Yikes — New Students Arrive Today!

New stu­dents arrive on cam­pus today. Yikes!

To Do:

• Brush my teeth real­ly well, includ­ing my tongue so my breath does­n’t stink.
• Shave head. Care­ful­ly. We don’t want a repeat of that inci­dent when I missed a patch and looked like a Who from Whoville.
• Trim edges of beard. The dif­fer­ence between an epic prophet beard and a crazy cult leader beard is sur­pris­ing­ly hard to define, but raggedy beard edges have some­thing to do with it. That, and neck hair. Say no to the throat beard.
• Print lit­er­a­ture for tabling: new stu­dent devo­tion­al guide, Why Jesus? essay, The Jesus FAQ.
• Prac­tice smil­ing in the mir­ror.
• Dou­ble check on throat hair.

P.S. I don’t think I’ve pub­li­cized it here, but I put a new writ­ing online. I men­tion it above in the “print lit­er­a­ture” bul­let point — it’s a ten-day devo­tion­al guide for new stu­dents called Thrive. It, along with all my oth­er writ­ings, is indexed here.