I'll give you something I already put on facebook!
This was a meme, which someone creates and then sends to other people, who do it and then send it on and so forth. It's almost like a chain letter, but instead of warning you of all of the horrible things that will happen if you don't pass it on, it's just for fun. Some of the older ones have been traveling around on the internet for years! I first heard about this one from Brynne's mom, who got it from one of her friends where she works, etc., etc. Here's the original post I made, with a few errors fixed.
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Bla bla bla, on with the note already. Read me! >:(
Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose up to 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag up to 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
1. I thought long and hard about what to name this note... and I think the result speaks for itself.
2. This note is not, I repeat NOT, an attempt to avoid homework. Crap, 10:00pm already?!
3. This year I'm taking Sociology (to be a sociopath), History of Ethics (to be a bore), Environmental Ethics (make that a self-righteous bore), and Spanish (¡y un aburridor!)
4. Right now I'm listening to the always-excellent Carlos Santana.
5. I only feel slightly guilty that my exercise regimen is based entirely on Wii Sports.
6. If #5 isn't proof, I play waaay to many video games. And I couldn't be happier! :D
7. I overuse internet emotes on a regular basis. >.>
8. Though I do watch dramas and action movies, cartoons will always have a special place in my heart. Near the inner left ventricle, actually.
10. My first job was at Scully's Packing Sheds on Scotts Valley Rd; my second was at the Lakeport Cinema 5.
11. Though I'm enjoying college right now, I am seriously worried about finding a job once I leave.
12. It makes me sad when people dread the future so much; it tends to create self-fulfilling prophecies.
13. I am an avid writer of haikus, both serious and goofy. For example:
So many buttons
one wrong move, it might explode...
new cellular phone.
14. When it comes to music, I like a wide variety of stuff and tend to go through phases. I grew up with U2, Santana, the Steve Miller Band, and Huey Lewis and the News, rolled on towards Queen, The Who, The Doors, and Cake, dabbled in Metallica, AC/DC and Godsmack, moped my way through Evanescence, My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park, and Coldplay (the older Coldplay stuff, anyway), gnashed through Rage Against the Machine, Rise Against, Nirvana, and System of a Down, and am now at a kind of musical crossroads. I still listen to everything above and love it all. I don't care much for rap or hip hop, and dislike country for the most part.
Above all, few musicians have had a greater impact in my life than Raffi. ("Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring--Bananaphone!" God, I loved that song as a kid!)
15. I am a natural expert at the sidewalk dance. You know, where people coming from 2+ directions both try to go left, then right, then left again, then just push past each other mumbling, "M'sorry."
16. I am a serious skeptic and somewhat cynical. I have a lot of trouble believing in anything and only recently have I convinced myself to give everyone the benefit of the doubt instead of thinking they did whatever on purpose.
17. I worry a lot about how I look, but refuse to spend the money on quality clothes.
18. I took an economics class last year, and was amazed at how much I learned and how much I enjoyed it.
19. Though I am a pacifist, I enjoy some over-the-top violent movies as long as they are ridiculous: i.e. Evil Dead = excellent, Saw I-XXV = pointless, uninteresting torture.
20. I am so, so very tired of endless political bickering, and few things make as angry or as frustrated as dogmatism. I'm not just talking about politics here either; this applies to religion (or lack thereof), racial beliefs, economics, social issues, and all kinds of other stuff. Morals and beliefs are good things, but close-mindedness is the bane of humanity. I'm not kidding here. If anything is going to destroy us, it will be caused by people who aren't willing to listen.
21. I often, without warning, provocation, or warrent, erupt in self-righteous rants about all kinds of moral issues. (See #20.)
22. If you say something serious to me and I smile, it is never, ever because I am laughing at you; I am inadvertently imagining myself in that situation and empathizing with you over it. I can't help myself.
23. I am a sucker for romances and romantic tragedies. As goofy as some of the plots were, I can't bloody think about the endings to some movies and books without getting all teary-eyed.
24. If there was a degree and a job in dabbling in everything, I would take it. I like a lot of different subjects, but tend to get bored quickly with a lot of the things I take up. It doesn't help that I'm also fairly lazy when it comes to both studying and in regards to the stuff that will almost certainly come back to haunt me.
