update
hmmm. i want to update, but feel like i have nothing to write.
though - ali, i'm listening to NEW ani difranco songs that are not on the cd you made me. particularly fire door... cause it's on my roomie's computer.
well i've been here for two weeks and i would say a lot has happened. i moved into my very first apartment so now i'm building up some more credit and real world know and experience. i just put our electric bill in my name! ahhhh. exciting. i have to decide by monday whether or not i want to stay here again for 2006-2007 or go back on campus. i guess it doesn't really matter much. it has its advantages, but it also has its disadvantages. i guess it's going to depend on whether living on campus or living here would be cheaper. we did get rid of our mice, but i'm sure they will be back eventually. we have not however gotten rid of the dudes who sleep/eat/booze on our stoop, but whatever.
it's a little scary here right now cause two kids were just stabbed on wednesday night like 50 feet from my apartment. the two kids were students from loyola, new orleans that bc took under for the semester while things down there get back in order. it really sucks that you have to come all the way to boston and then get stabbed.... it's really ridiculous. and cleveland circle isn't really a scary place i would say. i don't feel any less safe because of the stabbing. i think it was just kind of a freak thing. i still walk home from wherever i was partying at between the hours of 12 AM and 8 AM... yes i did walk home at 7 AM yesterday.... whatever, i had a good night :o)
my classes are a-freaking-mazing. analytical chemistry isn't really exciting at all and i think it is really a waste of time for it to have its own genre of chemistry, but whatever. i don't ever want to do 8 titrations in a 3 hour period again. if you ever took some higher level of chemistry, you'll know that titrations are a pain in the fucking neck... literally. my neck hurt. so then i have european history, which is actually interesting, because my professor is an amazing goofy pudgy man who is like obsessed with what he does and shows us everything historical through art, music, politics... it's real cool. then i have biochemistry, which because i'm a huge geek, love. proteins are cool!!! then i have spirituality and sexuality, which is AMAZING. it's with my favorite professor at BC.. it's a once a week discussion course. it's about finding connections between spirituality and sexuality.... investigating the typical "christian sexual ethic" bias.... it's trying to think about yourself more sexually and spiritually and about thinking about them together.... through relationships with others and with god... it's really cool. i've only had one class of it, but our first discussion was way cool.
and my last class is perspectives on war/aggression/conflict resolution. i love it. i leave that class so pissed off every time, which lets me know that i actually care about things and really want to be in that class learning. we just read a book by chris hedges, which i recommend to every american, "war is a force that gives us meaning." the first two weeks of class, we talked about the myths of war and the war mentality, how america is becoming a militaristic society, and how nobody gives a shit. we also heard from a few speakers with an anti-war, but pro-military view. the one guy who lectured us this week was totally cool, definitely a very opinionated and very passionate, extreme liberal, which i thoroughly enjoyed. he talked about the social structure and social controls on war and peace, and gave us a historical typology of war. super interesting, but i probably won't write my final paper on any of it. it's really annoying me that all we do is talk and kind of say "oh well." i wanna know what people are going to do about the fact that americans are uneducated about a lot of things or biased or gullible and manipulated by the media/government. i can't even explain the class. it's amazing.
the one thing the class did help with was realizing that greg and i probably would have fought a lot if we actually had whatever we were trying to have... maybe he was right when saying some people just aren't compatible, but i don't know if i can fully believe that yet. i'm young, i have the rest of my life to find perfection, right now i wanna learn what i don't like and learn to like things i thought i didn't like too.
sooooo. boys. um. i hooked up with chris thursday nite. this would be the boy i was hooking up at the end of the year last year. chris is actually in my perspectives on war/aggression/conflict resolution class because he is a faith, peace, and justice studies minor like me, which makes me giddy. he actually talks in class unlike me who hasn't found anything of substance to say yet because i am not as studied in the details of various wars like a lot of people in my class seem to be, but anyway, he talks and he's fascinating.
