I learned something about myself today
I was typing up my intro for my Physical Science class and I just kept typing, just letting the words flow without even really “thinking”…I love when those moments come.
I enjoy Science as it runs hand in hand with ever-expanding technology. I need to know how things work and why they work and how it was all figured out to begin with. Until I can wrap my mind around it all, I can be quite stubborn as I try to read and see too much into things that can be quite simple. I am also the same person who argued in high school Science that there was no way that Isaac Newton was laying under an apple tree and watched an apple fall to the ground and wondered why it fell down and didn’t go up. I did say stubborn, right? I have since learned that I am just like Newton. I see something so simple that no one even thinks about differently, and I want to know why it is the way it is. Until I figure it out, I won’t let it rest.
But, I am also very strict in my morals and beliefs that Science can cross the line between what is right and wrong, and that line is a very thin line. Who’s right and wrong it is can be questioned at any given point. Most of the time it’s my standards. So, you won’t even find me cloning a sheep or growing ears off the back of a mouse.
I suspect this class will further my need to know…well, know whatever it is I feel I “knead” [sic] to know at this time. I will get my hands dirty and wring my head around the subjects and information I didn’t know I had an yearning to learn until it came to be in front of me.
My mother-in-law and uncle (in-law) were saying yesterday that I will be 50 years old and still in college just because I need to know. That is very likely. But at one point, I hope to find myself not having student loans to pay off.
reading
I’ve been doing a lot of it. I bought my kindle in March and since then I have read 90ish books.
I’ve read the Breed series by Lora Leigh. (Not safe for children’s eyes – very sexually explicit, but a great sci-fi series of “breeds” whose dna has been fused with animal dna before being implanted inutero…) I also read a few more of her books but was not the fan of them like I was the Breed series, so I put them away and moved on to other books.
Nalini Singh has to be one of my new favorite authors. I read her Changeling-Psy series and can’t wait for the new book to be released. I also read her Angel’s Blood book and LOVED it!! I look forward to the other books in the Guild Hunter series also. Another great sci-fi series of different “races” of people. Some are Psy (psychic), some are Changelings (1/2 human, 1/2 animal and can “be” in either form), and of course humans.
I just finished up the third book of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instrument series. I loved it, could hardly put it down. Vampires, werewolves, humans, etc – yep, another sci-fi series. Jenny recommended the first book and I am ever so grateful she did! Great read!
I also recently read Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum Finger Lickin’ Fifteen book, the latest in the series. I enjoyed it almost as much as the previous Plum books. This one seemed rushed at the end, but I still lauhged my butt off several times in the book.
I started Christine Feehan’s Magic Sisters series, but wasn’t too thrilled with it. They were okay, but nothing fast paced and full of thought like I am wanting. So after 2 books, I put them on the back burner for now. They will be great in-betweens when I have nothing else to read.
For now, I am on the search for something good. I read Nora Robert’s Black Hills and LOVED it, but I’m not looking for anything like that right now. I’m off to search.
Have anything good to recommend, please let me know!
One day soon I hope Meleesa kicks my butt hard enough to get me more organized in what I have read so I can keep a nice list that will never be as nice as hers.
