Current mood:	pondering
Current music:	Sleeps With Butterflies - Tori Amos

Classes, classes, classes...
Vaguely interesting meme time!
There's been an accident, and my memory's been wiped. I have no recollection of who I am. Tell me about myself. What do you know about me? What kind of person am I? What are my likes and dislikes? How did we meet and how long have we known each other? Is there one thing in particular that stands out about me? Tell me who I am.

Anyway, as for lately...
I'm going to end up having to take physics I over the summer, it looks like, as PHYS 121 next fall will conflict with both of my possible organic chem I classes that same semester. Not sure where I'll end up taking it, though. Still waiting to hear back from my advisor to see if there's anything I can do to avoid having to do summer courses at all first.

If I take it here at Case, my scholarship applies, but my parents want me to get a summer job and that'll be six weeks I can't work back home, though I could get a campus job here.

If I take it at Pitt for transfer credit, I can't use my scholarship, but it's $800 less tuition plus I could theoretically commute so that's no room and board, though a lot of gas money. I could keep a summer job at home in that case, though, and just only be available until 4PM instaed of all day on the days I have class. Just as well, since I can't get campus employment at Pitt as only a summer student. (And I could also in theory get physics II taken care of in the same summer if I did Pitt, but Case is pickier with PHYS 122 credit than with PHYS 121, I can fit physics II in next fall here, I'll be in that class with people I know who are currently in PHYS 121, and that's less $$ needed to go to Pitt and 6 weeks less of 12 hours of physics a week) I mentioned all this briefly to Mom, but will need to talk it all over with my parents more in-depth at a later time.

And, um, ew. Summer physics here at Case is an hour and a half more per week, with no free days. No thanks.

Given taking physics I and only physics I over the summer, though, I've got a tentative schedule for next fall already laid out, though, which is cool.

BIOL 215 - Cells and Proteins - MWF 9:30-10:20, T 8:30-11:30 (Could also do the lab 1:15-4:15 or 6:00-9:00 on Tuesdays, but early morning leaves me with more productive hours the rest of the day which is nice, I had that this past fall with my 10:00-11:15 religion class. Time for laundry, and I could really use the time for doing physics lab reports. Everyone seems to hate those.)
JAPN 201 - Intermediate Japanese I - MWF 10:30-11:20, R 10:00-11:15 (Yay for something that's not science/math for a change of pace - though stats shouldn't be too bad compared to honors calculus. Though I do hear foreign language skill is linked to the science-y, math-y parts of the brain rather than to the more humanities parts. Guess that explains how I've always had a knack for 'em.)
CHEM 223 or 323 (probably 323) - Intro to Organic Chemistry I/Organic Chemistry I - MWF 11:30-12:20 (I <3 o. chem. Won't be nearly the same without Mr. Weinand teaching it, though. He was awesome.)
STAT 312 - Statistics for Engineering and Science - MW 12:30-1:45 (This is the only thing that really sucks, having no lunch break two days a week. But I need to get one of a few particular statistics courses one semester next year and calculus IV the other, the honors calc IV isn't offered in the falls and all the sections of the regular calc IV were at the same times as my other 4 academic courses, and all the other stats courses and sections of this one did the same or conflicted with marching band which I really want to take again. I <3 marching band. Guess I'll be doing Grab It for food Mondays and Wednesdays next fall.)
PHYS 122 - General Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism - MWF 2:00-2:50, R (every other week) 1:15-4:15 (I have physics, I hate physics, I REALLY HATE PHYSICS. I just hope there's lots of circuits in this course, because that's cool, but probably not because that's more along the lines of electrical engineering.)
APMU 383D - Spartan Marching Band - W 4:30-6:30 (I really loved doing band this past fall. And it's gym credit. I love band for gym class. I wish marching band could have been gym credit in high school.)

So, yeah, that's my (very tentative) Fall 2005 semester.

New Tori Amos album, The Beekeeper, came out today. And I finally got my Borders gift card, from being amazing at quiz bowl, yesterday too. I really wanted to go to Borders today to pick up the new CD on release date, but it was snowing too much for any of us to be willing to take the bus. Hopefully I'll be able to get out there over the weekend.

... wow, this entry was long.