Thoughts provoked by boredom (during class even)

Here we are, two days into class and I am already somewhat bored by them. Maybe it is because they were the "Here is the syllabus. . . and now I will read it to you" class periods. Regardless, most of the following was written during my classes today.

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So yeah . . . I am writing this while listening to Hartley ramble on about Social Psychology. He and his salmon colored shirt are annoying me. His teaching style thus far has not impressed me. He is rambling at two miles a minute, sidetracks himself from his lecture, and has said the word 'uh' approximately 40 times in the past minute and a half.

Because of this, I am letting my mind wander, and I decided to write down my thoughts. Right now I have a song stuck in my head - "She Is" by The Fray. The chorus of the song states, "She is everything I need that I never knew I wanted. She is everything I want that I never knew I needed."

I love the song (one of my current top two in fact), but every time I listen to it, two questions pop into my head.

1. Who is she?
2. Sure, she's everything I want and need, but am I anything she wants or needs?

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Ok, that was rather pointless, but it shows the odd tangents my mind gets off to when I let it. Unlike most people, when I hear a song, I don't just listen to the lyrics. I analyze the lyrics and try to fit them into some sort of context and meaning. I poke and prod the lyrics until I find some weird analogy or question I can press them into and BAM . . .I sound crazy.

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A brief interlude for class 2. I am sitting here in Abnormal Psych and Pulver is barely even putting up his thin veneer of tolerance for me. It makes me laugh, but I am going to tolerate him, suck it up, and get through the class as quickly and cleanly as possible. Well, back to pretending I care one whit what he is talking about.

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Class #3, and here in Professional Seminar, Chau has been reading straight from the syllabus for 50 minutes. This class is going to be interesting for me. The majority of our work here has vague deadlines. My procrastinatory nature will make this hard for me, but I will hopefully find some way to force myself to work on things in advance. . . . I hope.

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Ok, so now I have another song stuck in my head. Earlier it was "She Is", and funnily enough I associate this next song with "She Is".

I first heard "Find Yourself" by Brad Paisley the night the movie Cars came out (yayy for working at a Drive-In theater). When I first heard the part of the song that states "When you meet the one that you've been waiting for, and she's everything you want and more" I was struck by the sentiment in those words. I also felt that they were somewhat lacking and said as much to my co-worker. I told him that the lyrics should have been more along the lines of "When you meet the one you've waited for and she's all you ever needed but didn't know you wanted".

About a week later, I bought myself The Fray's album "How To Save A Life" and popped it into my car's CD player as I drove home. When the chorus to song number 1 started I starting laughing so hard I almost cried. Song number 1 was "She Is" and if you have read the beginning of this post you know that the chorus of the song is almost identical to the lyrics I suggested to my co-worker.

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Well, that is the extent to which I wrote during my classes today. I now have another song in my head, but the reasoning behind having that song stuck in my head are quite different from the above. There was nothing that caused me to have "She Is" or "Find Yourself" stuck in my head, but this other song is stuck in my head for a reason . . . and I like it.