can i just say i looked gorgeous thursday nite. it was olivia's birthday party and we had a prom theme, took prom pictures and showed up to the party wearing dresses... it rocked. we bought her an ice luge which we all had mega fun with. pictures hopefully will be up next month when i get my computer back and olivia sends me the pics from her computer.
today is a huge football game, we're playing florida state in our inaugural ACC game. fsu is 8th in the nation so if we beat them, which we will.... shit is going to be crazy.... too bad i can't drink... whatever, i had plenty of drinking fun last weekend against army. i'm just going to go stuff my face at tailgates. which will be awesome.
last nite, i heard senator barack obama speak. gosh darn he is handsome! and his speech was amazing and he should run for president. he might be the only politician that made sense to me, not that i've heard a lot of politicians. though i'm still skeptical of politics. truth is something it seems to lack. i was a little disappointed with the way he handled a question about the conflict going on in darfur, sudan right now and disappointed with what he said about kanye west.... cause i don't think bush gives a shit about black people either. but he did make a good point about the fact that the administration took way too long to respond to katrina, but they take too long with everything so whatever... the only thing they are good at being forceful with is invading other people's countries without thinking about the consequences and trying to "democratize" and "americanize" them without understanding the flipping culture over there or trying some diplomacy before killing way too many soldiers and iraqi civilians... but hey whatever, we gotta find all the terrorists though we seem to be ignoring the fact that we're terrorists ourselves. in fact i think we were the first terrorists, cause i mean we did drop two atomic bombs on japan and obliterate or kill slowly thousands upon thousands of people. i don't really see the difference between an atomic bomb and a suicide airplane mission. there just different tactics that give way to the same conclusion.... murder.
wow this update took a pretty morbid turn.
i miss you guys at home. it's crazy that it i've only been here two weeks, i feel like i've been here forever. i'm dying to see your faces again, but that will be forever.
oh i'm starting up in the lab again next week and getting paid and continuing to do my project from the summer and probably another project on the side.... i got a raise too woohoo!!! and there are new people in the lab woohoo!!
though - ali, i'm listening to NEW ani difranco songs that are not on the cd you made me. particularly fire door... cause it's on my roomie's computer.
well i've been here for two weeks and i would say a lot has happened. i moved into my very first apartment so now i'm building up some more credit and real world know and experience. i just put our electric bill in my name! ahhhh. exciting. i have to decide by monday whether or not i want to stay here again for 2006-2007 or go back on campus. i guess it doesn't really matter much. it has its advantages, but it also has its disadvantages. i guess it's going to depend on whether living on campus or living here would be cheaper. we did get rid of our mice, but i'm sure they will be back eventually. we have not however gotten rid of the dudes who sleep/eat/booze on our stoop, but whatever.
it's a little scary here right now cause two kids were just stabbed on wednesday night like 50 feet from my apartment. the two kids were students from loyola, new orleans that bc took under for the semester while things down there get back in order. it really sucks that you have to come all the way to boston and then get stabbed.... it's really ridiculous. and cleveland circle isn't really a scary place i would say. i don't feel any less safe because of the stabbing. i think it was just kind of a freak thing. i still walk home from wherever i was partying at between the hours of 12 AM and 8 AM... yes i did walk home at 7 AM yesterday.... whatever, i had a good night :o)
my classes are a-freaking-mazing. analytical chemistry isn't really exciting at all and i think it is really a waste of time for it to have its own genre of chemistry, but whatever. i don't ever want to do 8 titrations in a 3 hour period again. if you ever took some higher level of chemistry, you'll know that titrations are a pain in the fucking neck... literally. my neck hurt. so then i have european history, which is actually interesting, because my professor is an amazing goofy pudgy man who is like obsessed with what he does and shows us everything historical through art, music, politics... it's real cool. then i have biochemistry, which because i'm a huge geek, love. proteins are cool!!! then i have spirituality and sexuality, which is AMAZING. it's with my favorite professor at BC.. it's a once a week discussion course. it's about finding connections between spirituality and sexuality.... investigating the typical "christian sexual ethic" bias.... it's trying to think about yourself more sexually and spiritually and about thinking about them together.... through relationships with others and with god... it's really cool. i've only had one class of it, but our first discussion was way cool.
