[we're the same strange animal]

Headache-y and sick, partially due to lack of medication. Damn. Tomorrow, I swear I'll take my morning dosages. I swear.

Am already hating my Nutrition and the Athelete class. Honestly, everything you need to know about nutrition and atheletics can be summed up thusly: eat healthy, have energy, perform better. But no. No, I need this class to graduate. And they're going to make me cook. With surly juvenile delinquents, no less. Well. I sense death in the future, though I'm not sure whose.

Also have the true beginnings of a cold, courtesy of my father. If it's worse tomorrow, I probably won't be able to make it into school. Nurg. Didn't really want to get out of bed this morning, but figured it might be in bad form to miss the first day of the new semester. *snifflecough*

Started SI fic last night. Dunno how it's going to turn out. So far... it's... eh. I think my writing is suffering for some reason that I have yet to determine. Bleh. Maybe it's suffering because I'm a better artist than I am a writer? And I'm not even a very good artist. *end self-pity moment*

Have also determined that "1 Kings 18" is actually the first of a series of bible fics. DAMN. I like it too much to just toss it aside, but don't like it enough to feel excited about putting in extra effort. *will be searching the 'net for more relevant biblical passages, which we all know is simply one of my favorite activities*

To: The cornerstone of modern Christianity.
RE: Being irritatingly incomprehensible.

I can't make head or tails of you. Let's work on this, shall we?

Love,
Me

I dug one of my Bibles out of the basement (I steal from the Gideons). I've spent the last two hours trying to figure some of this stuff out. Mostly I'm irritated at a lack of analysis (on the web, at least) of spirituals and gospel music. So far I've found one interpretation of "Wade in the Water" as a reference to Moses parting the Red Sea (which makes sense, though my initial reaction was that of baptismal) and this scriptural reference in "Elijah Rock":

"Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank." Numbers 20:11

Which seems likely, except that I'm still unclear on the connection between Elijah and Moses. They appear together once, as far as I can tell, and that's briefly in the book of Matthew somewhere. So why is the song based upon an act of Moses (and not a very positive one at that, when taken in context) but makes continual allusions to Elijah?

So far, the most helpful thing I've been able to find is this article that compares Moses and Elijah. They also mention that Moses would refer to Christ as a 'Rock', which makes even more sense in the context of that song. Unfortunately, I'm not entirely coherent right now due to cold and headache and I'm not sure how much of this I'm actually absorbing.

This site is also entertaining and helpful, as if contains pretty much the entire Bible online. And you can ignore the annotations if you wish.

I'm going to write this series even if it kills me. I will. I'm thinking of going from a passage focusing highly on Elijah (in other words, what "1 Kings 18" is), to a sort of segueway of comparison between Elijah and Moses (where that'll come from, I have no idea. I suspect "Elijah Rock", though I don't really want to use it), to Moses parting the Red Sea (which ties in fairly well to a "Wade in the Water" fic I had planned about conversations in the rain... "Exodus 14", anyone?), to (and this is a big maybe) a final (very short) ending piece in Revelations.

In fact, now that I think about it, it might be good to do a (again, very short) Genesis prequel.

And the entire adventure shall be called "Hoppity-skipping Through the Bible in Five Easy Steps!"

Look, these are mostly notes to myself. But I'd really appreciate any feedback, corrections, ideas, and supplimentals other people would care to give me. When I started typing last night... I seriously had no fucking idea this'd become such a huge project. >__> And I know you people out there have opinions.