Little thoughts

Over the last few months I've noticed a severe drop in my LJ posting. I've determined that a good part of this is due to me self-censoring many things as 'too trivial'. Instead of writing for the paper-memory aspect of a journal, I find myself in the "writing for an audience" mode. This is a trap all too easy to fall in to.

Today was the third time I wished I could go back and re-read something I'd thought up a few months ago -- but didn't jot down. This means that it's time to start using the LJ for all the little ideas again too, and not just public-forum type of stuff. Don't worry too much, though... I know how to use cut-tags and friend-filtering to keep from being too spammy. :)

( Thought for the day: forum behavior. )

audiovisually vindicated

There were very few 'fluff' classes for me during college. I took a whole mess of college-level entry placement (CLEP) tests and got out of almost two entire years worth of requirements. Aside from a few various humanities courses I was able to spend most of my years there on core classes. It made for an insanely busy time but at least it was never boring.

I still had to take one or two non-core things, though. In my last year there I needed another humanities credit but was already doing an insane 22 credit-hour term. I picked "Music Appreciation", figuring I could use the destress-and-listen time. This turned out to be a very interesting and informative class -- moreso than I would have expected. While most of the class went very well I did have one disagreement with the prof that stuck with me for a good long while. ( Read more... )