It’s 3:13 AM and I’ve got one single-spaced page done for my RELI286 paper, due at noon. This is the last of the three papers that were due Friday, Sunday, and now today. That means that I won’t have to think of another paper for at least a week! w00t.
I’ve discovered that Peppermint Schnapps is a delicious tool for making the words flow. Consumed in small quantities, it really lubricates the gears of the mind. Yet, it also leads me to question whether some of my sentences are as profound as I think they are… or if they’re just verbal garbage:
This hierarchical formulation was not only an important justification for these early Christian thinkers; it also reflects the wider structure that they were attempting to construct for the developing church. In parallel to the authority conferred on divine truth by virtue of its hierarchical lineage, so too would church authority be determined by the specific lineage of apostolic succession—a kind of ancestral hierarchy that served as a continually lengthening string of legitimization of church authority.
Meh. I like it. 
NOTE (5:41 AM): I’ve finally spilled onto the fifth page, and have a few more things to add, so I’m right where I need to be. I’ve converted all my footnotes to endnotes to buy some extra space. A spider is crawling across the bottom of my bulletin board on the wall in front of me, and the sky is lighting up outside my window—something I haven’t seen in a very long time. The gradient across the sky right now is beautiful.
I’m going to see a sunrise!
NOTE (6:23 AM): The sky is light. The paper is printed. My three-papers-in-six-days ordeal is over. And once I get some sleep, things will be beautiful (especially, relatively so). I can’t decide if I should take a two-hour nap, or just stay up and go on with my day…