25. I am rapidly running out of things to write about myself--oh good! #25! Let's see, some kind of great thing to end with....
How about a riddle?!
If you have it, you want to share it;
if you share it, you haven't got it.
What is it?
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Talk to you all later!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Mild Insomnia...
...is not always a bad thing! I'm happy about what's to come, both class wise and life wise, and having trouble sleeping tonight because of it. Might as well do something worthwhile!
So! First impressions on classes this semester:
Spanish sounds like it's going to be intense, but ok. I know enough from before to get by at the start, and the homework thus far has been weighty, but useful. It's mostly just exercises and things, but later we have to do what is called a 'composition' which will just be a short paper on some topic the Professor assigns. The professor herself is kind of funny. Her name is Wha Sook Kim (pronounced 'Fasook Kim' with a light f) and she looks distinctly oriental, yet has a very thick Spanish accent. She's pretty intense, but more than willing to repeat herself or rephrase a question for us if we don't understand her. The class was supposed to have like 18 students, but about 4 didn't show and 5 hadn't actually met the requirements for it (which the professor says hasn't happened before), so we're a class of under ten.
Environmental Ethics looks like it's going to be awesome. I know the professor from last year and I like him a lot, and the homework is the same as well: keep up with the weekly reading and write some questions on it when it's your group's turn. The reading topics are exactly what I was hoping for: historical roots of our current crisis, ideals of 'human excellence' and what this should mean, the rights of non-humans including animals and, in some cases, plants, and just general philosophical questions about Environmentalism as a whole. And that's just the first half of the year; after that, he's letting us look through the second section of the textbook and deciding which areas look most interesting to us. Part of it will include how these discussions and problems can be to influence policy-making too, which is exciting for me. I'd like to be able to focus all of this philosophical mumbo-jumbo into real, useful situations.
History of Ethics looks good too, mostly just because I don't know a whole lot about how ethics and what is considered morally acceptable or not has changed since ancient Greece. I was disappointed to hear that it will be strictly Western, but I think the workload would be enormous otherwise, so no biggie. The focus is going to be on ancient Greece, modernism, and a little bit of 'post-modernism' (only in quotes because of how it appeared in the syllabus) including a good body of work by an influential philosopher in this past century named Bernard Williams, whom the professor has a lot of respect for. The class is pretty big, about 25 students, and there seems to be a lot more Freshmen than in the others. I'm hoping I'll have a bit of an edge with my experience last semester, but who knows.
Sociology looks fascinating. After the Professor (who is a visiting graduate student from UCLA) starting talking about the focus of the class, I realized how closely it will tie in to what I've already taken. All last semester I heard about how effective economical policy is greatly affected by public opinion and the current state of the populace, and about how the ancestors of mankind banded together and developed from tiny groups to our modern cities based only on their own group dynamics. This class will go a long ways in helping me understand the motives behind past decisions, and will hopefully give me a much better perspective into what motivates groups and individuals in the choices they make. The class has a ton of reading assignments, but these look interesting too. The books tend to focus on different aspects of society, including the need for security with fear (among other things) as a motivator, the same issues trough the perspectives of many people of different races and backgrounds, and, interestingly, the experience of college life and its effects on students. I kind of wish I had taken this course before holding any leadership role in scouts; it sounds like it would have been useful.
Alright, I think I'm tired enough to sleep now. Time to hit the hay. I leave you with a haiku I scribbled while waiting for Sociology to start:
No moss, rolling stone;
too busy for life to grow,
it misses the point.
Good morning, and have a pleasant today!
So! First impressions on classes this semester:
Spanish sounds like it's going to be intense, but ok. I know enough from before to get by at the start, and the homework thus far has been weighty, but useful. It's mostly just exercises and things, but later we have to do what is called a 'composition' which will just be a short paper on some topic the Professor assigns. The professor herself is kind of funny. Her name is Wha Sook Kim (pronounced 'Fasook Kim' with a light f) and she looks distinctly oriental, yet has a very thick Spanish accent. She's pretty intense, but more than willing to repeat herself or rephrase a question for us if we don't understand her. The class was supposed to have like 18 students, but about 4 didn't show and 5 hadn't actually met the requirements for it (which the professor says hasn't happened before), so we're a class of under ten.
