SPRING BREAK 2010 WHOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!
I mean...nothing all that thrilling. I'm only in Dallas, no beaches or adventures here. But oh, the chance to sleep has been amazing.
in addition to sleeping, I have been
--watching The Big Bang Theory, Season 2. Four socially awkward, yet witty scientists + one pretty blonde across the hall=awesome.
--explaining the current season of Private Practice to my mother. Don't criticize, please. I love that show.
--enjoying my mom's AMAZING cooking.
--making delicious Oreo Balls (or "truffles"). mmm mmm good. You can tell I am not adept at cooking, because 1. the recipe is very simple. (no really, you should check it out) 2. it took multiple texts to my dear friend Sara Lemister to execute this very simple recipe successfully. Luckily, they turned out splendidly. This cooking discussion brings me to my mother's plan for me for the summer. She shared with me her concern regarding my lack of cooking knowledge, and that it would hinder me in my future marriage prospects. She feels this has been her personal failure, and is therefore going to teach me how to cook this summer. I feel like I'm in Mulan or something. I mean, it's 2010. A small part of me feels like something feministical should rise out of me and proclaim that all men and women are created equal, or precious in his sight, or something, and then tag on "with liberty and justice for all" somewhere in my speech...but then I realize, that at some point in my life, single or married, I will no longer have a meal plan, and I don't want to keep heating up these to live on.
Still, can't believe my mom some days.
--talking with Alia for hours at a time. Always good. At our traditional Starbucks, though both of us profess conversion to locally-owned coffeeshops instead. Still for nostalgia's sake, it is the place we met, because similar conversations have happened there, not to mention nearly the entire writing process of The Visitors, the production that she, Joshua, and I wrote and produced our Junior year of high school. So long ago...
so basically, I have been sleeping, watching TV, eating, and talking.
What sloth. I should be reading All the King's Men for cultures, but I can't bring myself to. I've heard it's good, but I mostly just resent it because I tend to resent books quasi-assigned over breaks. psh.
Speaking of books...well, I have no other great lead-in besides, I may be switching my major to Great Texts (of the Western Tradition). (<---is that parenthetical part typically included???)
anyways, here are some questions I have been asked so far:
Q: So, how is that different from English? (my current major)
A: Well, the classes sound cooler, and so do the profs. It sounds like some of the better parts of BIC, but more in-depth. And the booklists sound cool, too.
Q: What do GTX majors "do" with that degree?
A: Um, well, I don't have an answer for that now as an English major, so maybe this answer doesn't bother me like it should...but nothing specific. Even the website phrases this, oh so delicately: "Students in the applied arts may want to pursue a second major or a minor in Great Texts in order to strengthen their liberal arts background and broaden their educational horizons."
So maybe my answers aren't so great, but mostly, I'm just excited about the idea. And I have a few people I need to talk with to be sure about this decision, too. There it is.
My last thoughts:
I wish I was cool enough to wear this knitted headband thing, but I don't think I can pull it off. From the front, especially, I look like the lady on the cover of this book.
So I'll keep messing with it.
tomorrow=brunch, movie, and shopping with my little Wickett Erica Wickett. (The other sounds too much like "my little pony.") yayyyy!
anyways...off to more Big Bang Theory :)
Answer: When you are saying it in conversation, you leave it out; when you are writing it on something official, you always include it, because it makes your major sound WAY more pompous and legit, lol. Also, PLEASE come over from the dark side! We, the people on campus who avoid mediocre texts, would be more than thrilled to accept you into our fold and train you to engage texts as one of "the few" (as Lewis put it). Haha, seriously, though, GTX is fabulous -- it has, by and large, been the cause of most of the growth that has happened to me during my time at Baylor, as a scholar, as a Christian, and as a human being. If you ever want to grab coffee and talk about it sometime, you have my number! :-)