The latest reading.

I’m on the third chapter, wishing I was further along. Two tests and a paper this week have slowed me down a bit. The schedule and deadlines that come along with most sorts of schooling are beginning to aggravate me, especially when there are so many good books (that don’t involve human anatomy) out there just waiting to be appreciated. Also, this lovely fall weather: it seems such a crime to be inside.

The first two chapters, Rethinking Thinking and Schooling the Imagination, have left me in deep appreciation of my parents and all of their efforts to encourage, rather than stifle, imagination and thinking. It also goes along nicely with my psychology class, as we’re studying brain functions etc. If we were honest, I’d be getting credit for neurology and not psych, but ah well.

I’ve gotten slogged down enough in studying and homework this week that, when I have an empty hour, all I wish for is Mindless Things (also known as the devil, or television). Sketchbook and pens are looking lonely, the books on the shelf are awfully forlorn, and my journal … the pile of textbooks on top of it may be indicative of its disuse. 

Here’s to getting back into the real swing of things.