Schedule-shuffle
So, after attending all my classes, I realized that this semester ain't gonna be no piece o' cake, by any stretch, mostly due to the (point-filled, necessary, and useful) rigors of Business Finance (additional difficulty added by the fact that I can't read the essential eTextbook I purchased, because it dislikes my Mac. Plan is to go to school PC, download, convert to plain text, and mail to myself), and that the one-credit Astronomy laboratory, which demands four-page papers every week and two twenty-page term projects, had to go. Instead, I picked up a Florida Geology lab, to be attended on Friday, which sounds much more down-to-earth (haha) and much more in the vein of my normal activities anyway. Hike, poke around in the dirt, take pictures of the dirt, etc.
Not to say that Business Finance won't still be a doozy, even after I get the textbook into a readable format.
Plus, yikes! My iPod has given up the ghost he clung thinly to for so long, and after tearing it apart to see if I could fix it myself and then realizing 1) I couldn't and 2) buying a new one would be cheaper than having anyone else fix it, I bought a new one, a Creative Zen Nano, a 1GB little dealie that will hold plenty of songs to run on. I don't carry it for any purpose other than running, preferring not to drown out productive thought and other people with a constant soundtrack, so another full-blown iPod would have been pointless and far too expensive.
Trying to quell a disturbing impulse, once I got back to Florida, to socialize simply so I wouldn't have to be alone, after the perfect, peaceful, at-home family life of Colorado. Gainesville is a much colder place for me, since it doesn't hold home or family, but I had found a very happy equilibrium in making myself and God my home and family, and not letting the setting matter so much. Now, have I lost that? It's on the brink of my consciousness, but if I continue pushing it out with the distraction of other people, I might just lose it.
Not to say that Business Finance won't still be a doozy, even after I get the textbook into a readable format.
Plus, yikes! My iPod has given up the ghost he clung thinly to for so long, and after tearing it apart to see if I could fix it myself and then realizing 1) I couldn't and 2) buying a new one would be cheaper than having anyone else fix it, I bought a new one, a Creative Zen Nano, a 1GB little dealie that will hold plenty of songs to run on. I don't carry it for any purpose other than running, preferring not to drown out productive thought and other people with a constant soundtrack, so another full-blown iPod would have been pointless and far too expensive.
Trying to quell a disturbing impulse, once I got back to Florida, to socialize simply so I wouldn't have to be alone, after the perfect, peaceful, at-home family life of Colorado. Gainesville is a much colder place for me, since it doesn't hold home or family, but I had found a very happy equilibrium in making myself and God my home and family, and not letting the setting matter so much. Now, have I lost that? It's on the brink of my consciousness, but if I continue pushing it out with the distraction of other people, I might just lose it.