this is a boring entry. be forewarned. it is about scheduling, and you ought to know how i am about scheduling.

the other day i took a look at my fall schedule and realized i'm not exactly jazzed about it. it is as follows:

sex and power - obviously the highlight.

historical biography - yeah, ok, probably fascinating, but sure to kick my ass as (for you mc'ers) it's a mr. dr. o course.

american constitution - why is our one textbook called constitutional reform and effective government? i want a historical approach. this doesn't sound fun.

physical geology - explains itself.

great books - renaissance drama style. should be fun. i'm holding out judgment.

spanish conversation and composition - i have decided i want language to be an integral part of my life. but i have never enjoyed spanish class.

okay, as it stands, that's six courses, five three hundred-level and one (geology) one hundred-level, adding up to 19 credit hours.

so you know what i'm contemplating? masochist that i am?

replacing geology with zoology - a two hundred-level biology class that claims to cover 95% of the animal kingdom. i would enjoy this course tremendously, but i have a feeling it would take up 50% of my study time, and as mr. dr. o is already going to be taking up 75% of my study time and mrs. dr. o a fair percentage of my free time, this doesn't look like a good equation.

also, asking if i can sit in on intro to linguistics (300-level) once a week, getting the rest of the information from josh, treating it like a normal class and receiving no credit for it.

rock on.

am i up to that? no. have i ever shown myself remotely capable of such an academic commitment? no. will i do it anyway? yes, probably.

this might just be the scheduling high talking, but i do feel like i can do it. i think i've grown enough, i'm mature enough, i can say 'i'd love to take a horton's run and talk about fascinating things until the sun comes up, but unfortunately i have 500 pages to read for the o' man.' i really *want* to do this. it would mean taking almost exclusively courses i'm very interested in or that will be very useful to my future.

i will take a couple days to let the thrill of scheduling revisions die down, to contemplate the thought of, you know, actually doing some work for once. and then, i have four or five professors to email.