DeMizio's Journal

Another semester begins...

The semester seems to be getting off to a good start. Classes are pretty cool. The lowdown:

• Democratic Vistas - My final honors class, taught by Dr. Volpe. Volpe is a pretty cool guy, very mellow, very much set in that education is a personal experience best left up to the student. Lots of independent readings, many different points of view, all in the vein of attempting to get some greater truth. The material is going to be difficult, but I like the authors; I think Emerson will be among them...its a large class, and my earliest class starting at 11am on T/R.


• Film as Art - This is the weird one this semester. I'm retaking to erase the "D" that I recieved 2 years ago. I'm in class with freshmen and sophomores mainly, and I really don't know anyone. It's Bill Wine though, who is pretty easy to please if you're able to coherently state your viewpoint. He's hysterical too, which helps.


• Film History - My other class with Wine. Looks to be interesting - not a lot of work, but some really interesting subject matter. This is the class with everyone from Film Seminar last semester, which makes conversation interesting and worthwhile. There's also a few seniors taking it as an elective - they should be interesting as the class pans out.


• Travel Study to Ireland - it meets Friday, so I haven't had it yet...but how bad could it be? We're going to Ireland for spring break! What else is there?

In other news...had a random night with Cristin, Danielle, and Melissa earlier this week...went up to fix Danielle's computer, but couldn't (anyone have system restore disks for an HP 7200 model computer?) and so we just got to talking. About wine. And I professed a like for wine, and a desire to try more. They have several cases of decent wine, and Danielle proceeded to open up a bottle, and we three polished it off in a few hours while just talking. And there was a small bottle of champagne too, and that was cool...we just had some really random conversations, and I saw many many scrapbooks from previous summers and school years. It was one of the most random nights I've had at La Salle (right up with Dave and the leather pants) but it was one of the best.

In other aspects of my life, I continue to be as apprehensive and nervous about things as ever. More on this later, as I finally realize that there's five months left to say the things that I need and want to say to the people around me. Nothing serious, mind you, but hell, sometimes you have to look at life as a time to say what you want to, because there's really nothing to lose in the end that you wouldn't have lost anyhow.

Laramie progresses. That's about all I can say, having worked on some research, but not having seen any rehearsals.

I'm currently praying for a snow day for Thursday. 3-5 inches, come on down!

Posted by Matthew at January 15, 2004 02:37 AM