This and that

This title is in honour of one of my teachers this year. One I didn't like much, actually. She taught her subject in English, but I'd say many of her students were better in English than her, so it's been... strange. And she always used the expression "this and that" in the middle of sentences. I had never heard it before, is it a common expression in English??
Anyway... all my grades were good (mostly Bs and two As). Not bad. Problem is, my best friend in the university is this over achiever, talented, intelligent woman (my own age) and so far she has 5 "10" with honors (way over A). It's hard not to feel a failure when somebody else at your side is so good.
Something bothers me about one of my examinations. It was about philosophy, and I had to write about Education (fairly easy), Marx and education (not difficult) and Sartre. I never understood Sartre, so I didn't even write a single sentence about this man.

"The basis of Sartre's existentialism can be found in The Transcendence of the Ego. To begin with, the thing-in-itself is infinite and overflowing. Sartre refers to any direct consciousness of the thing-in-itself as a "pre-reflective consciousness." Any attempt to describe, understand, historicize etc. the thing-in-itself, Sartre calls "reflective consciousness." There is no way for the reflective consciousness to subsume the pre-reflective, and so reflection is fated to a form of anxiety, i.e. the human condition..."

This is just an extract from wikipedia, but I still don't get it. Do you?

Hooked

I'm going to need to go through some rehab program. Seriously. It's only been two days, but I'm alredy missing school. University, that is. The atmosphere, the classes, my new friends. It's been a great, busy first year... Maybe we're too young when we go to college or uni or whatever you call it. When you're in your thirties, you no longer worry too much about grades or getting rid of the work, you're there to enjoy and learn, and I know I have.

Oh, and... speaking about being hooked. I talked to my doctor and I'm slowly getting off my antidepressant. Hope I can stay without it.

Too many choices??

Videoclip with Billie The Vision and The Dancers

This song is becoming quite popular... the group is Swedish I think, and the video is set in Formentera (Spain).

The value of human life

Ok, I'm too lazy to blog, but let me introduce you to a very interesting blog by a Saudi woman... Sand gets in my eyes
and a post about the value of human life.

OK, she's not Saudi, she's an American living in Saudi Arabia. My mistake!!

Ballet and other stuff

1-I have exams next week. And the week after. I've just started reading. I never study (as in memorising), I merely read again and again...

2-Hubby had another test and as it came out, his neurologist is pretty convinced that he doesn't have juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, but frontal lobe epilepsy. It's harder to control, but he hasn't had another seizure since september. The doctor also said there's a different range of medications available for this type of epilepsy, but will not change his current medication if he doesn't have another seizure. He gave as a prescription for another drug to be taken ONLY if he has another seizure. I didn't get why we don't start now, until I read the side effects. I think it's better if we stick to his regular drugs.

3-I wrote a book report (3 pages) on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. If you're interested I can post it or email it. I think I have a bit of this Peter Pan syndrome: I so wish I wouldn't get any older! I'll be 40 in july!! Anyway, I love going to University again... I recommend it, at any age

4-Alicia had her first ballet performance two weeks ago. See some pics:


She's the girl in the green dress walking to the edge of the stage. She was a frog, just like the rest of the girls in green...




Another view of my favorite frog...