Dropping the Ball

Wow, so I missed a day. Oh no...

Well I guess it's just something not to make a habit. Plus that will just mean today's is extra long...

So on top of still feeling like an awful, awful person (for additional reasons than the previous due to misunderstandings), I've been having my first two days of class. It's so hot so walking to class from my far-off apartment building hasn't been much of a joy.

Monday was Philosophy 421 whose name is now Moral Considerability and Animal Science. As Professor Light explained it, we won't be talking as much about fetuses and machines because those issues are either very well drawn out or far from being drawn out, respectively. So he decided that we should talk about more considerability of animals because it represents to him what is generally considered a "moral blindspot" for the majority of people. The way he explained it was a lot better and made it sound less like a class about how animals have feelings. And it doesn't help that he is a pescatarian, who in his words, won't eat anything more neurologically complex than a fish. Regardless, I am confident he will be fair to all sides and we will be taking serious ethical and moral looks at animals in relation to human-like intelligence.

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:30 is Philosophy two-hundred-something: Philosophy and Literature. Should be decent, I hope. A ton of reading but easy essays and hopefully what seems to be no exams. I'm guessing we will just be taking a hard look at the issues, or something. I'm not a fan of the professor who seems to not be that great at public speaking... but hopefully it at least turns out to be an easy class.

Also on Tuesdays and Thursdays is my Psych 231 class at 3:00: Social Psychology. I'm pretty excited about that class since it's going to deal with a lot of what I'm interested in Psychology: how people act based on a perceived situation. It's funny because the professor (who is so boring to listen to) said that Psychology is based on early Philosophy, which I already knew. So basically when talking about Psychology and themes of perception, we're intermingling the science of the brain and Psychology with Philosophy, my minor and major, respectively. So I think it's pretty neat that what I'm doing in school is related to each other. He also talked about fundamental attribution error being people attributing how people act to their personality instead of the social situations they are in which is cool because I'm going to Personality Theory tomorrow! It's like ALL MY CLASSES ARE RELATED! Which is weird. And hopefully not as confusing as it could be.

As far as this blog project is concerned, I don't think I've really produced a lot that has to do with my professional writing career. Additionally, it hasn't motivated me to do any writing that I actually want to do.

And as far as my new job at the Broadside is concerned, I kind of regret it since it seems like my editor is purposefully pigeon-holing me into doing his dirty work like coming up with stories and taking credit for them. I mean all this really does for me is making me a professional story idea creator who gets to write the stories he comes up with. Wow... I was thinking (and was told) that I would be put into contact with people who run the Center for the Arts and local booking agents and nightclubs and being able to have some content control. Apparently not.

Well, I might see if I can wrestle some of that control from my editor via the Editor-in-chief. It will be a slow usurpation.

Else I'll be

Dropping the ball.