Dec 12th

- I'm depressed. I am so eager to graduate, and I'm not going to know if I can for another month, and I get the feeling it's going to wear me down. Anyway...

- “Quando dio, ole castigarci ci manda, quello che desideriamo.”
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

I thought it was interesting. A pagan-founded sentiment, of course, but the thought still makes you thank God for Romans 8:26.

- You know the feeling you get when you know something bad is going to happen, but you can't do anything about it? It makes you depressed. I'm depressed. I'm going to go write.

- There's this scene in the West Wing where the president is talking to his chief of staff and says something like, "Sweden has a 100% literacy rate! 100%! How do they do that?" And his chief of staff says, " Maybe they don't, but they can't do math." That's got to be one of my favorite lines of all time.