It's almost 3:00, and I just now realized that Stephen and I are going
to the wedding of one of my coworkers to her college sweetheart.
Stephen and I addressed and stuffed envelopes today. Actually, we
didn't do the outer envelopes yet, because it took so long to draw up a
map to our sites. The church is in the middle of a nice 'burb and
very tricky to get to from the major highways.
Went to the Potter party at Borders (when did they become so much
cooler than Barnes and Noble, I ask you? (sorry, Amanda, I hope hanging
out with you will change my mind back)). We had a mean game of
Scrabble, grossing a total of over 700 points. I went out twice
but Evan still beat me. I didn't mind his winning, but it just
didn't seem like our best game. The board was pretty. Just
finished a ridiculous book called "Is She or Isn't She?", a clever
trashy sort of novel that got me hot in a few places. It was a
breeze of a read, but it's something I'll recommend to friends who are
between serious books. I seemed concerned for the main character,
but it was shallow, and I've almost forgotten her now.
Now, what to do a poster on? The assignment for my project is
something vague like "Do an aesthetically pleasing but content-filled
(equivalent of a five-page paper) poster on some (ANY) aspect of
natural philosophy." I'm floored and lost by the breadth of
possibilities. I was thinking Plato versus Lao Tzu, but my
teacher slyly reminded me that I can only do it if it's "natural"
philosophy (she can tell after only these few weeks of classes that I'm
more into the mystical ineffable). Another idea is Alchemy, but
I'll do the same thing there. It was put well during the first
class - "science" is more concerned with the "how" than the
"why." ::sigh::
Before I write my own little novel here, I'm going to leave to soak in the AC and maybe make some iced tea. Mwah!
::Stephen ends this post by turning "My Lady D'Arbanville" into a dirty song about fish and little boys... he is AWful::
Comments (4)
Thank you very much for the comment! Second person questioning is a device I use occasionally, but by no means often. Thank you again for the comment. (I see comments as always a good thing, just incase you'd not noticed from my blatancy.)
Good luck with your poster! I'd offer some sort of advice, but I know far too little of Lao Tzu and less of Plato, so I can't really help at all. Although, unless I'm mistaken, Lao Tzu is the one associated with Taoism, correct? If that is the case, then I fail to see how it is not "natural", considering that Taoism is based entirely on a person's oneness with his or her surroundings.
"I thought you said he was dead!"
"No, I told you, 'he sleeps with the fishes'"
"I think I'm gonna be sick"
And I'm sorry I missed the Potter Party in my town--but I have the book. Too mysterious to open, yet. Don't want to spoil it.