tabular_rasa | Heaven, Music, and Scheduling

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Yea, I'm cool! Lol . . .

Apparently some of the orchestra and the school choir are performing Faure's Requiem tomorrow night-- too bad I have to miss it because of the Improv show and the various accompanying previous activities. Eh, well, it will probably be worth it :-P

Still, ahh, memories . . . I am now listening to it, of course, lol . . .

I wish we were playing that, instead of that random Mozart mass I've never heard of. You know, I think Mozart might have actually pissed me off as a person. He was kind of a jerk, and I bet he had a big head about his musical talents. That would have pissed me off, lol . . .

. . . and then there was Beethoven, the Emo Kid, lol . . . :-P

Anyway-- as I said, artists are all screwed up, but that's what makes them artists.

None of my friends believe I actually have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. It's kind of funny-- just because I actually act like the rest of the OCD crowd with most of my compulsions, keeping them secret-- or even being unaware of them myself. I mean, if I let them all out, into the know, all people do is mess with them, and I can only take so much of that. Sure, it is flattering to get the attention, I guess, but, well, when it's all said and done, I'd like for everything to just be perfect and wonderful and exactly according to my rigid specifications.

. . . I have been known to fix things after people leave . . .

In other news, I have found a way of cheating the cluster system, by taking Cognitive Psychology and Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology as my only two Natural Sciences (NS) courses, rather than having to take three, as I would have originally had to-- because Problems in Philosophy clusters with Cognitive Psychology, so it counts as an NS, in an inadvertant way, even though it is really an SS, or something like that. Patricia doesn't recommend I take the Cognitive Psychology, and, well, I'm a little skeptical, too, considering my utter hatred of the idea that all we are are all free-will-lacking, shapable neurons, but, well, if I go into it knowing what to expect, and take with with a grain of salt, I should be fine (and, I mean, well, I made it through Problems in Philosophy, too, didn't I?). Besides, by learning more about it, I might actually be able to reconcile my beliefs in the best possible way-- and, even if I don't, I can find out their arguments and mock them pitilessly like I do the articles of the Elkhart Truth! MWAHAHA!!! Lol . . . *cough* . . .

That is, unless, of course, Patricia is really just not recommending it because it's hard as shit, or something, lol-- but, then, I suppose, I can always take it Pass/Fail (I think . . . ? Lol . . . ). At any rate, it has to be better than three Physics courses, even Physics courses for nonscience majors. Now, Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology will contain math, in the form of Physics, but that is conceptual, and it is only one class, as opposed to three, and it fulfills QA, so it is worth it, too, and, after that, I am good and done in the sucky department! Woot for cheating the system! Lol . . .

(That didn't make no sense to none of y'all non-WashU people, did it? Lol . . . )

Basically, all that meant was:

THEY CAN'T MAKE ME DO MATH!!!

Then, to fulfill my Social Sciences cluster, I have two of my required-for-the-Education Major courses to be clustered with Psychology of Adolescence.

Textual Histories and Language Arts are both fulfilled (and clustered) by various requirements for the Japanese Major. My Social Differentiation and Cultural Differentiation are also satisfied by these, in there-- in fact, I have them done and overwith, now, with Japanese Civilization and Introduction to East Asian Religions ^_^

Writing I is nearly out of the way.

All I need now is to schedule/fit my Writing Intensive course in junior year.

Actually, as it now stands, I can fit in a Psychology Minor, as well, along with my Japanese Major and Education (Double-Parallel) Major (well, hey, not all of us can be Mr. Triple-Major-with-a-Minor-and-not-taking-more-than-15-credits-a-semester-Keith :-P but we can come close!-- you should have tried gambling in Vegas, Keith; you probably would have won something!). As I am already taking courses counting for it with my already-taken Psychology 100, Education Major-related Educational Psychology, NS-cluster-fulfilling Cognitive Psychology, and my requirement for the SS cluster of Psychology of Adolescence, all I have to do is take one more Psychology course. I am looking into Abnormal Psychology, but I have to talk to Patricia about it, because it could very well be hard as shit. I am wondering who her teacher is, now, though; for next semester, it is Mr. INFJ Rodebaugh, who I have presently for this third of Psychology 100, so I hope that will be okay, though :-P

( . . . not that INFJs have a secret buddy system, or anything . . . *shifty eyes* . . . *whistles* . . . yeah, carry on, nothing to see, here . . . )

( . . . actually, lol, if anything, we're just hard to read, even to each other, unless you sit and stare at us for long enough and we crack . . . though it's not like we put the shell there, actually; it's not our fault you can't get into our heads . . . that's why I tell everybody everything . . . or at least what I think is everything, which is probably the mistake, because it is actually not everything, and, therefore, they think there is nothing else there to learn . . . and, so, then, nobody really understands :-P . . . maybe eventually one of us will get it, someday . . . anyway . . . lol . . . but I love you all for sticking around, anyway! <3)

The only scheduling conflict I have is inherent in the Education and Japanese Majors, which I must confront them about-- I'm supposed to do nothing but Education my Spring Semester of Senior year, but I still must be taking my final year of Japanese. That doesn't make any sense . . . so I am going to have to be asking them about this . . . hmm . . .

Edit (11:19 pm): Does anyone else ever feel like they understand everything (and, by everything, I mean everything), but they just can't explain it? Does anyone else ever think everything is so infinitely complex that one can never, ever hope to understand anything at all, and yet still feel as if the fundamentals of everything are so overwhelmingly simple it's a wonder we don't get it all?

Hmm, I like the world. I like the universe. I like existing!