The past couple days I've been watching Carl Sagan's series Cosmos on DVD. I love it. I'm trying to work my way up to reading Stephen Hawking. But I've got more to learn before I'm ready for that.
I want to learn everything.
Everything.
It's so frustrating that there's so much knowledge out there, and even if I spend the rest of my life dedicated to learning it all, I never will. And it's also frustrating that even if I do learn lots of things, I will also forget lots of things in time.
I want to know everything there is to be known about biology, the universe, music, art, poetry, civilization, everything.
Well, maybe not math. I'm not so good at math. But everything else. Well, in order to learn more about physics and stuff and the universe and relativity and time I'll have to learn more math. Shit. Alright count math in too. (heh, no pun intended)
I've also been listening to this book on tape series from The Teahing Company called "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music" taught by professor Robert Greenberg, and it is awesome. I grew up playing classical violin and had 5 years of classical voice training, and with a brother who played classical cello and piano and two classical music loving parents. So great music has always been a part of my life. I've heard a lot of it. Hell, I've played and sung a lot of it too. But learning about it in depth is so cool.
The irony of all this is that I am not pursuing a scholarly career. I'm pursuing acting, in the artsy-fartsy sense of the grand tradition of the Theatre. This, my friends, means that the world of acedemia is destined to be my hobby. As in, in my spare time I will be reading lots and lots of non fiction by choice. Wow. How nerdy is that.
But I love it!!!
p.s. you know what's so cool? My parents used to read to me Every Night before I went to sleep. Every night. They rule. I must go thank them for that.
I want to learn everything.
Everything.
It's so frustrating that there's so much knowledge out there, and even if I spend the rest of my life dedicated to learning it all, I never will. And it's also frustrating that even if I do learn lots of things, I will also forget lots of things in time.
I want to know everything there is to be known about biology, the universe, music, art, poetry, civilization, everything.
Well, maybe not math. I'm not so good at math. But everything else. Well, in order to learn more about physics and stuff and the universe and relativity and time I'll have to learn more math. Shit. Alright count math in too. (heh, no pun intended)
I've also been listening to this book on tape series from The Teahing Company called "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music" taught by professor Robert Greenberg, and it is awesome. I grew up playing classical violin and had 5 years of classical voice training, and with a brother who played classical cello and piano and two classical music loving parents. So great music has always been a part of my life. I've heard a lot of it. Hell, I've played and sung a lot of it too. But learning about it in depth is so cool.
The irony of all this is that I am not pursuing a scholarly career. I'm pursuing acting, in the artsy-fartsy sense of the grand tradition of the Theatre. This, my friends, means that the world of acedemia is destined to be my hobby. As in, in my spare time I will be reading lots and lots of non fiction by choice. Wow. How nerdy is that.
But I love it!!!
p.s. you know what's so cool? My parents used to read to me Every Night before I went to sleep. Every night. They rule. I must go thank them for that.
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