Another semester, another panic induced freak out over classes and schedules and I’mnotgettingtheclassesIneedorwant.

Except I did. My first choice schedule didn’t work out, one of the two classes I really needed was closed already. Cue panic. After freaking out for 10 minutes I finally realized that I have a million general education classes I still need as well as six linguistics classes. Use one of those to fill in moron!

So:

Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Public Education
The exploration of differing views of the aims of public education in America. The study of the historic settings in which the system developed. Identification of major social and cultural problems in relation to their historic antecedents. The study of various philosophic schools of thought and their impact on educational theory and practice, past and present.

Education and Individual Differences
Consideration of individual differences and principles of human development as factors in creating effective learning environments. Emphasis on: (1) understanding children and adolescents as individuals with differing abilities, aptitudes, interests, emotional responses, and accomplishments as the result of genetic, maturational, and environmental factors. Special attention given to children and adolescents covered by Public Law 94-142; (2) observational skills for assessing differences in order to aid student development. Focused study by each student of children or adolescents at a particular age level. (3) application of knowledge of developmental and individual differences to classroom practice. Twenty hours of classroom observation required

Language and Human Behavior
Subjects covered may include dialect variation, language and the brain, child language acquisition, language and gender, conversational analysis, non-verbal behavioral, pidgins and creoles, and sign language.

Introduction to General Linguistics
An overview of the description of language systems in terms of phonology (sound systems), morphology (word formation) and syntax (sentence organization). May also include an introduction to the areas of semantics (word meaning), pragmatics (the rules of the use of language in social contexts and conversation), and dialectology (cultural and geographical varieties of language use), and a look at the history of English and its relationship to other languages.

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Focus on cultural practices and institutions among ethnic groups the world over. Examines the roots and results of notions of difference, otherness, and prejudices among peoples.

They all seem pretty interesting. Cultural anthropology will probably end up a pretty generic class? But I need it and it isn’t the worst sounding one I’ve taken. Nothing can be as bad as children’s literature last semester D:

Now I’m registered, starting my elementary education coursework. Time to watch some fireworks and get drunk on a boat!

yellow owl and bird cupcakes, originally uploaded by hello naomi.

I demand these for my birthday. HINT HINT DEAR BOYFRIEND.

Chicago is weird. Maybe they were late for work!

Yay weekend! Usually by Monday I can’t remember what the heck I actually did, BUT THIS TIME I DO LET’S CELEBRATE!

Friday was stay in and watch some Gilmore Girls and eat foods day. So that’s kind of boring to everyone else!

Saturday le beau and I finally saw UP. 1. it is an amazing movie. 2. it is an incredibly sad movie. There was crying and hand squeezing. I’m really really happy with what Pixar is doing these days. When we were leaving the theatre it was noticed that The Hangover was starting in 10 minutes. Hmmm… Word on the street was that it was actually a pretty good movie, so we decided to *sneak* *sneak* *sneak*. Something I hadn’t done since I was a wee teenager. Something that needs to happen more often :D Especially for movies that I kinda want to see, but I don’t care if I have a movie ticket for (yes, I’m one of those.). It was an alright movie? I enjoyed it, but eh!

We made super yum mish-mash dinner of random. Salad, boiled potatoes and fresh greenbeans that were then cooked in the pan with some olive oil(?) for a bit. Sounds weird, but it was delicious!

After stuffing of faces, more watching of Gilmore Girls, sitting around doing nothing, we decided to go out and do something that was bad news. We went out for a drink. A singular drink. Which of course didn’t happen. But! We found a pretty neat bar near the beau’s house that we both wish we had decided to visit a lot earlier. Bar bands need to be seen asap.

Then yesterday was Pride. Unfortunately we were lazy and didn’t get out the door until 1p or so, so we missed most of the parade. But meeting up with the beau’s uncle and having fun and eating yummy lunch/dinner was great :D Of course I took no pictures.

We took a nap at 7p that turned into sleeps for the night. Oops.

Best weekend!

Danny put his pizza down on the table while Henry was sitting in the chair. After checking it out with this nose, he started staring at it.

O_O

First trip to the beach this year! Beach hair and sand everywhere. The dolphin squeaks.

To anyone that knows me it is no secret that I really (reallyreally) like The Hold Steady (maybe?!). There isn’t some deep meaningful reason why. Or at least I haven’t figured it out yet. The music they make is beautiful. And rad. And thoughtful. And there isn’t anything to say describing how I feel whilst listening to their music that doesn’t make me sound like a fucking hipster.

Citrus is currently my favorite song, which resides on the album Boys and Girls in America. As any nerd would do, the albums are ranked in my brains and this album is number one.

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Jason (friend, not brother), my beau, and I went to see The Hold Steady at the Taste of Randolph street fair. Before a few months ago when we learned The Hold Steady was going to play I had never heard of this street fair. Yesterday I found out why. It sucks. They were asking for donations to build a community park. Which sounds quite lovely if it were not in a disgustingly rich neighborhood. It makes sense to ask for donations at an event that takes place in an affluent neighborhood, but it still made me sort of angry.

I did not make a donation. I was also kind of a jerk and pushed past someone who was. It made sense at the time? I thought it would take longer than it did, I also didn’t want to stand in line for something I wasn’t going to do. But it was a jerky thing to do. Oops!

Anyway! It was a good show. It was kind of hot and a little humid so people were more sweaty than usual. I was sad that someone was rocking out so much during Your Little Hoodrat Friend that I got beer spilled on me. They should have picked a better song.

But.

BUT.

During the encore they played Citrus. It was #1 on my wishlist of songs to hear live. Previously I had apprehension about hearing it live, I didn’t want it ruined by jerks singing along.

But.

BUT.

I held my beau’s fingers and squeezed them during my favorite parts. I may have teared up a bit. It was amazing.

First a note to my LJ friends:
I installed a wordpress plugin that will cross-post entries I write on my site. I’d really like to start up with it again, but I don’t want to stop writing on lj altogether either. The end!

In other news, being sick sucks. Surprise! The past four days have been pretty awful. I finally broke down yesterday to go to an urgent care thingy in a Walgreens :| The little old lady was nice enough, if not a little awkward with the small talk she didn’t need to add into this already awkward visit. Seeing someone for an illness inside a Walgreens is strange. But it got the job done. One rapid strep test later and I was out the door with some antibiotics.

Which seem to be doing the trick. Waking up and not immediately wishing I didn’t exist was a great feeling. Going to the grocery store was a tiring experience, but other than that I’ve felt mostly alright. THANK GOD because there is a party to go to on Saturday and we’re going to see The Hold Steady (lol) on Sunday.

In other news! I want to make lemon cupcakes. Om nom nom.

Since I decided to attempt to start up a new site, I wanted to update it with things other than my rambles. Posting music seems like the bestest idea to accomplish that.

So, I think I might upload what song I’m super into at the time. Which right now is Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear.

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I predict this will be the song of summer 2009 for me. It just has this summer sound to it for me (not necessarily lyrically mind you).

This is mostly here to see how photos will look with this new design, but it’s also a pretty nice picture if I do say so myself. It was a great afternoon of lying under a tree a couple weeks ago. I had been feeling a bit under the weather so I couldn’t join in as my friends played Frisbee, but it was a great day anyway!