Recovering & Reflection

Slightly modified excerpts from an email to a friend about how GOEs went and How I was recovering:

Hey... thanks for the email. Too tired and brain fried to type much now. No internet at home since my computer is in the empty apartment across the hall from mine where I was taking my exams. Came to the library to check out some funny, brainless movies to veg on this afternoon.

Did actually make it to the gym today for only about the 3rd time since I joined at the beginning of the Fall semester. Did 32 min on treadmill, 30 min +2 cooldown.

Exams went okay... about as I expected, but a little better in some ways. There was stress and anxiety on top, but a level of calm underneath it all that made me feel that the calm was a result of all the folks praying for me/us this week.

The two open book questions I didn't have time to really finish so the end of them get sketchy and outline-ish - spent too much time doing research, many of us did. The good news is the 2 that got more sketchy I felt confident I could answer, just ran out of time. So... apparently I've been learning the kinds of things they wanted me to learn during my time in seminary.

Trying to decide if I want to finish/rewrite the 2 questions I don't feel as good about this next week while it's fresh in my mind and the only obligation I currently have is to give a homily at my field ed parish Wednesday night. That way if my Bishop and COM want some evidence I know that subject area, I won't have to go re-research it while immersed in our last semester. I could be pro-active and even send it ahead of time. The other good news is that for questionable exams one of the readers for my diocese is Rev. K. I was griping to her about History Question that I ran out of time on, before she told me she'd recently been asked to be a reader, so she knows that I knew the information on that one. She was encouraging - "the people in diocese know you and you've got supporters on the COM, it should be fine."

The other 5 questions I finished in a better fashion and hope to get a passing score and a couple I felt I should have done pretty well on and if I don't pass will be surprised. Also got the hard copy of my Senior Evaluation saying they feel I'm personally and academically ready for ordination (copy to me, orig to my Bishop), so that's good.

Well I better go and veg/sleep/recover.