Spring Semester '07 Begins

Wow!

The beginning of a new semester is always a busy time. Sometimes, like the past week or so, my head gets to spinning, and all but the most rudimentary of short term memory ceases to function. Example:

I'm on campus with a student on a Monday, and another student comes by to say hello.
"Hey Matt, how was your weekend?"
I get a blank, confused look on my face, "I can't remember."
"That bad, already?"

Yea, it's kind of weird. Of course, students expect to feel like that at the end of the semester when projects, papers, and finals are looming over them like the apocalypse. The end of the semester is fairly low key for campus ministers, as many of our students disappear from the land of the living for a week or two.

Of course, I get to experience both ends this semester, as I take on my second course in pursuit of a masters degree in sociology at UNO. Karl Marx is heavy reading.

Besides being a little frazzled, and nursing Jen back to health (the busyness rewarded her with a nasty sinus & chest infection), some really great things have been happening around here.

There's new vitality in the leadership team at Loyola.
There are new leaders, and a new Satellite group at Tulane.
There is focus and desire to reach out at UNO.
We have some new contacts at Xavier.

Stay tuned, you don't want to miss what God's got going this semester at Chi Alpha New Orleans!