My class schedule has been undergoing various permutations. This is a source of much stress. I had a FWD-MN meeting, and that is becoming less fun, because I’m feeling like I don’t fit in there. I’m feeling very out of place. Then again, it’s not often I feel in place, so you’d think I’d be getting used to it. Anyway, schedule.
So, yeah, awhile back, I registered for networks & places (or transportation and land use, hereafter called n&p). It kept me out of Energy & Environmental Policy (eep), but eep had open space and n&p did not. Then I made the highly intellectualized decision to go for eep instead because that would fit more with my sustainability interests, right? Plan A, Step x, activate, go. I was also looking for a couple more units (most bang for my buck, if we ignore the stress and the degredation of my learning experience and gpa), and picked up sustainable development (sd), despite hearing that it sucked from someone who took it last year, because the title of the course is my self-identified interest.
I made an impulsive decision to sit in on the first day of networks & places. This guy has got to be nearly the best lecturer I’ve seen at the humphrey. Also the cutest (though, alas, that doesn’t say much). It doesn’t hurt that I have a massive woody for the subject material. Why the fuck did they schedule n&p and eep at the same goddamn time? Swap eep with international relations or something, they are two highly related topics that should be available together. Must remember to hurt the party responsible.
Anyway, so I signed up for n&p. If I drop self defense (which would mean I wouldn’t have to get up as early as often, or I could go to swim practice instead) that would keep me at the price plateau. That was my plan. Then I realized that simply contemplating this plan was depressing the hell out of me and I loathed the idea of not having enough time to do anything right or have a decent social life. I’ll probably drop sustainable development. Or maybe regional economic development (red), that one has great subject matter, a very likeable instructor, and some very bad teaching technique (sitting in front of the class, and lecturing in an admittedly fairly time structured way with minimal use of visual aids and no small group work). Bad combo that.
So, today I renewed my vow not to overcommit academically. The incredible relief that provided was a little amusing in retrospect. I am not a rational actor of economic theory, I am a human being. Playing Alanis’s “Perfect” with oneself can be rather troublesome.
No matter what, I still have no classes on fridays. 3 day weekends for the rest of the semester, woo!
This opens up many opportunities for travel. And after the tripus interruptus of the holidays, I need much travel.
Austin loungerat stuff seems to have gone nowhere. I suggested it, and took no initiative past that point, go me! Enh, oh well. Better luck next year.
Chicago for the final fantasy music concert (with an orchestra, not a console system, providing the music, for the wiseasses in the crowd) over the weekend of feb 19th. Others who find the idea of such a concert exciting, let me know.
Home the weekend before that to see dad, now that he’s back from Iraq. (He flies in from fort bliss (not hood, don’t know where I got that) tomorrow).
First weekend of spring break out to see uncle dennis, granny, and other KY relations (Dennis will attempt to assemble a larger group for that, wholly unprompted by me).
Second weekend of spring break, out to the bay area for the american planning association’s annual conference. Shmooze with planner types and see what comes of it.
Where else should I go? What else should I plan on?
Take carnival in pittsburgh as a given 😉
Haha, “Perfect” is so creepily tranquil.