Monday Monday
Mar. 27th, 2006 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
korafoxWell, at least I caught an hour in the meditation room today...which is nice, since I was running around like crazy the rest of the day. Sometimes you just need that peaceful little retreat, you know? Especially with how crazy it gets here...I should try to make time to sit in there more often.
Started two new books today...Catch 22, from my stack of books that I should have read in high school but didn't, and Faith and Violence by Thomas Merton. I really do need to finish the former quickly though, as it's due back in two weeks (along with about three other books I've yet to read :x). But I'm finding Faith and Violence very interesting...disregard what you may think of the title; it's really more about a nonviolent approach to bringing a peaceful attitude to the world (and by world, it seems to be heading toward the world of politics/international relations).
I think I have my schedule figured out for next semester:
Painting III,
Manet to Dada (art history elective),
Love and Death in Freud's Vienna, and
Victorian Literature.
Which is reasonably in accordance with what I wanted to do, although I'm slightly ticked off that there's only one course being offered that would count toward my Japanese Studies minor (which I can't take since it'd conflict timewise with my newspaper job).
On a more personal note, I suppose...I'm struggling with a situation with my roommate. Well, the situation is not with her, but she's been having problems in her life...with college, her boyfriend, and such. I wish I could help her sort through all this, but it seems like all I can ever do is listen to her problems. Which I suppose probably is help, but if I know there's something I could say that might help her deal with everything...
Well, and the problem is that saying my advice would probably come off as harsh. And the last thing I want to do is make her feel worse. But it's a toss-up between an immediate shock and what I could see happening along the way if things don't sort out...of course, I don't know that what I'd have to say is for the best. So I'll just keep my mouth shut unless I see that it becomes necessary. Just hopefully I'll be able to tell before something drastic happens, and not after...
Off to finish the art history readings of doom. *flourished bow and exit*
Started two new books today...Catch 22, from my stack of books that I should have read in high school but didn't, and Faith and Violence by Thomas Merton. I really do need to finish the former quickly though, as it's due back in two weeks (along with about three other books I've yet to read :x). But I'm finding Faith and Violence very interesting...disregard what you may think of the title; it's really more about a nonviolent approach to bringing a peaceful attitude to the world (and by world, it seems to be heading toward the world of politics/international relations).
I think I have my schedule figured out for next semester:
Painting III,
Manet to Dada (art history elective),
Love and Death in Freud's Vienna, and
Victorian Literature.
Which is reasonably in accordance with what I wanted to do, although I'm slightly ticked off that there's only one course being offered that would count toward my Japanese Studies minor (which I can't take since it'd conflict timewise with my newspaper job).
On a more personal note, I suppose...I'm struggling with a situation with my roommate. Well, the situation is not with her, but she's been having problems in her life...with college, her boyfriend, and such. I wish I could help her sort through all this, but it seems like all I can ever do is listen to her problems. Which I suppose probably is help, but if I know there's something I could say that might help her deal with everything...
Well, and the problem is that saying my advice would probably come off as harsh. And the last thing I want to do is make her feel worse. But it's a toss-up between an immediate shock and what I could see happening along the way if things don't sort out...of course, I don't know that what I'd have to say is for the best. So I'll just keep my mouth shut unless I see that it becomes necessary. Just hopefully I'll be able to tell before something drastic happens, and not after...
Off to finish the art history readings of doom. *flourished bow and exit*
