Math, Geology, and Paperwork

For the first time in my life I find myself delighting in doing math. In fact I have been doing it as a break from other things when they become too frustrating or exhausting. You see, math used to be one of the most difficult and trying things that I had to do. The numbers seemed to race wildly through my head and then back out again without allowing me a moments time to catch them and pin them down. Now, in addition to mathematics I am currently taking a geology class. Although not difficult it proves very frustrating and, dare I say that forbidden word, BORING. As I write these words I am avoiding labeling ages and event principles to layers of rock. Now, it might be one thing if I actually got to see real rocks, or even pictures of real rocks, but such a thing is not my fate. I am sent to the plight of intently studying sketches of rocks. I find it oddly similar to studying paperwork filled with blanks for me to fill in about every thing about me that university authorities could never actually want to know. Now due to the hospitality (not parted by many words in the English dictionary from “hostility”) of my local university, school planning has become more trying even than math. Planning out tests and paperwork has proved to lead to more dead ends and frustrating ties than even math could and is similar to staring at sketches of rocks. At least with the paper work I get to call the shots and not depend on the view of one enchanted by rocks to know when God chose to put a certain rock in a certain place.