One down, one to go

I gave my sermon for Communication for Ministry today. It went as well as I had hoped. All I really wanted was for it to go as well as I had done when practicing, and out of all my practices, I think that was the best... only it wasn't a practice. I had an idea of what everyone was going to say I needed to do better, and I was right: everyone said it was kind of hard to follow. I had this concept that was pretty central to the point I wanted to make, and after brain storming with a few friends, all I came away with (besides having fresh new ideas in an otherwise stale mindset) were a few illustrations. I wanted to verbalize this concept, but couldn't, so all I could do was almost ramble... so yeah, my biggest problem was structure. Maybe I should have gone in a different direction, but I really had a passion for this concept, so yeah. One reviewer (they all filled out annonymous reviews) was a dick. He gave me a 2 (out of five). It looks like the average was about a 3 1/2 to a 4, which is what I was expecting. On the encouraging side, everyone said I was very confident and relaxed in front of an audience. I already knew I'm a good public speaker, but it's nice to hear people say it.
But, I'm done. Through. Finished. I have to write a 2 page review on my performance, and that class is done for the semester. I really like Buzzell. He's a really good prof.
And now, I'm going to get some work done on my Escapism paper, which is due tomorrow. I need to spend money at Kinkos for a "professional version," which is kind of gay, but whatever.
This semester is coming to a halt very quickly, and although I haven't even though about the other two papers I have to do by the end of the semester (early May) it's nice to check that off. And tomorrow I'll be able to check off my paper. Yeah. I feel pretty good. I'm a good public speaker, and I have good stage presence. And my ideas were really good... just not really organized. ;-)