and my last class is perspectives on war/aggression/conflict resolution. i love it. i leave that class so pissed off every time, which lets me know that i actually care about things and really want to be in that class learning. we just read a book by chris hedges, which i recommend to every american, "war is a force that gives us meaning." the first two weeks of class, we talked about the myths of war and the war mentality, how america is becoming a militaristic society, and how nobody gives a shit. we also heard from a few speakers with an anti-war, but pro-military view. the one guy who lectured us this week was totally cool, definitely a very opinionated and very passionate, extreme liberal, which i thoroughly enjoyed. he talked about the social structure and social controls on war and peace, and gave us a historical typology of war. super interesting, but i probably won't write my final paper on any of it. it's really annoying me that all we do is talk and kind of say "oh well." i wanna know what people are going to do about the fact that americans are uneducated about a lot of things or biased or gullible and manipulated by the media/government. i can't even explain the class. it's amazing.
the one thing the class did help with was realizing that greg and i probably would have fought a lot if we actually had whatever we were trying to have... maybe he was right when saying some people just aren't compatible, but i don't know if i can fully believe that yet. i'm young, i have the rest of my life to find perfection, right now i wanna learn what i don't like and learn to like things i thought i didn't like too.
sooooo. boys. um. i hooked up with chris thursday nite. this would be the boy i was hooking up at the end of the year last year. chris is actually in my perspectives on war/aggression/conflict resolution class because he is a faith, peace, and justice studies minor like me, which makes me giddy. he actually talks in class unlike me who hasn't found anything of substance to say yet because i am not as studied in the details of various wars like a lot of people in my class seem to be, but anyway, he talks and he's fascinating.
can i just say i looked gorgeous thursday nite. it was olivia's birthday party and we had a prom theme, took prom pictures and showed up to the party wearing dresses... it rocked. we bought her an ice luge which we all had mega fun with. pictures hopefully will be up next month when i get my computer back and olivia sends me the pics from her computer.
today is a huge football game, we're playing florida state in our inaugural ACC game. fsu is 8th in the nation so if we beat them, which we will.... shit is going to be crazy.... too bad i can't drink... whatever, i had plenty of drinking fun last weekend against army. i'm just going to go stuff my face at tailgates. which will be awesome.
last nite, i heard senator barack obama speak. gosh darn he is handsome! and his speech was amazing and he should run for president. he might be the only politician that made sense to me, not that i've heard a lot of politicians. though i'm still skeptical of politics. truth is something it seems to lack. i was a little disappointed with the way he handled a question about the conflict going on in darfur, sudan right now and disappointed with what he said about kanye west.... cause i don't think bush gives a shit about black people either. but he did make a good point about the fact that the administration took way too long to respond to katrina, but they take too long with everything so whatever... the only thing they are good at being forceful with is invading other people's countries without thinking about the consequences and trying to "democratize" and "americanize" them without understanding the flipping culture over there or trying some diplomacy before killing way too many soldiers and iraqi civilians... but hey whatever, we gotta find all the terrorists though we seem to be ignoring the fact that we're terrorists ourselves. in fact i think we were the first terrorists, cause i mean we did drop two atomic bombs on japan and obliterate or kill slowly thousands upon thousands of people. i don't really see the difference between an atomic bomb and a suicide airplane mission. there just different tactics that give way to the same conclusion.... murder.
wow this update took a pretty morbid turn.
i miss you guys at home. it's crazy that it i've only been here two weeks, i feel like i've been here forever. i'm dying to see your faces again, but that will be forever.
oh i'm starting up in the lab again next week and getting paid and continuing to do my project from the summer and probably another project on the side.... i got a raise too woohoo!!! and there are new people in the lab woohoo!!