| | well, thanks to Vishal's incessant pestering, I'm actually going to do a real update!
I know it's been a while *meep* but I think that most of the people who would read this already know what's going on in my life... maybe I'll turn this into a mass e-mail!!!! lol I guess we'll see
I guess I'll start off with things that happened today because I feel like today was the busiest day ever.
I started off the day with philosophy (aka the 9 AM class from hell) and even though I hadn't really gotten any sleep at all I managed to stay awake through it and on top of that I actually paid attention for most of the class instead of zoning out. At the end of class we got our first quiz back and while it wasn't the best grade, it definitely wasn't the worst and I'm happy with it for now.
After philosophy, I had my sexual oppression course. Even though the name seems a bit odd it's probably my favorite class right now. My teacher is this very liberal elderly woman who seriously like fascinates me. On top of that, the subjects that we discuss in class are amazing. We started off the first week by discussing politics in general and my professor actually pointed out many things about our country that I was dissatisfied with - and even though I've always known that I don't truly like our government, I finally had a way of talking about what I dislike and why I dislike it... I guess it just felt refreshing to be politically informed and aware for once (maybe I should just start reading the newspaper?? lol, prob wouldn't be able to follow through with that no matter how hard I tried to). After the intro to the class, my teacher immediately jumped into why men are sexually oppressed by our society - I think she wanted to make us feel a little bit bad for men before she completely started to rip on them for sexually oppressing women and making us hate them. Now that we're done with the sexual oppression of men, she's moved on to the heterosexual nature of our country (and of Europe in general) and how, societally, it affects people who arer LGBT. On top of all that nifty stuff I get to read books that have fun names such as: Sex, Power and Pleasure; Sex Work; and Sexual Crises.
So then after Sexual Oppression I went back to my dorm and picked up my negatives and also picked up Jake and we went to the dark room because we had to print stuff for our photo class critique today. That was really relaxing because nobody was really in the dark room and it was just nice to be developing. I think it was really good actually for me to have had that time today because my teacher and her teaching techniques and capabilities are really frustrating me and actually just kind of pissing me off and making me wish I had tried to get out of intro to photo but having good dark room time today helped me remember why I like photography so much.
Then we went to lunch with Anna and Liz before returning to the dark room to finish our printing and go to class at 2. Class was horrible. For the three hour lab that we're supposed to spend our time developing our teacher talked for 2 1/2 hours and then made us stay and develop a print in the last 30 minutes instead of letting us leave so we could go shoot or do some other useful thing instead of printing some random useless print that was just stupid. I guess the one good thing that happened during class was that we got our 'pop quizzes' back and I got a + on it because I happen to know what a grey card is...
After that I went to my room and printed the slides for art history before heading off to that class. I really genuinely like that class because it's forcing me to focus on architecture instead of just pushing it aside in my mind as something inconsequential and unimportant in the grand scheme of art history. That class was okay I guess because we're discussing Art Nouveau architects and I actually like their work a lot! (today we talked about Gaudi and a bunch of other architects I had never heard of before and next class we're going to talk all about Frank Lloyd Wright *woot woot*). And then at the end of that class I got another test back (my first test from that class actually) and I was really really excited because I got ann 88% on it! I don't think I would be so excited about that other than the fact that the day before we took the test I was like flipping out over it because I had this major fear that I would like fail or something... I guess I just need to have a little more faith in my knowledge about art history?
So then after that I came back to my room and I talked to my Grandma Jean for 14 minutes on the phone because I was calling her to wish her a belated happy birthday... unfortunately I have to admit that I never thought I would be able to talk to my grandma on the phone that long. Sometimes it really shocks me how I don't know my grandparents well at all.
Okay... so besides classes and stuff I actually have been having a ton of fun *surprise surprise... fun at college? lol* In fact, I've been having soooo much fun that I haven't really been sleeping much at all and am really feeling the side effects a lot. It's weird because I feel like everything that happens to me is either really really good or really really horrible. It's like my life is really super contrasty right now and I don't have any middle greys. I think if I start sleeping then I might start getting my middle greys back... did that make any sense? K... cool...
Oh and friends are fun (as always) I guess I could go into detail about stuff that's been going on but mainly I guess that I could just mention that I've pretty much been hanging out with at least one person 24/7. It seems like this is actually one of the first times in a long time that I've been alone (which isn't necessarily a good or bad thing, bc it's kind of odd to not have anyone in the room with me but it's also kind of nice especially because i'm so sleepy I feel like I wouldn't be very good company right now).
Umm okay... I guess that's it
I guess I should go study for my History of Photo test that I have tomorrow and hopefully I'll actually update for real on a more regular basis instead of like just updating when I do something like go to France or take some quizzes (and on a side note, go join OkCupid.com and be my friend - littlebuck789) OkCupid is supposed to be a site where people meet other people and stuff but really it's just fun to take tons of random quizzes and see what results your friends had for those quizzes.
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