Impressionists amaze me. The voice-mimicking folk, not the painters. (Though they're not too shabby, either.)
It's not that they can do such a great job of mimicking people's voices, it's that they can do so in spite of themselves.
Let me clarify. I have no clue what I sound like. Well, I do, but it's only because I've heard recordings of myself. And the same is true of you, too, I'm sure. Remember the first time you heard yourself on recording? Didn't you immediately think, "That's not what I sound like!"? But it is what you sound like. You just didn't know it.
Now add this little factor into the impressionist's work. He already knows that he can't trust his ears to give him an accourate representation of what comes out of his mouth. In spite of that, he does a spot-on impression of, say, Al Pacino, with his own ears deceiving him as he does it.
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- I'm finally recovering from three Christmas meals in three days.
- Brooke got me/us tickets to the Eagles concert for Christmas.
- Done teaching Genesis at 58th Street. I get a three month break and then get OT Wisdom. It'll be fun to get reading/preparation for that done the same time I'm doing other stuff. I have some great stuff that I want to read. Hope to find the time to do it.
- Pre-New Years Bowl picks made a turn for the better after those first few games. Now we'll see how things turn out down the home stretch. My initial observation is that, compared to the regular season, the SEC looks really good and the ACC looks really bad. Jury's out on the rest of them.
- Your Heart Belongs to Me (Koontz) is really good so far. So is Exploring Exodus (Sarna). These two have pushed to the back burner Things Unseen (Buchanan) and Twelve Extraordinary Women (MacArthur).
- If all is as expected, this is my last semester of the MAR. Cross-Cultural Evangelism and Church Planting is one of the classes. Homiletics is the other. Meanwhile, Women of the Bible (one credit-hour seminar) is what I'll be teaching at FC. Unlike Genesis, I'll be building this one as I go.
- Getting ready for a couple of big announcements from DeWard next week.
Women of the Bible sounds good, you'll be really popular on campus. As for Wisdom Literature, make sure you get Longman's new series on that section of the bible, if you can afford it.
If I'd been told before the season began that only one Florida team (NFL) would make the playoffs, I would have never guessed that it would have been the Dolphins. They would have been my fifth guess. Seriously. I would have guessed both of the other teams twice before I picked them.
Then again, I also thought that Hawaii would beat Notre Dame, Boise State would beat TCU, and about a dozen other terrible bowl picks (see below if you missed that travesty of a post).
