Cheez-It Love

First week back at R-side was a-okay. I'm loving all of my professors, especially Goldberry Long and Reza Aslan. I have them back to back on Tuesday and Thursday and it is absolutely phenomenal. Creative Writing with Goldberry is definitely going to be a demanding class, but I am looking forward to it 100%. They are both such brilliant speakers. Professor Aslan can lecture for an entire hour and a half, and he's just so passionate and knowledgeable about everything that he says that it never gets boring. I love both of those classes so so much.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are Physics and Psychology (along with Islam discussions, which I always look forward to), and they are a lot less fun than expected. Psych 1 is actually pretty boring so far. I'm in a lecture hall with about 600 other students, and so far the professor is just really good at reading her powerpoint slides. She's a neuropsychologist or something... something to do with biology and the brain. It's Psych 1, which is physical psychology, I'm pretty sure... Psych 2 deals with the emotional factors. I'm thinking about working for a psych minor along with a Creative Writing major, so Psych 1 is one of my prerequisites. I hope it gets more interesting though. So far it's just history and that's not that exciting at all. Professor Yarmoff, my Physics professor, gives fun examples in class. We're talking about waves right now, which is pretty boring, but it's important because it is what the entire class is about... light waves and sound waves (Physics of Color and Sound). The classroom is pretty cool, though. From the outside, Physics 2000 looks like this tiny square little building that may hold 50 people tops, but when you enter, the room goes down down down under ground. There's a large staircase and rows and rows of built in tables and chairs. The professor lectures from the ground floor, where he keeps all of his equipment. And, get this: the desks are on a rotating platform. When the previous professor leaves, he leaves a mess. All professor Yarmoff has to do is push a button, and the floor begins to rotate, and HIS desk comes to the front of the room; clean white boards, wave equipment, everything. Behind the wall is an office, I'm pretty sure, and some electronic equipment. It's pretty awesome to see it happen.

Besides that, I've been going to a lot of parties and barbecues and stuff this week. Tuesday, I went to a party with my hall. Wednesday, I went to a barbecue at the AEPi house with Chanel and Danny and Ben (and Kat and Hali) and just hung out outside for a bonfire and kosher hotdogs. A helicopter flew over the house for, like, ten minutes, which is suuuper duper annoying, but then it went away. The AEPi brothers all seem really nice and I'm slowly starting to meet all of them and remember their faces and names around campus. Thursday, almost my entire hall decided to go to a Lambda party, but it was so packed that, after about five minutes of being inside, Chanel and I decided to walk over to the AEPi house for their kickback. I met even more brothers, and sort of just chilled for awhile. I swear, there are, like, six guys named Josh in the frat or rushing for the frat. It's insane, but I guess they are Jewish, so it's to be expected.

Friday afternoon, Jessica and Zach came down to hang out. We went to dinner (cheap pizza by the slice down the road) and went to see Daybreakers right afterward. Daybreakers had a good concept, but the movie was not good at all. The only thing that made it good at all was Willem Dafoe. He was hilarious in the movie. MOM: I would suggest NOT seeing it in theaters, but definitely see it when it comes out on DVD. We went back to the dorms around 9:30 and played catchphrase until about 2 a.m. with my friends/hallmates. Then we all set up camp on the floor in my room and went to sleeeep. Jackie is gone for the weekend, so we had the room all to ourselves. It was pretty awesome. We got up and went to breakfast at Denny's, and then they had to take off. I've just been doing a whole lot of nothing for the past hour, but it's almost time to turn in my Creative Writing homework and maybe head over to my friend Matthew's house for some ripe oranges and Korean pears. Gotta go running tonight, and do my Islam and Physics reading.

I got Yesterday another kind of medicine. Took him to the pet store and their fish lady couldn't tell me anything. He just had some crazy swimming fit, but he still floats on his side at the top of the water. I've got to change his water again today and put a new dose of this medicine in. It's supposed to work after three doses/ three days, and today is the third dose day, so we'll see how he's doing today. It says I can go up to seven treatments, and I really hope he lives that long and gets better. He hasn't eaten in over a week. I hope this changes. I'm pretty sure he's gone blind in one eye, because one of his eyes is always milky and filmy. I thought it was part of the sick, maybe some white fungus growing over his eye, but I'm pretty sure that he is blind in that eye. Anyway, we'll see what happens.

Time to finish my homework and productivity for the rest of the day. I've been wasting too much time on facebook for the past half hour. Time to get to work.