Classes fer next semester

Hey everybody!

I got registered for classes yesterday, and I'm pretty pumped about my schedule. I've got Introductory Psychology, which should be interesting, and I think a few psych classes will be good for philosophizing about people's minds. Then I'm taking Basic Latin Grammar, because tons of important philosophical/theological texts were written in Latin right up until a few hundred years ago, and it'll elucidate lots of things in Spanish and English I'm sure. Also most graduate programs in Philosophy require reading proficiency in the language of your concentration, generally Latin, Greek, French or German. I'm gonna try to concentrate on Latin American philosophy, and I can already read in Spanish, but Latin will be cool and useful. Then I've got Intro to Spanish culture, with Profesora Kennedy, who I had for Spanish 102. She's awesome, and this will be the first class I'll take entirely in Spanish. Should be sweet. Then I have Philosophy of Religion, with Ronna Burger, the head of the Philosophy department here, so I'm excited about that. Finally I have Diversity of Life, which is an Evolutionary Biology class and the attached Lab. It'll fulfill my lab science requirement and I think it'll be cool. It's basically a class about cool plants and animals, I think/hope. I also want to pick up a Catholicism class, but for some reason regular college students like myself can't register for it until August. If it's still open in August I'll take that.

Just a week left classes now, then Easter, then finals. Hard to believe I'm almost halfway done with college. Pretty scary stuff.

Edit: I just registered for Readings in Spanish and Latin American Lit, too. Another class all in Spanish! I'm number four on the waitlist, but I figure if I just go to class anyway and assiduously endeavor to get in, I will. Everyone ahead of me on the list is probably a licentious libertine or a heretical innovator, probably with a vein of ignorance throbbing in their breast. (I've acquired some sweet new insults from my Islamic philosophy readings.) In that case I'll probably drop Psych and not try to take Catholicism.

Spring

Hey all,

Unlike Colorado, with all its snow and craziness on Saturday (in Denver at least, from what I heard), New Orleans is balmy and sticky and sweaty. A couple of weeks ago bushes all over uptown were covered, and by covered I mean that the leaves were barely visible, in gorgeous pink and white flowers. It stayed that way for about two weeks, and then last week's rainstorms knocked all the flowers down. It was like the ground was littered with tiny little pink and white dresses, all soaked and forlorn looking. It was pretty wild. But yeah, flowers are blooming all over the city, and it smells awesome all over.

School is getting insane, as is usual at the end of the semester. I'm preparing to write my final three papers of the year, and studying for exams. Classes end on Wednesday the 20th, which is suuuper early, so everybody is kind of freaking out. I'm not too freaked out. The cool thing about Philosophy and Spanish is that I haven't really had any super hard classes yet. All my homies in the sciences are drowning in despair over things like organic chemistry. I won't have to deal with much despair until later when I'm doing 600 level seminars on existentialism and 19th century Argentinian literature, or whatever.

I'm getting pumped up for Jazzfest, I think I'm gonna go the first day, April 29th. Robert Plant, Jeff Beck, Mumford & Sons, and JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE (OMG OMG OMG!!!!!11@31231) are gonna be there, among tons of other great bands. Oh yeah, and if you don't know who JTE is you need to go watch this video right now. Great picker, fabulous songwriter, awesome singer, and he's only a couple years older than me. I'm super stoked for his show.

Anyway, hasta luego!

P.S. I had a pretty bad sinus infection last week. The doctor said I probably had strep too, but didn't feel the need to do the whole poke my throat with a huge q-tip till I gagged thing, because the meds he prescribed me for the sinus infection would knock out strep, too. By the 3rd day of antibiotics I felt much better, and now I'm back to 100%.