I can’t express enough how much I love this girl!

I can’t express enough how much I love this girl!

Next semester (Spring 2010)

Finalized schedule!

MONDAY/WEDNESDAY:

2:00-2:50

Administration of Justice - Purpose, function, and history of agencies dealing with administration of justice; survey of criminal procedures; organization of law enforcement agencies at federal, state, and local levels; organization and functions of courts; probation, parole, and pardons; penology and prison administration; purpose and function of victim services.

3:30-4:45

Philosophy of Law - Nature and functions of law; methods of justifying legal systems; logic of legal reasoning; analysis of fundamental legal concepts.

6:00-9:50

Fiction Writing - Beginning workshop in the writing of fiction; appropriate reading and analyses. (MONDAY ONLY)

TUESDAY/THURSDAY:

9:30-10:45

Senior Seminar (Philosophy) - Intensive investigation of selected problems, major figures, or a historical period in philosophy. Extensive writing and supervised research.

11:00-11:50

Chamber Singers

2:00-3:15

From Bacon to Kant - Development of early modern philosophy: the search for new scientific methods — Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Newton, and Locke; empiricism and skepticism — Berkeley and Hume; rational ist metaphysics — Leibniz; influences on moral and political thought -the Enlightenment; Rousseau; Kant’s critical philosophy.

FRIDAY:

2:00-2:50

Administration of Justice

For a grand total of 5 classes and 16 units.

For Fall 2010:

  • Ethical Theory - Introduction to the fundamental concepts and problems of moral theory. Examination of various ethical theories, including relativism, egoism, utilitarianism, intui tionism, and non-cognitivism; the meaning of ethical terms.
  • Fieldwork in Philosophy and Law - Practical community work-study experience in legal or paralegal setting. Student works under sponsorship of a law firm or law-related agency, meets periodically with instructor, and submits a written report on relevant issues in ethics, jurisprudence, or philosophy.
  • Advanced Poetry Writing
  • Advanced Fiction Writing
  • Biology & Lab

AND I’M DONE!!

Oh, Oskar.

I pointed at his shirt. “Do? You? Really? Love? New York?” He said, “New York?” I said, “Your. Shirt.” He looked at his shirt. I pointed at the N and said “New,” and the Y and said “York.” He looked confused, or embarrassed, or surprised, or maybe even mad. I couldn’t tell what he was feeling, because I couldn’t speak the language of his feelings. “I not know was New York. In Chinese, ny mean ‘you.’ Thought was ‘I love you.’” It was then that I noticed the “I♥NY” poster on the wall, and the “I♥NY” flag over the door, and the “I♥NY” dishtowels, and the “I♥NY” lunchbox on the kitchen table. I asked him, “Well, then, why do you love everybody so much?”

— Oskar Schell, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)

Robert De Niro & Elmo

Wow, this had me really LOLing

Norah Jones & Elmo

Lea Salonga “Too Much For One Heart”

I love her!

Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is undergoing more rapid star formation than our own Milky Way galaxy, especially in its nucleus. (via) Click photo for hi-res.

Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is undergoing more rapid star formation than our own Milky Way galaxy, especially in its nucleus.

(via)

Click photo for hi-res.

To The Old

For Dominga Javier Enriquez

Your skin like the onion paper
I drew squiggles on with red ink
has developed small brown spots
like overexposed photographs,

yellowed from sitting untouched
in the wooden box under my bed.
The dark strands are an unnatural
frame around your droopy face.

The way you smile is unchanged—
still bright as a canary singing—
a burst of color in the middle
of the grayness of your complexion.

Your stance, once proud and tall,
is now a question mark without a dot,
flowing down to the brown earth
with which you’ll soon reunite.

But you have forgotten much.
Sino siya? What is your name?
Remembering has become as foreign
a language to you as English is.

I am no keeper of memories.
When your body follows your mind
into the abyss of what is next—
when I will myself to let you go—

you will linger, in those places
you have been with me, as a whiff,
a half-memory, teetering in between
remembering and moving on.

© Patricia De Guzman, 2009

50 days til Christmas. Miss ko na ang Pasko sa Pilipinas! Kulang ang Pasko ‘pag walang mga parol :( (via)

50 days til Christmas.

Miss ko na ang Pasko sa Pilipinas! Kulang ang Pasko ‘pag walang mga parol :(

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I love this artist. (via ninyako: spyglasstree: killingbambi: booklover: invisibleadmiration: loveyourchaos)

I love this artist.

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One of the best days of my life

  • Attended the “debate” between students and President Welty at school
  • Got in line to speak out when the floor was opened
    • Got cheered on, yeahh!!
  • Got interviewed by two tv stations
    • (although either they didn’t broadcast my footage or I missed it)
  • Went into the nic-naks place I checked out once before, and the SLR was still there. I decided to finally check it out, and I bought it for $35! :)
  • And I got some bacon pizza, yummm

Beginning of the debate with President Welty.

Niiiice. (via ninyako: failurebydsgn: treestop: doodlesketch)

Niiiice.

(via ninyako: failurebydsgn: treestop: doodlesketch)