You know how sometimes you get in the mood to hear a certain song, and it's really random because you haven't heard it in forever, but it won't get out of your head, and it makes you sing snippets and write run-on sentences? Yeah. Lately and completely out of the blue I've been needing to hear "Out of My League" by Stephen Speaks. Talk about a random song to need to hear. I honestly don't have those kinds of feelings going on, but something of the melody of the song is drawing me. Anyway, I got on iTunes to download it, because I still have a few dollars from a giftcard a while back. Seached "Stephen Speaks" and up comes a page with two albums released in 2008... and nothing else. The old stuff has disappeared! No "Out of My League" or any notice of where it went. So I read some reviews, and one was cranky and said that this band wasn't the Stephen Speaks he was looking for, and that he found what he wanted under the singer's name, TJ McCloud. So I searched that way and found what I was looking for, but I'm confused. The album from which I have bought this same song before (thanks to computer problems and the stinginess of iTunes it disappeared a while back) is no longer available. Or in existence.

I just thought that was weird.

I am now registered-- courtesy of my academic advisor and his department secretary-- for 17 hours next semester. I'm taking:
Classical Film Theory
Cinema History 1
Honors (Every Other and Their Brother: A History of Anthropology)
Chemistry in Society
Chinese

I decided to make the change to take Chemistry this next semester so that I'd have a better balance in the Spring. Anyway, I'm excited about this semester's schedule. I think it'll be good. I have taken two of these professors before, and I've emailed another one of them a few times. I'm assured that my Chemistry professor is good, as well.

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Lately things on a more serious level here have been interesting. I can't go into it, and I don't want anyone to worry. But I think that there have been events in the past week or so that have been insight-bringing. And to a large part, I have to be thankful for the friendship that the Professor and I share. I'm afraid that even after all the supposed disdain I hold for him, he knows me more closely than anyone else probably ever has. And that's not a bad thing. Actually, he's being used to shed light on the skeletons I didn't know were in my closet. Or at least had glossed over.

So now people are all going to be trying to figure out what I might be talking about and probably worrying about me, and I don't want that. I probably won't ever tell you this content face-to-face. It's not all that important that everyone knows everyone else's business. But it is healthy that you, my friends see that I am working on these things. It is important that you can be aware that I'm working things out, and that you can be thinking of me. And I'd appreciate that a lot, actually.

T