My more than token post for the month
I've kept meaning to blog for the last several days so hopefully this will be a good one. With body and actual content.
First thing is first, everyone needs to come ogle my amazing layout. Complete with moodtheme and other sexah things.
Wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday, the week seemed to be dragging on and then it zoomed to a finish. I'm finally going to get DSL at my house come hell or high water. Woohoo! It's been a very tiring week. I'm glad its going to be the weekend, Saturday is going to be nice. Lots of sleeping. Anyway lets go back and give an overview of the week. Monday was busy as I tried to get my schedule re-arranged, and I hung out with Michael and finished downloading the anthologies and watched my Beatles youtube clips. Tuesday was nice I got to sleep in some, but despite my lazy self I did make it to the bank and I bought all of my books. So I am set for ze semester. Wednesday there wasn't much that was exciting. I saw Tina and we sat in the Union for a while, and then I took my laptop to Computers by Campus in hopes they can fix the cd-rom. I was really hoping they would call me to come and get it today but no luck, and so if I don't get a call tomorrow by the time I'm done working I'm going to go see them and ask them how its going. Of course I got the power cord to the them later in the day yesterday so I probably shouldn't have expected much today.
Today was nice because we actually started learning things in my classes. Unfortunately Astronomy was a bit of a review, but that's because its the first chapter. Though it doesn't fail to make me feel entirely insignificant in the universe. The universe is so big, and continually expanding and humanity is a blip in the existence of the universe. Then in the great scheme of humanity each person is just a blip in existence as well. It's quite humbling. However, one of my friends from my creative writing class is in that class, and so that is exciting. I am not alone! Lol. Mandy is in my Psych 335 class (Prejudice and Discrimination) and Michael is of course in my Psych 203 (Research Methods class). I saw Tina again, and we had dinner together (which was free thanks to her church, and it was KFC [yum]), woohoo! It's really weird, somehow we managed to never see each other last semester and we've seen each other twice this week and the semester has just begun. Life is weird like that huh?
I also had to work this week of course, which was just as much fun as usual *sarcasm*. Fortunately, I don't have to work for long tomorrow, but one of my co-workers totally got hit by a car. (As in he was crossing the street and it ran into him). What are the freakin' odds, poor guy. He's got like broken bones and a neck brace and the whole nine yards. Last I heard he's going to be okay, but its quite serious. That's one thing I don't like about campus a ton of cars, and an equal number of people who just aren't paying close enough attention. It's like what was said in The Great Gatsby, something like it doesn't matter if she is a bad driver until she meets another bad driver. Gatsby was quite an enjoyable book.
Anyway I'm going to chip in for whatever Dot is going to send him. It's just mind boggling.
Anyway back to happy things...
The most exciting and pleasing thing about tonight was buying my plane ticket for California. Summer vacation '08 here I come!! Now if it would only get here faster. I can't wait for Love in Vegas! Not to mention ComicCon for the win!!! Plus other things of greatness like movie-watching, and chill time and so on and so forth. It's going to be uber amazing.
Tomorrow is another day. I have English, and then I have to go to work (alas) and then the day is mine, but I have errands to run and DSL to acquire. *rubs hands together*. Hopefully I shall reclaim my laptop, and it will work beautifully forever and always. I really need to get a skin for it so it looks less beat up, maybe I could buy a Disney one. I'm sure I could find something awesome (like Nightmare) I want that on DVD so bad. Maybe I could find it on E-bay or Amazon for cheaper now that 'tis no longer the season.
Just for fun, I can't tell if I'm becoming more cynical or if just being tired has made me more annoyed recently and I just think I'm more cynical. Maybe its a side effect of being a psychology major, and all of the revelations of human nature. I mean it just seems to be a pessimistic situation the human condition. It's like you dare not trust anyone, and even if you think you can then you can't. This is not spurred by any recent personal experiences by the way, I'm just extrapolating and hypothesizing. Maybe I'm just becoming gradually more aware of the heuristics we use in everyday life now that I've been made aware of them. I mean we categorize everything so we can forget it or reference it later. We make thousands and thousands of decisions in a day and we don't even realize it. All of the things we discount in making a decision in getting coffee or what have you.
I don't know. It just seems strange. Maybe its just getting older. I mean not that turning 20 has just suddenly changed my perceptions in the world, but is a gradual awareness we all gain; like when we learn Santa Clause isn't real (of course in some cases in can be shocking and earth shattering depending on how it comes out, hopefully one day I will avoid traumatizing my children anyway...). In any case we all have schemas about the world works, well different things have different schemas. We either assimilate information into our existing schema and make it fit with what knowledge we have or we...oh dear what's the word? I can't remember but the term refers to the fact that rather fitting these new facts into pre-existing schemas we change the schema to fit the new information. I think it also starts with an 'a'; however, I have no desire to go thumbing through a dictionary or thesaurus or my Psych 120 textbook. Maybe Michael will think of it (if you got this far), and anyway I think my schemas often fall into the latter group. I don't know if its open-mindedness or generational, or perhaps something in my personality but you notice things and your ideas and opinions change.
In fact you continually expand your schemas and form new ones. I think its just life experience. I'm cynical, because life will continue to bite me in the ass regardless of what I do, well almost. There are some proactive solutions one can take. It's just a matter of timing.
