Lady sing the blues so well

If you haven't heard of Regina Spektor, you are missing out!! Her musical diversity, soulful voice, and lyrical creativity is consistently above and beyond any other femal artist I've ever heard of.
So check her out!!


In other news, school is going well. I've been trying really hard to understand my Comparative Politics class, and it's starting to congeal, if you will. Right now, we're talking about things like civil disobedience and comparing it in its effectiveness to political violence, and pontificating why osme groups would choose one over the other. Stuff like that. We watched a video on the WTO riots in Seattle, and a group called OTPOR that overthrew the government in Serbia. I guess it's interesting to me now, which makes it easier not to nod off...

Psychology has likewise taken a turn towards big intrigue. We're starting a unit on social psychology, and today we watched a video on mob mentality and conformity. One of the experiments was a subject sitting at a panel with buttons that induced different amounts of electric shock onto the other participant. [There was no one actually receiving the shock, but the subject didn't know that.] The subject would use an intercom system to ask a question to the other participant, and if they answered incorrectly, the subject owuld have to give them a shock of increasing voltage as a punishment. Each button was labeled with the voltage and how severe of a shock it would induce. The study showed that, when a scientist was in the room monitoring the behavior, 65% of people would continue to ask the questions and give the shock up to a known lethal level of 450 volts. 65%! And the quesitons were things like "Cat is to kitten as dog is to _________". I can't imagine it, but there is footage of these experiments. It's real!


Spanish is more of the same, learning the correct way to form commands. Zzzz... We've started readin Hemingway short stories in my Comp class, and we're beginning to talk about writing plays and musicals in Intro to Theatre. I'm going next Sunday with Sam to see Measure for Measure, a Shakespeare production put on by the theatre majors.

I've been going to the conversation group for Spanish, and a new boy joined us yesterday. He's a senior and he's preparing to do 4 months abroad in Guayaquil! I'm so excited for him. I know I'm a dork, but it's just about the most exciting time of your young adult life. He's going to have a blast :)
I've also been going to the Drawing Party on Wednesdays. I'm trying to get better at drawing consecutive straight lines, like |||||||, without my hand shaking too much. Instead of -, I have a lot of ~. It's relaxing, though, and I think I'm improving... We'll see how my hard work pays off on Wednesday.


The POINT of this post was to announce that I have made my Christmas list. Or, parts of it.
Paints are off the list, because I just ordered some right after my last post, but I can always use more!

1. Really, anything made for acrylic painting that can be found on dickblick.com would probably be useful.
2. Hane's V-neck undershirts. These are comfy, a good fit, and look nice under any shirt. I don't know exactly what size mine is because the tag rubbed off, but I'm guessing it's a Medium.
3. Skullcandy head phones. These are the best on the market for your money. In my wildest dreams, Santa would bring me those amazing Bose noise-canceling headphones, but all I really need right now is a pair that work so I can listen to music in peace. The reviews on these headphones are all stellar, and both Skullcandy and Best Buy have great return policies.
4. Drawing pens [.5mm tip], again from dickblick because they're so darn cheap, and a pack of printer paper. I could draw for days!
   

Okay, there may be more to come, but I am starving! and it's time for lunch. See ya!