#6

I'm a little worried for a friend of mine. I know there have been periods of time he hasn't been doing so good in the past, and it's not like all aspects of his life as causing him a lot of happiness as it is, but now he tells me he's had to be in contact with social workers? I mean, clearly, with studying social work, I know there are hundreds of things he could be trying to settle with them that are completely harmless, but I can't help but be concerned... We were supposed to go buy the elf ears from Punanaamio today, and I was thinking about buying materials for the tunic and cloak as well. Oh well, maybe we're doing that tomorrow, if he feels up to it.

Today we were studying very basic things about the Old Testament. I feel like we've gone through a lot of it before, even though the primary biblical focus of our theological/exegetical studies have been in the New Testament. We did get some "new" discussion going on about the creation myths and the story behind Samuel's birth.

Also a grand achievement: I'm halfway done with the drawings for my friend's book! I took a sketchbook, pens and pencils along to school and drew the complete, colored-in portrait of Ewan McGregor during today's lecture, and got in most of the rough outline of the Hiddleston piece. I think the practice I did with colored pencils this autumn really shows up in the Ewan McGregor one! I'm so happy about it. Also the semi-realistic semi-cartoon-type style of the portrait really appeals to me. I'll scan them and post them on here as well as on DeviantArt, maybe.

I've tried to draw Tom out of memory before, but it's always turned out weird, so I was quite apprehensive to start drawing him... so far, it seems to be going great. Even with just very basic lineart (for example, his eyes and mouth are just rough outlines without the pupils or teeth drawn in) it resembles him! That's probably mainly due to the fact that I did put in the places where his face tends to wrinkle around his smile. The crow's teeth are very characteristic of him, I find.

Now, before this turns into waxing poetic about Hiddleston - again - I'm supposed to go read up on the Bible study group I'm "hosting" tomorrow. I can't, for the life of me, remember any of the instructions from last year! I'll check if there's anything specific I have to do besides read up on the sources I have and maybe pose a few questions. I recall that we never did anything special or prayed during last year's round of this exercise, so I doubt I'll have to pay any attention to that sort of thing.

Kind-of-post-script:
A few days ago my dad tried to get me to come on the phone for a survey some service or other was doing on radio listening habits. He mentioned something about there being gift cards involved as a reward, or something to that effect. Earlier tonight, while I was almost-napping on the couch, my mom came upstairs with the landline in her hand and told me it was the survey. I responded to the short thing half-awake, and then the researchperson mentioned nothing about any gift cards...? I'm disappointed now.