I should be studying, yet I don't feel an urgent need. That's because there is nothing undone that is due tomorrow. To be sure, there's plenty undone - enough, in fact, to provide me with work for months - but since it ain't due, I just don't feel the urgent need. You know?

I was talking to a professor awhile back and he told me that he really enjoyed graduate school. I don't think I'd go that far in my own experience, because it is more time-demanding than I wish and because I haven't learned to embrace the frustration of pounding head fruitlessly against wall for significant portions of time. But I do have a good life here at school, and a great life otherwise. I'm really glad God brought me here, and for reasons more important than school. I sure love my girl.

Much studying IS weariness of the flesh, the Bible got it right, but there is also a tremendous sense of satisfaction to be gained through the hard work.