• ACC101 Financial Accounting
• ACC204 Individual Tax Accounting
• ART128 Digital Photography I
• ART232 Digital Photography II
• ART160 Ceramics I (Took this a long time ago, but I was awful at it, mostly because I didn't really have the time to do it properly)
  
• ART215 Painting II (to finish the paintings I've already started)
• AUT129 Automotive Electrical Fundamentals and Applications
• BCT101 Principles of Construction
• BCT114 Blueprint Reading
• BUS100 Introduction to Busines
• BUS125 eCommerce
• CUL140 Culinary Principles (there are other cooking classes in the 'personal development' category)
• DAR111 Typography
• DAR115 Digital Video Editing
• DAR122 Desktop Graphics: Adobe Illustrator
  
• DAR124 Writing for Film and Television
  
• DAR175 Cinematography
• DAR215 Advanced Cinematography
• DAR218 Introduction to Film Music
• Early Childhood Education - basically everything not related to running a day care
  
• ECE107 Human Development and Relations
• ECE108 Literature/Social Studies for Children
• ECE117 Child Growth and Development
• ECE124 Math and Science for Children
• ECE125 Nutrition, Health, and Safety for the Young Child
• ECE211 Inclusion of Young Children with Special Needs
• ECE240 Assessment of Young Children
• Various EDU classes relating to getting my teacher's certification in Arizona
• FSS126 Intermediate Basketball
• FSS127 Advanced Basketball
• HIS114 Japanese Civilization
• HUM131 Mythology
• IDE100 Introduction to Interior Design
• IDE111 Fundamentals of Interior Design
• IDE155 Space Planning I
• JPN101 Elementary Japanese I
• JPN102 Elementary Japanese II
• JPN108 Japanese Anime
  
• JPN201 Intermediate Japanese I
  
• JPN202 Intermediate Japanese II
• LIT261 Modern Literature
• LIT262 American Poets
• MUS127 Aural Perception I (took this a long time ago...)
• MUS129 Aural Perception II
• MUS154 Jazz Improvisation
• MUS224 Aural Perception III
• MUS225 Aural Perception IV
• MUS257 Music Recording and Production
• MUP162 Guitar I
  
• MUP172 Guitar II
• MUP262 Guitar III
• MUP272 Guitar IV
• MUP164 Piano I
• MUP174 Piano II
• MUP264 Piano III
• MUP274 Piano IV
• MUP166 Voice I
  
• MUP176 Voice II
• MUP266 Voice III
  
• MUP276 Voice IV
• PHI120 Introduction to Logic
• REL130 Asian Religions
  
• REL234 Islam
• SPA201 Intermediate Spanish I
• SPA202 Intermediate Spanish II
• THE149 Introduction to Acting I
• THE151 Introduction to Acting II
• WLD110 Basic Arc and Oxyacetylene Welding
• WLD160 Arc Welding
• WRT126 Basics of Short Story Writing
• WRT206 Short Story Writing
  

Labels: ambition, college, music, school, To-Do

1. Re-wire the truck's entire electrical system with my awesome in-laws up in Prescott. Escape the heat, work online there, help them build their house, and get the truck to never-imagined levels of awesome.
   
2. Look up a new house to live in that has a yard, laundry machine, a place to work on the fiberglass dash I need to put into Rachel's truck, isn' insanely expensive, and is close enough to Bookman's that Rachel can walk. The discount we get for not driving to work (either of us) is nice.
3. Rent the place two weeks into August, and take those two weeks to move. Catalogue every last item. We'll be listing every item we own, and decide if we need it. If not, it's donated or sold. Keep the list for our house insurance, and update it as life goes on.
4. Rachel takes her last class for her Bachelor's Degrees in Creative Writing and English Literature (fall semester). She drives her amazingly well-running truck.
5. In January, I either get promoted to full-time at ITP, or keep working part time and begin finishing my teaching certificate. Either way, Rachel starts her graduate program classes in Library Science.
6. After that, things get a bit fuzzy, but for now:
   If we can afford it, sometime in Fall '08 or Spring '09, buy an RV, give the truck back to the in-laws for a while, tow the Bug and live on the road for about 3 months. Make a time-lapse video of the entire thing. Explore the entire United States, and decide on a place to settle down for the next few years. In all likelihood it will be in Arizona, but why not find out for sure? Living without regrets is a part of freedom.
   
7. Reproduce on the road! Our kids will not know exactly where they were conceived, and I think that's vaguely awesome.
8. Have kids. Name the girls Méria Jael and Artemis Ella; name the boys Aaron Isaac and Michael David.
   
9. Buy a house.
10. Live well.

Labels: ambition, college, gas, house, kids, money, Rachel, rant, RV, To-Do, work

Screw Greeks.
Go geek.

Related: Revenge of the Nerds was totally right about what geeks think about.

Currently listening : Angels of the Silences By Counting Crows

Labels: college, sex

Labels: college, random, school

She went to the U of A the same time I did, and went into the theater. I didn't see her a lot, but went to her shows (though often she never knew - I never did work up that nerve) when I could and have always suspected she'd do well. Since I've been looking up my old friends and aquaintences, I looked her up.

And she's been on "The O.C.", and "That 70's Show", and she's got a new movie. Awesome?! YES! Go Catherine! Woot! I wonder if I can even still contact her.

I also found Steph, whom I also had a terrible crush in my early years at UA, but hung out with me and introduced me to more super cool things than I could properly list. This is fun. I just hope they'll remember me.

Currently reading : BLACK SHRIKE By Alistair Maclean

Labels: Brophy, college, friends, movies, nostalgia, school, stories, true, TV

Assignment 1:

1 The influence of foreign languages - Latin and both Norman and Central French in particular - has always been important in the history of English. Explain in detail the patterns of influence of these languages (chiefly lexical but also orthographic, grammatical, and morphological) on English from the early Middle English times through the eighteenth century.

2 Suppose that the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, and Shakespeare were all seated in a room attempting to communicate with one another about matters in general. Explain in detail the advantages and disadvantages that each of them would have in speaking with the other two. Would any of those advantages or disadvantages be significantly different if they were writing to each other instead?

Assignment 2

1 Explain in a clear, orderly way the major phonological phenomena affecting the English language from Common Germanic times through the Old English period.

2 Clearly explain in as much detail as you can the major morphological features of Old English verbs, nouns, and adjectives that make those parts of speech different from their forms in Present-Day English.

um wow...

Currently listening : Led Zeppelin By Led Zeppelin

Labels: college, frightening thought, Rachel, school, stories, true

Labels: college, frightening thought, idiots, joke, stories, true