Something's Been Bugging Me...

...and of course, being that it is me stating this, it is about women.

For some reason, I seem to go into every semester developing crushes on girls who, at first glance, would be out of my league. Sometimes, or once, that crush is actually returned, but lo and behold I found out that time that the girl was not quite who I thought her to be. So, I thought I would get on here and just write a bit... I don't know why - perhaps it is because I have a little of that "free time" which is always uncommon for me if you know my usual workload.

Anyway, there are two girls who I am currently crushing on. For sake of anonymity, I shall call them x and y, because I am a math major. Let x represent the girl I utterly embarrassed myself in front of, and let y represent a new freshman who lives near me who I have chatted with quite a bit since the school year started. Both x and y are utterly beautiful, that is why I do nothing but shrivel up when I see either one of them with nervousness. I think it's similar to the ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) theory of classical conditioning. My craptastic love life has led me to shrivel up in front of a new pretty face.

Other than that, the semester has gotten off to a slow start. My classes are low in number (14 credits are real, 7 others are honors projects) so I'm not in class as much as I was last year. (THANK GOD!) I have time to do things, like learn piano music.

Fall 2009 Semester

I feel I should jump on here and just write a little bit about what I'm expecting out of my fall semester at the University. Here is my schedule:

EDUC 317L: Designing Curriculum for Low Incidence Disabilities Lab (Fridays, all day)

EDUC 342: Educational Media & Technology (Tues/Thurs 2:30 - 3:45)

EDUC 366: Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities (Mon/Weds 1:00 - 2:15)

EDUC 367: Designing Curriculum for Low Incidence Disabilities (Mon/Weds 3:00 - 4:15)

EDUC 385H: Textbooks, Tradebooks, and the Gifted (Honors)

MATH 222: Calculus III (Mon/Wed/Thurs/Fri 11:00 - 11:50)

MATH 385H: Honors Differential Equations (Thurs, 1:00)

I really do love this schedule because I'm finally rid of those bull general education courses; I can concentrate solely on what I want to concentrate on: mathematics and education. Also, I am really looking forward to the opportunity to dabble in some honors work and hopefully get a third article out. I say third because I am currently working on my second publication with my honors mentor in the education department which should (key word "should") be done within the month. Well, maybe by fall break. Who knows?

Regardless, it is absolutely fantastic to get back in the swing of things again. I really did miss everyone over the summer (a topic about which I will write another entry). The jazz band has been playing since Thursday and, with a couple of new additions, we sound pretty good! Unfortunately, our move-in gig got rained out Saturday morning so we had to move freshmen in.

Finally, I heard a very interesting line from my pastor's homily today that I thought I would share. Think about this line and what it means in the context of a truly Catholic life: "Everyone should be subordinate to everyone."