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I have been to each and every one of my classes and I honest to God think I'm going to like them all. Even the dummy math I tested into. (It's mostly review, so it shouldn't be that bad.) I think that I'll have the most trouble with Abnormal Psychology, but Psych is a difficult subject in general. Class starts at 10:00 every day (Except Thursday), so I get to sleep in an hour. An hour might not seem like much, but I'm freakin' grateful anyway.
I've also updated my "Things to get once I have $$$Money$$$" list. There are a lot of books on it. They all look really interesting and some should be just difficult enough to be challenging, but not enough to be over-whelming.
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) (Hardcover)
Here, Bullet (Brian Turner)
The Myth of Sisyphus : And Other Essays (Albert Camus) (Paperback)
Lazarus (Rashid Darden)
The Chronicles of Narnia Complete Box Set (C. S. Lewis) (Hardcover)
The Romantic Manifesto (Ayn Rand)
Becoming Strangers (Louise Dean)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
I Wrote This Song (Dayne Avery)
I really, really want The Myth of Sisyphus and Lazarus. Lazarus is a novel about Adrian, a young man in college with a father who abandoned him and a mother he's emotionally distant from. He feels his life is empty until he meets Savion, who is full to brimming with love and stability. But as their friendship becomes closer and closer, Adriens frat brothers become more and more hostile. In the end, he must choose between the one he loves and his brothers. Doesn't that sound satisfying????
As for The Myth of Sisyphus, that's an essay by Albert Camus about the cost of a human life. Is it worth taking? Especially by the one living it? Yes, the essay is a carefully written, critic approved essay about suicide. His example is the mythological Sisyphus. He considers Sisyphus an absurd hero. He was sentenced for the crime of loving life too much; he defied the gods and fought death. The gods thought they found a perfect form of torture for Sisyphus. He would constantly hope for success, that the stone would remain at the top of the mountain. This, the gods thought, would forever frustrate him.
Yet, defying the gods again, Sisyphus is without hope. He abandons any illusion that he might succeed at the assigned task. Once he does so, Camus considers him a hero in the fullest sense of the word. Sisyphus begins to view his ability to do the task again and again, to endure the punishment, as a form of victory.
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. We have to imagine Sisyphus happy."
Yay! Funness. :)
Anyway, I should go. I still have some stuff to do tonight.
G'night, all!
I've also updated my "Things to get once I have $$$Money$$$" list. There are a lot of books on it. They all look really interesting and some should be just difficult enough to be challenging, but not enough to be over-whelming.
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) (Hardcover)
Here, Bullet (Brian Turner)
The Myth of Sisyphus : And Other Essays (Albert Camus) (Paperback)
Lazarus (Rashid Darden)
The Chronicles of Narnia Complete Box Set (C. S. Lewis) (Hardcover)
The Romantic Manifesto (Ayn Rand)
Becoming Strangers (Louise Dean)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
I Wrote This Song (Dayne Avery)
I really, really want The Myth of Sisyphus and Lazarus. Lazarus is a novel about Adrian, a young man in college with a father who abandoned him and a mother he's emotionally distant from. He feels his life is empty until he meets Savion, who is full to brimming with love and stability. But as their friendship becomes closer and closer, Adriens frat brothers become more and more hostile. In the end, he must choose between the one he loves and his brothers. Doesn't that sound satisfying????
As for The Myth of Sisyphus, that's an essay by Albert Camus about the cost of a human life. Is it worth taking? Especially by the one living it? Yes, the essay is a carefully written, critic approved essay about suicide. His example is the mythological Sisyphus. He considers Sisyphus an absurd hero. He was sentenced for the crime of loving life too much; he defied the gods and fought death. The gods thought they found a perfect form of torture for Sisyphus. He would constantly hope for success, that the stone would remain at the top of the mountain. This, the gods thought, would forever frustrate him.
Yet, defying the gods again, Sisyphus is without hope. He abandons any illusion that he might succeed at the assigned task. Once he does so, Camus considers him a hero in the fullest sense of the word. Sisyphus begins to view his ability to do the task again and again, to endure the punishment, as a form of victory.
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. We have to imagine Sisyphus happy."
Yay! Funness. :)
Anyway, I should go. I still have some stuff to do tonight.
G'night, all!