writing

Thinking these days about walking into the academic planning office and saying, "hi--I've been here for three years and I'd like to have some help figuring out how to get my work done." I think I'll give it another week before that.

Here's something I ran across doing reading for a class today.

"Writing is thinking that can be stopped and tinkered with. It is a way of making thought hold still long enough to examine its structures, its possibilities, its flaws. The road to a clearer understanding of one's own thoughts is travelled on paper. It is through the attempt to find words for ourselves, and to find patterns for ourselves in which to express related ideas, that we often come to discover exactly what we think."

From "Why Write?" by John T. Gage.

I like that, because I'm not a fast thinker. I like being able to make a thought with just the right shape and flow that I want. And yes, when I finally spend the time to write something I learn whether or not I acrually think it.

In other news:
Classes are well. Chinese exam today was a success. Economics 100 feels worthwhile. Fires need lighting under my senior independent study. The weather has gotten cold. My sore throat hasn't come back. I am still waking up with enough time for some study and prayer. InterVarsity feels alive. The dining hall is making Asian food on Mondays. The Lord is still good.