The deer ran away again. I keep telling them that I’m not going to hurt them. I keep thinking it’d be nice to pet them like you would with a cat or dog. I came around the corner and was startled first by the rock and the tractor head in the middle of the trail. At the entry of the woods were four deer grazing. They looked up and saw me and we did the thing we always do where we stop and freeze and stare at each other.

I didn’t bother to go any farther. I wasn’t really feeling all that up for a walk anyway. On the way back one of the cats came up running with a hummingbird. He dropped it in front of me. I had to take closer look because I couldn’t tell at first if it was a bird or a cicada. It was upside down and struggling to breathe. I’ve told him before he’s supposed to leave those ones alone but it’s almost like they’re just toys to him.

We’ve got one more half-day of our intensive class tomorrow. Thankfully I was scheduled to not have to do any presentations or article reports until tomorrow. I really need to stop putting off this kind of homework. We were saying today that our brains were tired and our professor said it was time for a teaching moment. There are going to be days when you’re falling asleep at 3PM and you’re still going to have to do your job.

I don’t know how people go to work every day like this. You come home and there’s basically no time left to do anything, and if there was you wouldn’t have the energy to do it. Josh asked about going to Knights Action Park tomorrow to try to still get our waterpark visit in. I want to go but I want to go at a time when I will have enough energy. He took the kids to the fair today and they did their normal state fair things.

All this stuff with Jeremiah got me thinking about how much people die every day without fanfare. You wonder why God would take someone like him but that assumes that his life was somehow more valuable, like he was somehow more important than the ones who never were homecoming king or loved by so many. Most people in life never win a single thing and yet God cares about and values their lives just as much.