I know I have already said this in the previous four days of this love-fest, but man, I love having friends. It really wasn't that long ago that the only people I talked to were my mother and my sisters and my father. It wasn't that long ago that I barely left my bedroom, really. It's been just over a year since I came to Wells, but that year has pretty much revolutionized my entire life.

Also, I love some of my classes. One of them I pretty much hate, one of them barely qualifies as a class, but the rest of them are fantastic. I like Biological Bases of Behavior a lot, I love my yoga class, Poetry Writing is probably the best thing I am doing this semester, but today I had Gender Power Literature and Film, and I just really love Professor Lohn. She's fantastic. I used to be terrified of her, but now she's one of my favorite professors. Today she told us that we can write basically whatever we want for our second writing challenge, so I'm going to examine the noir aesthetic in Laura and Double Indemnity and compare the interactions between men and women in the books versus the movies. I really like film noir, and I really liked Double Indemnity a lot-- Laura was okay, not fantastic, but hey, noir is good whenever I can get it. And now I get to write a paper on it!

So aside from being in class I have spent pretty much the entire day bar maybe two hours with people I like. I like my boss, but she wasn't around for about half the time I was at work. Then I spent all of lunch running a voter registration drive with Phillip and Shane. Then I had class. Then I had dinner, and after dinner I went to look at Meg's artwork, which is mostly scary monsters made out of clay with a dead person for flavoring, and also crayon drawings of monsters. She's taking a lot of inspiration from the Little Fears game, which is cool. I think it would be neat to take a ceramics class, but I just don't have time for it. Which is probably for the best as I'm not very good at visual arts or design. I'm okay with words, I'm pretty decent with words actually, but I'm terrible at drawing and I'm not very good with making things with my hands. Aside from jewelry, I think my jewelry is okay.

Anyway. I went back to my room and poked at my thesis with a stick and got nowhere, and then I took it down to the computer lab where Shane and Phillip were working on their midterms and got about a page done. The problem is that chapter 2 is neuroscience, which I still haven't learned about, and chapter 3 is the scientific link between bipolar and creativity, which I only have one article to support yet. So by next week I'm supposed to have 11-15 pages for peer review, and I actually have... like four pages. Which makes me terribly sad. I have about ten articles I'm planning on reading in the train or in the car to MA this weekend, because I just haven't had the time for them yet. But they're mostly on the neuroscience. I need more studies backing up the link and I don't know where to get them. The one I have was only published this year, but most of the studies it refers back to are from the 80s and early 90s, and I was told to work with research from the past five years primarily. Which is hard to do if nobody is actually doing studies...

So I don't love my thesis, but I do love pretty much everything else that happened today.

Yoga is fucking amazing.

No, seriously. I went into class feeling like I wanted to punch someone in the face, and by the time I left I felt totally peaceful. A little sweaty, but peaceful. I really love doing yoga. My class ends next week on Thursday, and then the second half of the semester starts up and I have class at a different time. So instead of Tuesday/Thursday from 7 to 8, it will be just Tuesday from 7 to 8:40. I think she promised to do more breathing work in the longer class, which is good because I'm kind of done with ujjayi breath, I want to learn something else.

Also, I hate the lotus position. I can't get my feet that high up on my thighs. I just don't bend that way and it hurts to try.

So for my October project I am just going to post about things I love. Not necessarily about fall, just about my life right now in general. So for yesterday:

I love Apples to Apples! And I love combining groups of friends! Usually my groups of friends are fairly discrete, there are the Sex Collective and SAGA people and there are the Campus Greens people and there are the stoner people, and a couple of people fall into two groups but nobody falls into all three groups but me. So last night I combined the SAGA people with the Campus Greens people and we all had a lot of fun! Shane ended up winning the game with 12 cards, I think Mary had 11 and I had 10. And it was just a really good time being silly with a whole lot of people I like very much.

Also I love being able to sit with people at dinner. I like adding people to my list of acceptable dinner partners. Last night I had dinner with Will and Peter and Rita and Shane, I have eaten individually with Will and Peter but never with both of them together and not with Rita too, and it's just really entertaining to figure out the different things people will talk about and the different ways friends will tease each other and just how people behave in general. Which is probably why I'm a psych major.

Yesterday was a very good day. :)