Metal Band Promised Land
Heavy metal meets heavy doctrine, plus other miscellaneous observations and hobbies of a Mormon Gen X'er.

I finished regular law school classes. I took my last final exam last week. All that stands between me and graduation in mid-January is a long paper and one week class. I am working on the paper now and hope to have it substantially complete shortly after New Years Day.

So what am I going to do with all my “free” time, now that I don’t have night class? My wife is afraid that I will become a couch potatoe, seeing as how two days ago I upgraded our TV package from the cheap family channels only to the 150 channels. I only did that because I wanted ESPN. It is bowl game season and my father in law is coming for a week, and he must have ESPN, otherwise I would be much less than a considerate, gracious host.

Free time is relative. Rather than ask what to do with my new time, I am asking what have I been neglecting because of law school? That would be, in no particular order: exercise, sleep, playing with my kids, religious study.  I still have to study for and pass a state bar exam, which will occupy most of my summer.

I also want to get back to better blogging. I am going to put a music player on this blog to expose some very cool music. I am going to be posting some stuff about Abraham, The Hittites and ancient Mesopotamian history & archaeology, and the struggle between modern religion and secularism. I also want to live blog my way through Cleon Skousen’s The 5,000 Year Leap.  (This book was published in 1981 and yet today is #431 on the Amazon best seller list! Most books I look at on Amazon rank around the 1.5 millionth range.)

So stay tuned, all five of you faithful readers out there, 2010 is going to be exciting times on metalbandpromisedland!