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[Jun. 4th, 2008|11:17 pm] |
I started my new classes on Monday. Psych is going really well, but is just . . . well, it's Psychology, and I've taken this class before (if you transfer it, Brockport will only count it as a social science, but I need it to count as a natural science -- ugh!!), so it's kind of boring. The professor is really nice, though, and it could definitely be a lot worse, so we'll see how it goes. Right now a lot of it is review for me -- yesterday we talked about research methodology and doing experiments and between Research Methods and American Public Opinion, a lot of it was stuff I know really well; today we talked about Neuroscience and while it was still review from what I learned the first time I took the course, it's been four years, so it was a little more interesting -- even though I despise science.
Sex and Culture, however, is FABULOUS. I'm actually much more excited for this class than I thought I was going to be -- I actually didn't even mind having to define patriarchy for the 5859595905th time in three years, which is kind of the running joke among Women's Studies majors and minors. Non-majors and minors never know what it means, so we always spend the first few weeks of class reviewing terms like patriarchy, mysogyny, etc., that we all learned in Intro, which most of the other students never took. But luckily my class isn't totally clueless, so we actually moved past a lot of the review stuff during the first class and moved on to the meat of it all and I didn't even mind sitting there for four hours straight. I actually really wish that this was the every day class this session instead of the twice a week class, because I'd much rather go to it than Psych. But, I'll live. And, like I said, Psych could be much worse.
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As for the election, which I'm sure a lot of you know I have strong opinions about . . .
Yes, I'm totally devastated that Hillary Clinton lost. I won't lie about that, since it's absolutely obvious that I am. However, despite the fact that my first choice candidate is out of the race and I've never been a huge supporter of Barack Obama, I am more than willing to drop my grudge and support him, in the interests of NOT having John McCain in the White House, since anything I have against Obama is absolutely nothing compared to the issues I have with McCain. So, I'm dropping it. There are plenty of negative things I could say about Obama (and I'm sure there are just as many negative things that Obama supporters could say against Clinton), but it'd be counter productive to accomplishing the goal of defeating McCain, so I'm not going to. I do, however, wish that everyone else would kind of grow up a little bit and quit being so immature about the whole thing. Hillary lost, yes, and Barack won, okay, but can we please move on? Let's stop with the petty fourth grade bullshit of, "Oh, my candidate lost and I hate yours, so I'm going to vote for McCain!" and "Hahahahahaha, I told you he was going to win! I TOLD YOU!"
Both sides are just really annoying me at this point. Let's move on, and unite as a party, and get this done instead of holding onto grudges. It doesn't matter who you supported yesterday; today you need to support the party, or else we're going to lose. End of story. And this election is way too important to waste such a great opportunity on petty bullshit over which candidate you like more or which candidate is more arrogant and dishonest. Get over it, people: they're politicians, running for President. They're both arrogant and dishonest.
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And with that, I think I'm going to read some more of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and then head to bed. I'm hoping to get back on a relatively normal sleep schedule since waking up at 11am is really throwing everything off, from how tired I am to when I take my medications to normal eating patterns. So. |
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