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i intend on making this entry a couple quick details but i'm sure i'll end up saying more than i plan. My new ipod is so awesome and makes me so happy. i went so long without being able to listen to music at school, and i've realized how much better i work with it in the background. usually not anything with words though if its work music. i've been really interested in classical and (what i call) neoclassical lately as well as alot of ambient stuff that i steal from nathan. i think we might like it for different reasons though. its really interesting to me how thoughts and feelings are conveyed through means other than words. i think this goes hand in hand with alot of the philosophy i started reading about how words are insufficient to explain phenomenon (phenomenon including everything from feelings to scenes unfolding to pretty much anything) and also then alot about how the hegemonic machine uses this insufficientness to be able to establish its dominance. the latter isn't as important as me wondering how to really convey feelings and thoughts and all of that and its really interesting to me. so the ipod kicks ass and i'm filling it with all of my old music and a ton of new music that i've wanted to put on there for a long time but either didn't have and couldn't download at school or once i started really getting into classical and ambient stuff my ipod had broken. also i'm not at all getting used to being at home. i'm still as happy to be here as when i first got off of the plane. college was so much fun and i love it, but being gone for 4 months is a long time and that far from home where everything is different (saying pop, no bluebell, having to drink pepsi, no freeways, etc.) also i'm having trouble finding people with the wide variety of interests that i have in friends here. i've spent the last two nights at agora and i love houston and i love my friends here. also i ran into hayley at Adam's show, she'll want to see that i put that. then amanda and kaitlyn will get jealous and want me to tell the world that i saw them too and we hung out and it was great. we went to taco cabana with nathan too. anyway, i love my ipod, i'm happy to be home, i love college, and tomorrow i'm getting my last grade which i'm almost 100% sure is a 3.5 giving me a 3.5 for the semester while taking 18 credits and that means i can get into the honors college at a big ten school and i think apply for phi beta kappa (although that might not be until you graduate). basically it means more scholarship money for my parents and i get to sign up for classes earlier which is good because all of our philosophy courses fill up really fast. also (and yes, this is me being a total douchebag but i'm going to be really proud of myself and after all i guess to some extent this is my journal so i can record things that other people will hate even though i know they'll read it... i dunno) in 2010 i'll be able to say that "My name is Jason Leva and I graduated from Michigan State University with honors and degrees in International Relations and Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy with a specialization in Muslim Studies." i'm so happy with everything right now.