for so long it took me a while to develop a system to keep track of it. It’s a little different than business. As deadlines approach in business you are usually talking about them as most times they require more than just your work. Here, the assignments fly parallel and outside of the class work, so you don’t necessarily know that an assignment is coming up. If you keep your ear to the ground, and I do, you can usually catch someone saying something about the assignment and that triggers in your mind that dreadful reaction, “Oh no!”. Since we are in the incoming class I think teachers realize that some of us are just getting back into school and have been pretty good about mentioning the outside of the class assignments.

I hope to have some energy left at the end of the day. If so, I’ll hit the treadmill! Maybe this ended up not being so short after all.

As Randy Pausch says in his "Last Lecture", and I paraphrase; In life you can choose to be a Tigger or an Eeyore.  Choose to be a Tigger!
The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is Tiggers are wonderful things.  There tops are made out of rubber, their bottoms are made out of springs.  Their bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy fun fun fun fun fun.  But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I'm the only one. OH I'M THE ONLY ONE!  Not so fast, Tigger.  I am one too!