Ack New Semester

So the new semester starts on Tuesday. Yep, I'm still at Fullerton College and will be for the next few semesters. I'm also switching from a humanities based major to a science major. This semester I'll be taking Organismal Biology, General Chemistry I, and Spanish 102; all three of these are 5 unit classes which take a lot of work. I am also taking Trig and an Independent Study math class. I've got most of my books and school supplies ready to go, all that I've got left is to print out some materials from some class websites and put my binders together. I'm aiming for the perfect 4.0 this semester. I am also excited about my new bag for this semester. I got it at the Army-Navy surplus store; it's a Paratrooper's Messenger bag according to the tag. It's army green and can fit all my books. Plus, it's got a nice shoulder pad thing so the strap doesn't dig into my should and a whole bunch of straps that I'm not sure what to do with...yet.



I've got a new project on my mind - building two complimentary bookshelves for the shelves already in my room. Once I get the shelves built and stained I hope to embark on the crazy task of reorganizing my book system. At one point my books were alphabetically organized by author for fiction and by subject for non-fiction. Right now there are just stacks and stacks of books bursting out of my shelves. Now I am just going to organize both fiction and non-fiction together alphabetically by title. I get it's not the most orthodox way of organizing my books but I think it'll be an easy way to do it without having me get stressed out about it.



So what have I been reading, watching, etc. recently

• Reading Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien. I've wanted to read this book for a while and recently stole (with approval) from Bean's classroom. I've read a few of O'Brien's other books and really enjoyed them. So far so good.
• I watch a lot of TV but mostly movies and stuff from Netflix or online, I'm not really into live TV or regular TV I guess. But, recently I've found One Big Happy Family on TLC. I love this show, its interesting.
• http://www.chairfag.com/ The tagline for this sight is "Because you're gay for chairs." It's just got some really cool architecture and furniture; emphasis obviously being on chairs.
• The Hurt Locker - I'd heard really good things about this movie and it's director, Kathryn Bigelow. I expected it to be an action packed movie and it turned out to really trace the team leader's character. All in all I thought it was good. A way different take on the typical war movie
• The Watchmen - Hated it. I liked the individual story lines of the characters, but that killed the movie as a whole. It was just too disjointed to follow clearly. I couldn't even finish it.
• Wallander - I haven't actually seen this but I desperately want to. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Wallander, the fictional sleuth in the novels by Henning Mankell. It's from BBC and frankly I adore BBC. Most of the shows I've seen from the BBC are awesome.

That's all for now I think. Ooh, I'm planning an architecture tour of the LA area :). More on that later.

Wander on my friends, wander on.