Well, I don't really have anything of importance or real interest to say, but since my mom is now faithfully posting, I should at least try and keep up with her.
So, since the new semester at JCCC has started, I could spout on that for a while. Once again I find the most interesting part of the whole experience the simple fact that people are just so darn different from each other. And in my opinion, the people you learn the most about concerning their personalities and intelligence are teachers of any kind. I mean, they're standing there talking to you for a living, you're bound to learn as much about their opinions, beliefs, world views, likes and dislikes, bad habits, annoying jokes, random traits, psychological workings, and pretty much a lot of whatever makes them tick. Even if you have an instructor that somehow manages to say about six sentences for the whole six hour class period (which I have, believe me) that right there says tons about what they think of you, themselves, teaching, their enthusiasm or lack thereof, you get the picture.
So, launching from that, my professors this semester weren't dissapointing as far as interest value goes.
In my Drawing 1 class, the art instructor is surprisingly organized, strict, and exact for an artist, not without the usual sharp and delving eye that is typical of an artist. He is NOT happy when people show up late; when we hear the the bell toll eight, he starts exactly, and anyone who dare come in ten minutes or, gasp! half an hour! later...
In general zoology, I have the most arrogant, condescending, and haughty professor yet. At the beginning of the class, just to prove his point that we, the students, were all so, "close minded about animals, the whole spectrum of animals out there, and most people are so unaware," that he had us write down on a notecard two animals as different from each other as we could think of. He then wrote down on the white board eight different phyla and had us say what the animals were that we had written. Before we started he said, "This will just show the limitations of the view on animals. Ninety percent of the animals you name will be in phylum chordata." And of course, most of what we said was. You know, birds, snakes, whales, fish, random desert creatures, what have you. Somehow, I thought ahead and wrote down a hydra as one of mine, which is in phylum cnidaria, but that's besides the point. I mean, he actually had us do that so he could smugly belittle us to make himself feel smart.
Anyways.
In Interactive Media Assets, I have one of the nicest ones yet. She is so sweet to everyone, and comepletely relaxed and layed back about everything,which has its good points and bad. The good side is that I don't need to actually work there on projects, you can leave and work at home once she's explained what you need to do whenever you like. The bad side is that its kind of hard to get at what she wants you to do because you can basically do whatever you want.
So, three very different professors, one semester, should be interesting.
On to the next topics, onward the brave and bold, traversing where few dare to venture!
Well, nothing that exiting comes to mind, but it sounded pretty good anyways.
So, in reading my mom's blog the other day, she had mentioned the show Ninja Warrior, which is, yes, about ninjas. More specifically, about people going through obstacle courses to test their ninja skills! The epicity can be imagined. But that reminded me of those other whacked out ninjas, namely Naruto! I watched a few episodes the other night, and was laughing at it the whole time as I was getting wrapped up in it. Not laughing in a good way, laughing as in, wow, those guys are really lame, do we need a flashback for every five seconds? But its still good. I mean, for being these little weekly cartoons churned out for japanese preteen boys, the quality is much better than a lot of them, in my experienced (not) opinion. If it was just, as Strongbad would say, a lot of crazy guys with blue hair flying around space in cool poses, then I probably wouldn't watch it, but, despite the entire lack of anything resembling a good plot, the fight scenes are good. Most animes stick with the whole, fist across a a screen of flashy lines and bad music for fighting, but when the ninjas in Naruto actually get out their shuriken and ninjutsu and whatever other mad skills they might have, you usually see it. Apparently its called a technical fight, where you see each move and its semi-realistic as to punches and whatnot, as opposed to an emotional fight, which is not a character wrestling with his inner conscience, but more of what I was describing before with the flying around in cool poses.
Feeling nerded out yet?
I've been watching tons of movies lately, like I said, Naruto, District 9, Matrix Revolutions, and the last episode of Lost about two hours ago. These were just over the weekend. I would go ahead and compare the fighting in Naruto to the fighting in the Matrix, as far as most anime goes. Not that I've seen tons.
I'm feeling pretty tired. So, to finish as we have begun, some quotes that I particularly enjoyed.
Lee Entrekin
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
You seriously crack me up, my dear! I love the way you express yourself. Your voice is so naturally yours - witty, random, but not thoughtless. You should write more often.
ReplyDeleteI hope you feel better this week :)
People are glaring at me in the library because I'm laughing out loud. Oh well. You're awesome.
ReplyDeleteYour teachers sound very.... varied. You'll do great! Here's a funny idea... act really, really stupid in your general zoology class, so that your teacher thinks you're dumb, but then write brilliant papers. Ha ha. I did that once for a class, and it totally baffled the professor (who was also arrogant and self-absorbed).