| Current mood: |  cold |
| Current music: | Whatever the guys in the room below me are listening to. |
Brrr.
Even though my computer is fixed, I'm sitting in the Baxter computer lab, playing on the internet. The thought process was that I would do my stats homework in here, which I did, but I figured that I would then continue with other homework. That I didn't. But it's so cold in here, that I'm thinking about leaving anyways. I have a Psychology Club meeting in 20 minutes downstairs, though, so I guess I'll just have to suck it up until that's over.
School has been going ok still. Classes are still getting themselves worked out, and I'm finally starting to hear about my self-taught class. I guess Turner wants us to meet Wednesdays at 4 (even though it's self-taught, we'll have the weekly meetings to keep ourselves on track)... which would conflict with my psych senior sem but Elwood has decided that we don't actually have to meet until 4:30, and that 4:00 will do just fine. I'll have to make sure that's actually what is going to happen, though. I told Turner that I would probably be late for the weekly meeting, and that I need to make sure Elwood's thought process doesn't change again within the next week, so we'll see how all that goes.
I've been working a lot in the Admission Office lately, despite having so few scheduled hours. We're working on training 20-30 new ambassadors, and since I have the loosest schedule (my fellow Leadership Core buddy has an insanely rough schedule this semester), I'm taking on a lot of the responsibilities of training. It doesn't bother me much; I need the money, and I like training.... and today, I didn't even have any classes to go to, so why not work and make some money? I had to take 3 tours out today, and each time it was raining. It had been raining constantly today. Even though I had my nice new rain coat on, walking around for three hours in the rain still gets you soaked to the bone. I even had an umbrella, but that only helps so much...
After I got back from doing that, I discovered how mood-lifting dry clothes can really be :)
Meghan and I have a date weekend coming up that we're both really excited about. Courtney is going out of town, so it's just the two of us. Friday night there is a gallery hop in Jacksonville, where the local gallerys display new artwork from local artists, so we'll be going to that. It doesn't go too late, though, so we might watch a movie or something after that. Saturday night Illinois College is hosting a concert by Ludo... I had never heard of them before, but Meghan sent me a video of one of their songs, and it got me pretty excited.
exhibit A ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCU1JYmGxcA
It's a little weird, but makes me happy every time I hear it.
For my Psych Senior seminar, Elwood is having us read some articles on cyborgs, and had us do a lot of research on them. I still haven't quite figured out his thought process behind it yet, but whatever. I did the reading, I did the research. It was so weird about some of the things that turned up, though. One article in particular kind of gave me the heebie-jeebies, as my grandma would say. It talked about a woman who was becoming a 'cyborg' because of her reliance on technology... but it wasn't that she was reliant that made me uncomfortable, it was how she relied on it. It said that for the past five or so years (the article was posted in 2004 though), the woman had not had actual sex, but had numerous experiences of cybersex and phone sex. And the researcher who was studying this expressed the opinion that this would someday be more common than actual intercourse... I guess because there is the same end, but different (and safer?) means.
I'm not disgusted by the thought of cybersex/phone sex; that's not what gave me my case of heebie-jeebies. It was the fact that the theory expressed believes that people would be fine with giving up the intimacy, the humanness of one of the most human acts, for safety.
Granted, I think a world with less unwanted pregnancies, less abortions, less STDs, and less AIDS would be marvolous. But I can't imagine giving up the act itself. I guess it's hard for me to talk about this from where I am in life (can a virgin analyze the pros and cons of cybersex and 'normal' sex??), but for my, just being touched, held, cuddled, is something that I would never want to give up. I love it all so much, and can't imagine ditching it in an attempt to stay safe. There's so many other options...
But anyways, those are my thoughts on the theory of cybersex becoming the norm. TMI?
Too bad. You didn't have to read it. :)
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