Summer has begun! Well, for college students it has. I’ve been struggling with keeping myself busy this past week. It’s hard to transition from an environment that’s strictly workworkworkworkwork readreadreadreadread writewritewritewritewrite to an environment that’s mostly absent of any real goals or deadlines.
This isn’t all bad, of course. Now, I can reread some texts from last semester that I wanted to understand more thoroughly. And I have all the time I need to do that. It can be hard to process certain concepts and ideas under deadlines, so I’m grateful for the opportunity I have to read more closely.
But overall, it been a little strange coming home and getting used to a slower pace. I can’t complain about the fact that I’m getting plenty of sleep, but it still feels like I have NOTHING to do. I will be getting a summer job at some point and have started filling out applications. Every part of my body is dreading the fact that I’ll be working in retail again, but I am in desperate need of some cash for next semester. Once I do start working, I’m hoping I’ll suck it up and act like an adult.
As for now, I’m just focusing on getting my room clean and moving my things back into my house. Not to mention reading. So much reading. And writing for this blog as well. I’m trying to focus on one topic at a time so I don’t get overloaded with information and ideas. Now that the semester is over, I have the liberty to do so.
I’m currently focusing on the issue of redistribution of wealth. It was brought up somehow a few days ago and the subject has really been grinding my gears. A fabulous and highly recommended book I read last semester, Hadley Arkes’ First Things, has a chapter on the subject that I’m working through, so I’m hoping to get some of my thoughts on the subject up once I’ve finished reading that.
Thanks all for reading and please continue to do so!
What have I been reading?
– My Brother’s Keeper: What the social sciences do (and don’t) tell us about masculinity by Dr. Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
–The Trial by Franz Kafka
– Wherever I Wind Up by R.A. Dickey
– Good News for Anxious Christians: 10 practical things you don’t have to do by Dr. Phillip Cary
– First Things: An inquiry into the first principles of morals and justice by Hadley Arkes
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