So much to do, so much to think about. I am feeling somewhat better, although it's kind of back and forth right now. I just finished writing an article for my department's newsletter on the Taoism class i organized last quarter and again this quarter. This will be the first thing i have written that is "published", in quotes because it's a department thing so it's not like a lot of people are going to read it, but some, and the graduate student soliciting the articles said that sometimes permanent classes are made out of the focus groups, so who knows, maybe i will accidently leave a mark on the university when i leave.
I changed the topic of my thesis, the one i had was too boring. Now i am doing something on education and the ideal of the Renaissance man and the way i approached college by taking classes in every department instead of just one or two. Now i'm looking at a stack of books with everything from ancient chinese philosophy to quantum physics. Lots of reading.
I got approved for an apartment i was looking at. It's expensive, about $720 a month. I have to sell my car to afford it. Which isn't exactly a bad thing. The car costs me around $3000 a year, and i think i can get my boss to pay for my bus pass, so i'm saving all that money, plus the apartment is in Seattle, only four blocks from the university (ironic, huh? i get a place near the school after i graduate), and about six blocks from where my bus picks up and drops off. Plus the building has no parking anyway. It's small, but very quaint, the kind of place you like to come home to, and it has two huge windows (no balcony though) so lots of natural light which is a must for me (see last entry). I don't move in until July, but that gives me time to get some money together.
After the quarter is over i think i will do my Peace Corp application. I'm a little torn though. I really want to go to the South Pacific, but if i went to Costa Rica i could learn Spanish fluently and that would have a lot of advantages for when i get back. Just as long as it's not the Middle East; i like the desert but i don't think i want to live there for two years.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-Ellen Parr
I changed the topic of my thesis, the one i had was too boring. Now i am doing something on education and the ideal of the Renaissance man and the way i approached college by taking classes in every department instead of just one or two. Now i'm looking at a stack of books with everything from ancient chinese philosophy to quantum physics. Lots of reading.
I got approved for an apartment i was looking at. It's expensive, about $720 a month. I have to sell my car to afford it. Which isn't exactly a bad thing. The car costs me around $3000 a year, and i think i can get my boss to pay for my bus pass, so i'm saving all that money, plus the apartment is in Seattle, only four blocks from the university (ironic, huh? i get a place near the school after i graduate), and about six blocks from where my bus picks up and drops off. Plus the building has no parking anyway. It's small, but very quaint, the kind of place you like to come home to, and it has two huge windows (no balcony though) so lots of natural light which is a must for me (see last entry). I don't move in until July, but that gives me time to get some money together.
After the quarter is over i think i will do my Peace Corp application. I'm a little torn though. I really want to go to the South Pacific, but if i went to Costa Rica i could learn Spanish fluently and that would have a lot of advantages for when i get back. Just as long as it's not the Middle East; i like the desert but i don't think i want to live there for two years.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-Ellen Parr
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respiratory care.