Heinrich von Ofterdingen ~Novalis

"Wenn euer Auge fest am Himmel haftet, so werdet ihr nie den Weg zu eurer Heimat verlieren."

If you firmly fix your eyes on the heavens, you will never lose your way home.

Next Semester

After this semester, I am done with my bio major. I still have three german classes to complete that one, though, so I do have some requirements I need to take - however, they are really small and my schedule looks SO empty.
This is what I'm going to do:
1. Directed Study/Undergraduate Research in Biology
2. Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
3. 19th Century German Culture
4. Undergraduate Research in German

# 1 and 4 do not have time slots, since they are based on the idea that I do the work whenever I want, as long as I get it done.
Therefore, my schedule looks like this:
Schedule
(blogger upload photos thing isn't working at the moment)

Anyway, as you can see, that's gives me HUGE chunks of time! I can only take one more class to overload before I have to start paying extra... so... here are the choices:
Abnormal Psych
American Sign Language
Archaelogy
Nothing at all

Those are the ones I'm interested in... or should I just stick with my four classes and awesome schedule?

Idea Catchers

Take a long drive going nowhere.
Dare yourself until you scare yourself.
Make your own face book of self-portraits.
Collect scraps, ephemera, odds and ends to brew a creative stew.
Mind-map a problem or a pipe dream.
Roam outside your range... explore quarks, reincartions, Louis IV, Louise Brown movies, Siberian nomads, Jungian archetypes.
Don't leave home without a blank page.
Turn off streaming video/tune in to stream-of-consciousness.
Make something with your hands to give your left brain a rest.
Go shopping when you're stuck.
Be a list maker... of memorable meals, what you've lost, all things blue, the best days of your life.
Ignore nay-sayers and they-sayers.
Free associate.
Hang out with outsiders.
Hit mute more often.
Be open to Enlightenment in the driveway, Astonishment at your desk, Inspiration at the supermarket.
Work til it hurts.

Personality

This, obviously, was started off by Meena's last post. I got interested!

Your type is ISTJ

Strenth of the preferences:
Introverted 33%
Sensing 12%
Thinking 50%
Judging 33%

You are:

• moderately expressed introvert
  
• slightly expressed sensing personality
  
• moderately expressed thinking personality
  
• moderately expressed judging personality

From here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

*Shakes head smiling*

It really is strange how you just canNOT predict pretty much anything. In terms of me being apprehensive about pulling strangers into the apartment, the one I did is turning out to be a really great friend. Yay! Strangely enough, the one I knew when I was pulling them in almost never talks to me... oh well. Everyone is really busy with work so no problems.
Apparently whenever I do an imitation of someone, I hold my upper arms against my body and flail my forearms about, making me (and the person I'm imitating) look like a T Rex.
That is all.

Sargent Center

Sargent Center Field Trip Photos

So much fun... check it out.

Lol.

And of course, everything is resolved rather quickly. Dah!

What the crap

New laptop!!

So, Vista is... well... really, really, really pretty. I had to fix a few things and it took me a while to figure out how to move files so it wasn't a ludicrously complicated action, but I overshot the "Vista learning curve," I think. Totally worth it. Wonderous interface. Just make sure you disable the "User Account Control" so it doesn't beep at you and make you "allow" control panel to open. Tarded, I know.
The hardware itself is damn cool, too. The keyboard is insanely quiet, mouse responsive, image quality amazing. Right-clicking is somewhat of a challenge... it thinks that I'm regular clicking still sometimes, I'm sure I just have to get used to it.
I <3 Google Gadgets.
Installing Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 by virtually mounting the drive and messing around with different serial numbers proved a quick, but intense, battle. I triumphed in the end (of course).
Outlook presented me with a problem. How do I move the emails in my old Outlook to my new Outlook? I Googled away and poked through the settings and Help Desk... until I tried to take advantage of Window's relatively simple, user-friendly style (in relation to Mac OS X, e.g.) and just dragged them from my Inbox pane into a flash drive folder. Ou la! All the info transferred with it, so the times and attachments were all still there.
Number One Victory of the Day: VPN client works. I get wireless!!

Essentially, really glad I did this... now I can bring my laptop without breaking my spine, in addition to all the little pros that I've mentioned above and more.
Still keeping my old one around, though, at least until I install the drivers for the television tuner. Monday Night Football, here I come!

Classes

It's been about a week. The first night I had homework I was up til 2am. Not a good sign. Since on Tuesdays and Thursdays I only have two classes but they are both taught by the same professor, it is extremely confusing as to which handouts go where (something I have to be VERY careful about to not lose/misplace any). Do I rrrrrrrreallly have to buy the 3rd edition when I already have the 2nd??
Mammalian Ecology - graduate level, challenging, fun, good professor, field trip to new hampshire!!
German Cinema - friends with professor, get to watch movies, in english
Romanticism - friends with professor, semi-interesting material so far... (jedoch, auf deutsch)
German Civilization and Culture - totally insane professor (still cool), interesting material, got to listen to 25 minutes of bach last time (auf deutsch, wieder)
Directed Study - labbies as crazy as usual!! all my free time gone :(... publish articles?? :D