I only got two hours of sleep last night, so I won't be coming in to work today. Pray that I will recover quickly. I've been sick for over 2 weeks now, and the start of grad school is only about two weeks away. Of course, that's one of the main causes of my stress. At least I was able to find an apartment last night....

So after getting some good rest today, I'm feeling a lot better. Lord willing, I'll be able to do the things tomorrow that I need to get done. Anyway, here's my advice for the day: if you don't have ICE (In Case of Emergency) numbers on your cellphone, preferably with the word ICE prefixed with a number (so that they show up at the top of your contact list), I would recommend you do so. I just recently read the unfortunately-named CNN.com Health article If you get hit by a bus tomorrow, which is a good checklist of health and safety things to take care of at all times....

In order for a psychologist to properly understand the work of artists with mental illness, he would also have to be an artist with mental illness....

So I was looking for several weeks for an apartment for the Fall. And now I have one, and it's clean, it's with someone I know (and his roommate), and it's not going to break the bank. That's one less thing to be concerned about now. I should learn to trust God's provision more, rather than imagining all the worst-case scenarios (i.e., living in my car or the BU library)....

After writing my post on Thomas Aquinas and the forms of love, I thought I should follow up with one of my favorite quotes from C.S. Lewis' The Four Loves, that, while not rigorous, expresses some key distinctions between types of human love: Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appreciative love says: "We give thanks to thee for thy great glory." Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all. I would like to re-write the quote so that it would speak of...