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Hello everyone,
Things are going well this semester. I got off to a rocky start at first; but is smoothing out nicely. I’m not taking quite as many classes this semester so I can spend more on my spiritual life. I’ll be taking Iconography again, more Latin, Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, historical intro to theology, and Vatican II documents. We had a week long silent retreat at the beginning of the semester which lead by a great guy, but at the end of the week I was certainly glad to be able to make noise again. J We are now in the middle of our annual reviews and evaluations. Things are going along very well on that front. We had a big Superbowl party and just about everybody was there – including a number of the monks and the priests. We got about 25 pizzas which filled the whole back seat of the car, and they were gone in like 30 minutes. That’s 1 pizza every 60 seconds. Talk about ravenous beasts! Surprisingly, the last 2 pizzas lasted a long time, so we got the count just right. It was a lot of fun and we all had a great time – even if the Raiders fans didn’t. A week ago some of us took a trip up to Mt Hood and had just about the best day on the mountain I can remember. In two weeks, a big group of us are going to Mt. Bachelor for the weekend. It should be great because there is a pro snowboarding competition that day in the half-pipe. I’m looking forward to some fun snowboarding with the guys and watching the competition. This semester is loaded with extra work from being a social director and new duties as a resident assistant. We lost social director (there were 3 of us) last semester and that’s made more work for us remaining guys. We’re trying to get the new guy up to speed. We’ve also had a big bout of the flu going through up here. I haven’t had the pleasure yet, but it was putting people out of commission left and right. So in many ways, life is just about normal. J I wanted to let you know that I put some more pictures up on my web page and updated it a bit. Check it out at: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~mpf I’ll be adding more pictures as I get them sorted. I took off most of the really old pictures to save server space. The server it’s on is sometimes slow; but it’s still free for me. I hope you are all doing well and I keep you in my prayers, Matt |