| My Life: October 1: I have a headache. Brendan doesn't know how to make beds. I really should go to my first class, but there's a 90% chance that I won't. Social Psych and Bible Study tonight. More page building. Should have gotten my car inspected. I'm such a lazy ass. Wrote a poem in class tonight. Depressed myself. Learned about Attribution Errors. Fascinating. Trying to muster up the courage to study for the test I have tomorrow morning. Wish me luck! October 2: So I didn't muster up the necesary courage, but it seems that staying up to late wallowing in self-pity is just as effective. I only got two wrong on my exam. Go me. Now let's see if this will hold true for the IMPOSSIBLE tests I have coming up. I still have two more classes today. 6 hours of classes in one day. What was I thinking?! October 3: Have a test (kizz) at 2. Grrr. I hate studying, but the dedicated student that I am, I'm going to the library after class to studying for the history test from hell. Why did I let my roommate talk me into a 400 level history class? Speaking of my roomate: I had a Loretta sighting today on the way back from having my car inspected. He talked to me! (so cute!) and I was feeling good. Until Cherie told him that I have huge teeth. God, I think I'm going to bite her. I feel another fight with Pinky coming on. I hate this. This isn't what friendships are about, is it? Grr again. I have to make sure I go out and play extra hard tonight after all the studying I've done lately. Brendan's sick and may not go to Autumnfest. This is a SACRELIGE ( so I can't spell)! My mom offered to make him chicken soup. We'll see. _______________________________ Saw Loretta again at dinner. He looked sad. Apparently it was Brendan's turn to embarrass me, and not Cherie's. Role reversal. October 4: Fight did happen. Grr. But I learned something interesting in class today I finally figured out why I�m a psych major. Wow. Class today totally blew my mind. In Psychology of Personality we learned about Alfred Adler�s theory of Individual Psychology. Everyone develops feelings of inferiority due to early childhood experiences. Because of that we strive for superiority. People have different ways of expressing their desire for superiority. People who are well adjusted and well socialized express it through a desire to better society, help mankind and have concern for others. People who are poorly socialized and poorly adjusted have a �look at me, I�m not inferior! I�m special!� attitude. They try to prove personal superiority and glory. Different people have a different style of life. A style of life is the way one makes himself feel powerful, competent and the way in which he gets people to do what he wants. Some people do this using a form of control called dependency. Basically this is controlling because it is relying on the other persons concern for others, which leads them to a concern for you. The other person wants to be a good person, so they have to fuel the dependency. Interesting, huh? I thought so. I have a scary test today and I also have tentative plans with Lenny. Hopefully it turns into a good day. Why do I think I'll do okay on the test? Check this shit out: 12 Slavic languages: Russian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Serbian, Polish, Macedonian, Ukraine, Croat and Bellaruss. October 5: Apparently I was a bit overconfident about the exam =(. I just woke up and I'm now getting ready for what I hope will be a great weekend. I get to see my Melissa after work tonight! I'm coming back to school Sat night, bc I'm kidnapping Brendan and holding him hostage at my house Sun and Mon. AutumnFest this weekend! YAY! I love Autumnfest. Hopefully Brendan will too. He's feeling better, which is good because now I don't have to bribe him to come up anymore. It's only a week until Cherie's b-day. Good thing I already bought her her gift. Well I'm off to make myself...clean for work. Long weekend so I may not talk to you all until Monday night or Tuesday. October 9: Had a GREAT weekend. AutumnFest sucked, so we ended up spending almost no time there. Had fun with Melissa, and Brendan seemed to get along very well at my house. Of course I have to repeat this entirely off comment my dad made. For some reason I was talking about why I don't need to entertain Brendan and I said "yeah, he's pretty self-entertaining" and my dad goes "I hear u can go blind from that." At least it wasn't as bad as the time he offered to hit on Mike for me. I also had an exam this morning, a loretta sighting at lunch AND beautiful boy in my class talked to me. <sigh> I heard from my cousin this morning. He's been stationed in Egypt. It's so tough for his wife. Silly war. I'm silly too. I've been going through the whole what do I want for my life versus what do I need. I just want to run out and do exactly what I want. Yay for some remote level of self-control. I'm going to pretend to do something productive. Home Next> |