Archaic Christianity

So yesterday began in a less than optimal way. I woke up, slumphed my way over to the shower in by sleepy stupor and turned on the water, waiting for it to get warm. It never did. Hmm... So I called the help desk and they explained that there was a fire outside the hotel and they were waiting on the city to tell them whether or not they could turn one of their boilers back on. Doh! So I had to go without my hot shower for the day. Not the best way to start.

I'm sitting in bed here in the hotel doing a little reading in two of my favorite purchases, the New English Translation of the Septuagint and Hengel's The Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ, and realize that I have some SBL updating to do. So here I am, giving you my summary of the happenings of Sunday. Later tonight or tomorrow morning I'll post on today's highlights.

Today was the first actual day of SBL for me. It began bright and early at 9:00 with the first meeting of the Computer Assisted Research section.

Thankfully, the rest of the trip was without incident. I got on my plane and arrived in Boston on time. I then promptly checked into my room and got that hot shower that I had been needing. Then I tried to find a steak. After walking up and down Boylston several times (in 30 degree weather in high winds) without finding the Mortons I had heard was down there somewhere, I went to Smith and Wollensky and had that really nice birthday steak. And it was a good steak, though not as good as Papas Bros. They were nice enough to also bring me a birthday desert. Of course I just blew much of my food budget with that one meal, but I have a supply of pop tarts, snickers and chips to help keep the food cost down over the next few days :)

Now I am back in my room ready to snooze. I need to get plenty of rest; my mind needs to be totally sharp when I do my book browsing!

So tomorrow the presentations begin. I am very excited. Woot!

I tell ya, my fortunes have not been spectacular. It started with three weeks of little sleep. It continued with a B-Day yesterday that had a number of mishaps (was supposed to have a nice steak for lunch, we had an emergency release at work so I had to stay late on my birthday, dinner at the local brazilian churrascaria was not very spectacular, my hot water heater started leaking water profusely and I didn't get to bed till about 12:30 because of packing).