Hippie Professors @ MindSay

Thank goodness this week is finally winding down. I'm exhausted!  I had a long homework assignment due Wednesday. I started it on Monday because I didn't want to end up waiting until the last minute.  I had yet another homework assignment due today.  Basically, I've been staying up everyday this week working on homework!

Yesterday, "the husband" left to do some art work at some convention in Beaumont. It will be just me and my little girl until Friday afternoon.  My kiddo had early dismissal (12:00 noon) yesterday so I had to fly from work to pick her up. Then she went with me to U of H so I could turn in my homework assignment.  She was so cute because she wanted to wear her backpack on campus.  One of the professors asked if she was his new doctorial candidate! Of course, I had to show her the reflection pool. She absolute loved it!  I don't know why, but she spread out her arms and yelled "Thank you God!" LOL! Kids!

Today, I had class with Professor Hitabong, so my mother picked up my little one. I'm so thankful that I have so much help! Anyway, I've been getting some really positive feedback from the hippie professor on my papers. I may actually get a good grade in this class!

Tonight, I will finally get to go to bed before 3:30 AM!  I definitely need the rest because I have to work at the church tomorrow night. *sigh*.  I'm going to mentally unwind and read for pleasure.  Nothing helps you relax and unwind like Erotica Vampirica edited by Cecilia Tan herself.

Ciao!

Yayyyy! I got my paper back from Professor Free Love and he actually liked it! I got comments like "good points" and "The analytical presentation here is excellent. Truly like a case history." Unfortunately, the one I turned in today is pure rubbish.  I have to admit I was tired as hell and this head cold I still have (if it is a head cold) made it difficult for me to write a decent sentence, let alone attempt to do an in depth psychoanalysis of Good Will Hunting. I should have apologized in advance for turning that crap in! LOL!

Today in class we watched the movie Equus based on the controversial play by Peter Shaffer.  Let me tell you folks, the screenplay is disturbing, yet brilliantly written. It is about a 17 year-old boy who is admitted to a psychiatric hospital for blinding six horses with a metal spike. Dr. Martin Dysart, a successful psychiatrist, is sent to find out why.  Dr. Dysart soon discovers that young Alan has a pathological facination with horses.  His mother was extremely religious and his father was stern and quietly controling.  He was very sheltered and isolated and had no social contacts.

His facination with horses began at the age of six when a handsome stranger on a horse offered to give him a ride. He felt his first stirrings of arousal galloping on the horse with this strange man and  transfered that experience of arousal to the horse and not the handsome rider. Not only did this transfer include relating sexual arousal to the horse, thanks to his mother's religious views, he related sex to religion. What emerged was a twisted reality in which God became the spirit of the horse, Equus. 

The movie had some disturbing scenes including a scene where Alan fashions a makeshift bridle for his head and pulls on it while performing a ritual of flagellation. Another disturbing scene showed him stealing a horse out of the stables and riding him naked until he climaxed. Crazy stuff huh?  Wanna hear something even crazier?  In the 2007 version of this movie, Daniel Radcliffe, (yes Harry Potter) will play the part of Alan! Zoiks! Talk about shredding your wholesome image! Nothing helps to shred your squeaky clean image better than playing a psychotic, repressed homosexual. Yowsers!

Because I've had two papers due this week, my brain is plumb tired. It hurts from doing too much analysis. I bought some romance novellas to help me tune out of psychoanalysis and critical review mode.  They don't take long to read because none of them have more 100 pages.  Environgirl is working on writing a novella herself. She needs to hurry it up! LOL!

Well today I had the dreaded meeting with Professor Birkenstock. I got there early so I could have time to stop sweating from my trek across campus. I wouldn't want to meet the man sweating and looking like I've been to an Evangelical Revival. I looked at my watch and saw that I still had about a five minute wait until my 2:00 pm appointment. I decided to see if I couldhave my meeting a bit early, but when I got to his office a visibly upset classmate was sitting in the chair looking quite upset.  I heard him say,

          "Well, you obviously didn't like what my paper said the last time and I want to know what the deal was."

I tipped-toed back to the study area and immediately called Environgirl to bitch and whine. After all, this guy was going put Professor Lovepeace in a bad mood before I had to see him! "Thanks for warming him up for me asshole!" I cried.  E-girl told me to calm down because she had a feeling that things would go well and ya know what? SHE WAS RIGHT! We actually just sat down and talked. He asked me if I liked the format of the class and he asked me about my career plans. Then he said,

        "Well, I just wanted to let people know I wasn't the asshole I appear to be in class." I was shocked!

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As I've mentioned earlier, I've been feeling under the weather lately. I have a cold or allergy infection and I had a fever this morning. I didn't get to work until 9:00 AM because I was trying to sleep off my fever.  I took some Non-Drowsy Tylenol Cold and Allergy tablets and felt so drowsy it took me 10 minutes to brush my teeth.  I don't know how I made it to work -- I must have been driving on autopilot.  Oh well, that non-drowsy stuff is starting to kick in now...zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Current mood: Relieved 

Current music: Si Te Vas by Marc Anthony

Today the husband and I met with my daughter's teacher for a parent / teacher conference.  Her teacher is such a sweet lady! She told us that my little bug was a very smart girl who has to be corrected now and then for being talkative in class. I could tell she was trying to be gentle and not upset us, but I told her to lay down the law with my little one and not treat her with kid gloves.  She moved her to the front of the class and I am pleased with that. She later showed us Little Cocoa's work and she seems to be doing very well and is actually a bit ahead of most of the class.  *beams with pride*

I am a tad bit under the weather so I've been kicking up the zinc and vitamin C in my diet. I was feeling so rundown at work today I almost fell asleep during my 3rd period class.  When I finally got home around 12:30 (I left early), I passed out and went into a deep sleep. I didn't wake up until 4:00 PM!

I'm still working on my analysis of the movie "Ordinary People" for my class with Professor Flower Power. I'm starting to panic because I have to meet with him  individually on Thursday and I'm worried about what he's going to say. I think the man has it in for me, I really do. *shudders* I've been so upset about this class that I feel like I'm neglecting my Educational Psych class. I will rectify that this Friday, Saturday and Sunday because I have a homework assignment due in that class next Wednesday.

I find it ironic that as soon as my life gets busy, I have more ideas for short stories and novellas floating around in my head. I try to write down the ideas that come to me and make an outline from them so I can put them aside and come back to them later.  Hopefully, my creative juices will still be flowing when I finally get the time to start writing again.

Could somebody please tell me how in the hell I'm going to get a grade in this class? I got my homework assignment back from Professor Tie Die and there was no grade on it! He just made comments on people's papers. It appeared, that the more comments he made, the better he liked the paper.  True to form, your's truly got a whopping THREE comments!  1) He questioned my use of a word to describe a woman's melt down. I said she went on a tirade - he wasn't sure that was the right word to use.  However it is a journaling assignment and supposed to be based on what I felt about the clips we watched.  2) He said I was exactly right on one point I made so I guess that's a plus for me.  3) He said my conclusion was too brief.

Anyway, he read from some papers he liked (not mine) and I still don't know what the man wants and most importantly, I don't know how I'll be graded when we don't get grades. This makes me nervous because he could easily give me a C or worse because he isn't quite "feeling" me! Ugh!!!!!! We all have to sign up to meet with him individually and I signed up for next Thursday. I'm as nervous as long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. I'll probably need a valium just to make it through the meeting. I don't know why, but I have a feeling he will let me know exactly how much he doesn't like me. Sacre bleu!