Research Paper

It would seem that I should have no trouble writing a paper about the Primitive Baptists for my religious history class but that is just not the case. You would think that having been raised by a preacher father, attended church for all of my (almost) 25 years, having been a member for 20 1/2 years, plus being in a family who has been Primitive Baptists for who knows how long, I wouldn't have so much trouble. However, having to back up what I inherently know is proving to be difficult. I know, I know...I shouldn't have procrastinated. But I did. Now I have to wallow in it. I think I may have to pull an all nighter. The truth is, I have never had to do this throughout college so I guess I've done ok. I was praying for enough snow to close school tomorrow so that I could at least have another day, but the weather man is against me.

Speaking of the snow, we had such a beautiful afternoon of steady snow showers. Are they called showers when it's snow? The kids at the daycare were glued to the windows in the gym today. After work, because I was the only one who had an ice scraper since my sweet husband grew up in Iowa and came equipped with one, I helped several teachers de-snow their windows. I promise there were at least two inches of snow on my car. It is just gorgeous. It steadily snowed for almost 4 hours. And real snow, not just freezing rain or snow/rain mix. It was real, honest to goodness snow. The weather man said this morning the snow fall would end before noon and that the temperatures would reach 50 degrees. Boy was he wrong! The Texas weather men just don't know how to predict cold weather. I'm not sure it even reached 40 degrees today and as stated earlier, we had 4 hours of steady snow fall. Unfortunately for me who wishes school would be cancelled, the roads weren't really accumulating any of the white stuff, just any other surface it could land on. The sign to our apartments looked beautiful. The snow was laying on the letters surrounded by Christmas lights and greenery. If I had seen it in a picture, I would never have guessed the scene was in Texas.

The forecast is that the temperatures will be close to 60 degrees tomorrow. Can you believe that? Yesterday we reach almost 80, today we don't even reach 40, and tomorrow we'll be back in the 60's. It's no wonder everyone is always sick! It sure would be nice to have a few more cold days like today. I could really get used to this. Perhaps I should move to Colorado after all!!!

While I continue to procrastinate on my paper, I might as well discuss the grades I've gotten so far. It will be a short discussion because I've only gotten one final grade. In my Literature and Film class, my last test grade was a 100. So, my final average is a 97! Since my grade is so high, and I didn't miss too many classes, I don't have to take a final. I think that was the best part. I just wish all my grades would be that high. I could still possibly make all A's. More realistically, I think I'll have at least one B. Worst case scenario is that I make two A's and two B's. Actually, the worst case scenario is that all of my teachers report my grades wrong and I make all F's. That would truly be catastrophic. But hopefully that won't happen. Knock on wood.

On another note, which now I realize I should have started with since it is so important, my dad is in the hospital. My mom took him to the doctor Monday and he has MRSA Staph infection. He had to have surgery yesterday to drain the infection and is on a machine that continuously drains the wound. He will be in the hospital at least until Friday. This infection is highly contagious and the MRSA strain can be fatal. We found out that last year at this time, they did not yet have the medication that they have now to help fight the infection. Isn't that scary? Please pray for him and my mother. My poor mom just dealt with my grandma's scary situation, and now is having to deal with this with my dad. And in reality, Mema is still not doing very well. She's at home but is not eating and still having trouble with her bowels. They are all in need of prayer.

Ok, now I really need to write my paper.