Old Years Resolutions

We seem so eager to set these resolutions for the new year but hardly look back on those which were set last year.  Since I left the home I've given up the trendy setting of New Years Resolutions.  this does not then mean that I have given up goal making.  So I'm going to review some goals from the previous year.  
1.  Figure out what field I want to enter for Graduate school.
    a.  so this was a bit spotty.  I took a handful of Central and South American culture classes and even a Marxist class.  I figured if I was going to pursue this interest I would want to know more of the theories on  which many governments have been based throughout history.
    b.  I started also taking classes in Peace and Justice studies.  This led me to pursue a minor in that.  This I would say was my biggest success from that goal. These classes have led me to want to attend the Kroc Institute at Notre Dame (application is in).


That was probably my biggest goal over the previous year.  The others were small and short term so I won't go into them.




For those of you who are into the year long resolution write them down and post them around to remind you.

Finals Finished

Gratefully finals are all over.  I didn't figure they would be too bad this year even though this was the first semester since generals that I had to take a final where it was worth more than half of my total grade.  This didn't bother me too much since it was multiple choice and those aren't too bad to study for.  The nervousness kicked in when I opened to the test to discover it was not M.C. but instead a fill-in-the blank.  Good thing I didn't have to deal with a crummy testing center and the professor was there.  The class came together to protest this change in the test and we collectively won and the test became open book.  Woot.


So this holiday season I am unfortunately not going home mostly because of work but the lack of money assisted in the cause.   Though that lack of money also means that my stay here in Utah won't include and snow sports up at a resort.  So i'm doing a lot of reading this break sticking mostly to the classic russian novels.  Though i should look up some good books in Spanish and brush up on my more academic spanish rather that just the conversational spanish that the mediation volunteering helped with this past semester.  So if any of you followers have ideas for fun be sure to share in the comments below.   And a merry christmas to you all


Also because of its uber awesomeness.  (I can't find the umlaut) 

Murr

Nothing much to expound on but I just wanted to write that I'm am ever so grateful for music. Even though I am an awful player I am able to find such solstice in the making of music. Whether it be in the wind symphony, my various quintets, by myself or the orchestra, I am able to hide away from the world for just a bit and hopefully provide something similar for others who listen.

My life is crazy recently and I've been able to go away to my land of music quite often as an escape.

On another note, I have been taking classes that are electives for my major but don't apply to sociology and I miss it soo much. Even though I am enjoying my Mediation classes and even more so the volunteering at the various courts and schools around the county I want to dive back into my major classes. Academic reading just doesn't cut it.