Well its sleep time for me. Goodniiiight.
First thing is first, everyone needs to come ogle my amazing layout. Complete with moodtheme and other sexah things.
Wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday, the week seemed to be dragging on and then it zoomed to a finish. I'm finally going to get DSL at my house come hell or high water. Woohoo! It's been a very tiring week. I'm glad its going to be the weekend, Saturday is going to be nice. Lots of sleeping. Anyway lets go back and give an overview of the week. Monday was busy as I tried to get my schedule re-arranged, and I hung out with Michael and finished downloading the anthologies and watched my Beatles youtube clips. Tuesday was nice I got to sleep in some, but despite my lazy self I did make it to the bank and I bought all of my books. So I am set for ze semester. Wednesday there wasn't much that was exciting. I saw Tina and we sat in the Union for a while, and then I took my laptop to Computers by Campus in hopes they can fix the cd-rom. I was really hoping they would call me to come and get it today but no luck, and so if I don't get a call tomorrow by the time I'm done working I'm going to go see them and ask them how its going. Of course I got the power cord to the them later in the day yesterday so I probably shouldn't have expected much today.
Today was nice because we actually started learning things in my classes. Unfortunately Astronomy was a bit of a review, but that's because its the first chapter. Though it doesn't fail to make me feel entirely insignificant in the universe. The universe is so big, and continually expanding and humanity is a blip in the existence of the universe. Then in the great scheme of humanity each person is just a blip in existence as well. It's quite humbling. However, one of my friends from my creative writing class is in that class, and so that is exciting. I am not alone! Lol. Mandy is in my Psych 335 class (Prejudice and Discrimination) and Michael is of course in my Psych 203 (Research Methods class). I saw Tina again, and we had dinner together (which was free thanks to her church, and it was KFC [yum]), woohoo! It's really weird, somehow we managed to never see each other last semester and we've seen each other twice this week and the semester has just begun. Life is weird like that huh?
I also had to work this week of course, which was just as much fun as usual *sarcasm*. Fortunately, I don't have to work for long tomorrow, but one of my co-workers totally got hit by a car. (As in he was crossing the street and it ran into him). What are the freakin' odds, poor guy. He's got like broken bones and a neck brace and the whole nine yards. Last I heard he's going to be okay, but its quite serious. That's one thing I don't like about campus a ton of cars, and an equal number of people who just aren't paying close enough attention. It's like what was said in The Great Gatsby, something like it doesn't matter if she is a bad driver until she meets another bad driver. Gatsby was quite an enjoyable book.
Anyway I'm going to chip in for whatever Dot is going to send him. It's just mind boggling.
Anyway back to happy things...
The most exciting and pleasing thing about tonight was buying my plane ticket for California. Summer vacation '08 here I come!! Now if it would only get here faster. I can't wait for Love in Vegas! Not to mention ComicCon for the win!!! Plus other things of greatness like movie-watching, and chill time and so on and so forth. It's going to be uber amazing.
Tomorrow is another day. I have English, and then I have to go to work (alas) and then the day is mine, but I have errands to run and DSL to acquire. *rubs hands together*. Hopefully I shall reclaim my laptop, and it will work beautifully forever and always. I really need to get a skin for it so it looks less beat up, maybe I could buy a Disney one. I'm sure I could find something awesome (like Nightmare) I want that on DVD so bad. Maybe I could find it on E-bay or Amazon for cheaper now that 'tis no longer the season.
Just for fun, I can't tell if I'm becoming more cynical or if just being tired has made me more annoyed recently and I just think I'm more cynical. Maybe its a side effect of being a psychology major, and all of the revelations of human nature. I mean it just seems to be a pessimistic situation the human condition. It's like you dare not trust anyone, and even if you think you can then you can't. This is not spurred by any recent personal experiences by the way, I'm just extrapolating and hypothesizing. Maybe I'm just becoming gradually more aware of the heuristics we use in everyday life now that I've been made aware of them. I mean we categorize everything so we can forget it or reference it later. We make thousands and thousands of decisions in a day and we don't even realize it. All of the things we discount in making a decision in getting coffee or what have you.
I don't know. It just seems strange. Maybe its just getting older. I mean not that turning 20 has just suddenly changed my perceptions in the world, but is a gradual awareness we all gain; like when we learn Santa Clause isn't real (of course in some cases in can be shocking and earth shattering depending on how it comes out, hopefully one day I will avoid traumatizing my children anyway...). In any case we all have schemas about the world works, well different things have different schemas. We either assimilate information into our existing schema and make it fit with what knowledge we have or we...oh dear what's the word? I can't remember but the term refers to the fact that rather fitting these new facts into pre-existing schemas we change the schema to fit the new information. I think it also starts with an 'a'; however, I have no desire to go thumbing through a dictionary or thesaurus or my Psych 120 textbook. Maybe Michael will think of it (if you got this far), and anyway I think my schemas often fall into the latter group. I don't know if its open-mindedness or generational, or perhaps something in my personality but you notice things and your ideas and opinions change.
In fact you continually expand your schemas and form new ones. I think its just life experience. I'm cynical, because life will continue to bite me in the ass regardless of what I do, well almost. There are some proactive solutions one can take. It's just a matter of timing.
Well its sleep time for me. Goodniiiight.