"The Ballad of Love and Hate" is amazing. One of the most lyrically powerful songs I've ever heard. I love the duality of it all. It's a personified narrative but also maintains commentary on the abstracts of love and hate. My favorite word in the whole song is "whatever"; their play on it is magnificent, especially in this day and age. I feel like it's a commentary on our attitudes as a society. "Whatever" has come to mean "I don't care", or even further, "I don't care about you", divorce rates go up, relationships fail, meaning falls through. But when we actively turn that dismissal on it's head, when we revert to the true sense of the word, "regardless" or "through all things", we regain the wholesome, truly loving relationship. Genius.
This week went well. Aced my persuasive speech. I emailed Mathews to say thanks after I got that complement on my analysis. It was good to get in touch with him. I really feel like that class utterly prepared me for college. He invited me to coffee over break and to come back to speak to AP English, which should be fun because at least four kids from SF have told me they're interesting in UP and want to visit me. I'm so excited to show them around! Also been in touch with Marheineke about the papers for Cade's baptism. He sounds like he's really getting things going there, he said that he got to meet Sr. Helen Prejean and give a talk at a human rights conference. I'm so excited for him because that can only mean more opportunities for core team. He told me to graduate already so they can hire me at St. Francis and help him change the world. It was weird because I was just realized a few weeks ago that I might want to do that when I was talking to Janie about what I want to do after school. It just came out and I realized I'd love to do that. I got a lot from that school and I'd like to give that back to future generations. Plus that community is just so well connected, you can get a lot done. So during politics the other day, I looked up what it would take to change my major to teaching, and that's DEFINITELY not going to happen, but that doesn't have to be the only path I'd take. I could always do Denise's job, I already know it all already anyway haha.
So tonight was registration. It was extremely stressful but Maya, Lindsey, Annie and I just had a registration party in my room and we all got each other prepped and through it successfully. So here are my courses for next semester. For now I'm a Organizational Communications major with a potential Social Justice Minor, if I can squeeze it in. But with Salzburg I use up a lot of my elective credits and Org Comm has more upper division hours than most majors so I'm basically going to be doing all of those when I get back.
Intro to Philo- Evangelist
Macroenomonics-Allender
Elementary German-Hill
Writing and Reporting-Weisensee
Entrepreneurial Marketing-Ritter
and then, I seriously just decided to take this on the spot, because everyone else had more than 15 credits and I felt like a slacker, and I don't have any classes Tuesday or Thursday and I don't like that because I want something to get me out of bed and get me going, and I want that social justice minor so I added
Foundations of Education-Antcil
It can only have 5 people in it, interestingly enough, and I am only the 2nd person to register for it. I'm going to talk to my advisor about it. I can always drop it if I'm too busy. Prof looks awesome though. I'm so happy with Hill for German too, I'll definitely miss her next year. Macro is going to suck but Molly and possibly Kelly are in it, and I'll have it all out of the way when I get back from Salzburg. I found that my 5 on AP Bio got me out of TWO WHOLE SCIENCE classes so I don't have to take science ever again! Although I was kind of looking forward to the chemistry and art class, but it really did involve science so that's okay hah. I feel like Weisensee will be better for writing and reporting because she's actually a free lance and her writing is really good. And gives me a lot of constructive feedback on my writing. Plus, she's really nice. With all that and Relay for Life, Honors, Border Plunge, CEC, and Social Science Club, I'll be pretty busy but hopefully I'll stay sane :) I just really hope that I have time to do E-scholars junior year. That program looks awesome.
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