Environmental Ethics looks like it's going to be awesome. I know the professor from last year and I like him a lot, and the homework is the same as well: keep up with the weekly reading and write some questions on it when it's your group's turn. The reading topics are exactly what I was hoping for: historical roots of our current crisis, ideals of 'human excellence' and what this should mean, the rights of non-humans including animals and, in some cases, plants, and just general philosophical questions about Environmentalism as a whole. And that's just the first half of the year; after that, he's letting us look through the second section of the textbook and deciding which areas look most interesting to us. Part of it will include how these discussions and problems can be to influence policy-making too, which is exciting for me. I'd like to be able to focus all of this philosophical mumbo-jumbo into real, useful situations.
History of Ethics looks good too, mostly just because I don't know a whole lot about how ethics and what is considered morally acceptable or not has changed since ancient Greece. I was disappointed to hear that it will be strictly Western, but I think the workload would be enormous otherwise, so no biggie. The focus is going to be on ancient Greece, modernism, and a little bit of 'post-modernism' (only in quotes because of how it appeared in the syllabus) including a good body of work by an influential philosopher in this past century named Bernard Williams, whom the professor has a lot of respect for. The class is pretty big, about 25 students, and there seems to be a lot more Freshmen than in the others. I'm hoping I'll have a bit of an edge with my experience last semester, but who knows.
Sociology looks fascinating. After the Professor (who is a visiting graduate student from UCLA) starting talking about the focus of the class, I realized how closely it will tie in to what I've already taken. All last semester I heard about how effective economical policy is greatly affected by public opinion and the current state of the populace, and about how the ancestors of mankind banded together and developed from tiny groups to our modern cities based only on their own group dynamics. This class will go a long ways in helping me understand the motives behind past decisions, and will hopefully give me a much better perspective into what motivates groups and individuals in the choices they make. The class has a ton of reading assignments, but these look interesting too. The books tend to focus on different aspects of society, including the need for security with fear (among other things) as a motivator, the same issues trough the perspectives of many people of different races and backgrounds, and, interestingly, the experience of college life and its effects on students. I kind of wish I had taken this course before holding any leadership role in scouts; it sounds like it would have been useful.
Alright, I think I'm tired enough to sleep now. Time to hit the hay. I leave you with a haiku I scribbled while waiting for Sociology to start:
No moss, rolling stone;
too busy for life to grow,
it misses the point.
Good morning, and have a pleasant today!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Post-Christmas doldrums...
I'm not sad or anything, but after all of the hustle-n'-bustle of the Holiday Season, sitting at home for hours watching TV and hanging out with my cat just doesn't seem to fill in the hours like it did before. It makes me appreciate being busy with school work.
Hah! It reminds of a character I like in Catch 22. In an effort to make his life last as long as possible, the character Dunbar actively seeks out jobs and pastimes that he hates or finds boring. He reasons that, since time flies while you're having fun, time slows to an absolute crawl when you're not. When asked why he would want a life full of things he hates, he says, "Well, it's all we've got."
It doesn't help that I'm waiting for packages to arrive. I've counted the days since buying stuff on Ebay, and I swear it's been at least a week and a half since last Friday. I just gotta keep reminding myself to stop and smell the roses, and not get caught up to much in the future when there's so many great things going on around me. Think I'll go for a walk...
Happy New Year everyone! =D
Hah! It reminds of a character I like in Catch 22. In an effort to make his life last as long as possible, the character Dunbar actively seeks out jobs and pastimes that he hates or finds boring. He reasons that, since time flies while you're having fun, time slows to an absolute crawl when you're not. When asked why he would want a life full of things he hates, he says, "Well, it's all we've got."
It doesn't help that I'm waiting for packages to arrive. I've counted the days since buying stuff on Ebay, and I swear it's been at least a week and a half since last Friday. I just gotta keep reminding myself to stop and smell the roses, and not get caught up to much in the future when there's so many great things going on around me. Think I'll go for a walk...
Happy New Year everyone! =D
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