I hear the weather's warm out there

Well, it's official. The Advisor won't let me defend my proposal until next semester begins, meaning until after January 17. It's really discouraging. I just want to be done with this thing.

Two Christmas/Holiday parties today and I am beat. Here's the conversation I had with a fundamentalist at a dinner party tonight concerning (what else?) the dissertation:

Him: Have you considered doing a comparison of the Congo today with Israel at the time of the book of Judges?
Me (choking on drink): Um. No.
Him: You really should. It sounds like there are a lot of parallels.

He then proceeded to ask if I'd found Christian community in the Congo, to ask whether I'd be doing missionary work there, and to contend that most people are Muslim in a country that's 90% Christian. Thank goodness for KVET's 80's at 8 - I needed to hear Don Williams singing a song I love on the way home from that.