I’m baaack!!!

No, I am not dead and I have not moved to a cave or departed to Mars!!!!  I have just been SUPER busy and somewhat unable to post, but now that I am able to post, I will try to update you as best as I can.  The first thing I would like to say is thank you to all those who attended my reception.  The Lord blessed me with enough money to meet my needs as I moved into my dorm.  After that, most of my extended family and I went down to SMSU to set up my dorm, ah yes it was fun trying to put together a desk with multiple sets of instruction readers and supervisor, but I digress.  Of course the next big hurdle to get over was MOVE IN WEEKEND!!!  That was when I realized how deeply I was emersed in the world.  It was bit of shock that we were required to go to a vulgar comedy sketch show to basically educated the students how to properly read the “sex signals.”  Needless to say, I was conspicuously absent.  The next big thing was the start of school.  I felt that it would be beneficial if I slowed down to a part time student schedule for the first semester to prevent being overwhelmed by the amount of work, so I switched from 16 credits to 10.  Then, as you might all have heard, I had a little bit of an adventure.  There was a lightning strike that caused a cascade that blew the transformer of my dorm out.  I had already gotten in bed when the alarm went off.  They evacuated the building, but forgot about Zeus and I, even to the point that noone told us what was going on.  After I had been laying in my bed for two hours with the fire alarm blaring right outside my door, they finally came and got me and moved me to the common area of another building where the rest of my dorm had already assembled.  After waiting there for another 20 minutes or so, theyh moved us to a conference room in the school where we waited for another two hours.  They finally told us that we could not go back into our dorms that morning, for by this time it was about 2:00am, but they moved all the disabled kids into a motel for the rest of the night, but allowed us to go back the following evening.  It was an interesting inaugruation to the school year, but I had Zeus with me so I was okay.  The next few weeks, in fact, even up to this last week, were plauged by computers and lifts and the like breaking.  But I pulled through.  It was also a bit of a shock to see how worldly was the environment that I had been emersed into.  There is a very strong homosexual community on campus, extending even to some of the faculty and most of the rest of my professors are content to swear like sailors.  The major blessings have been:  I have Zeus to keep me company through these trying times and I have the support of friends to help me get my assignments accomplished.  Thank you for your ongoing prayer and support.  –Josh Straub

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