Something New Everyday

Today I learned...

That I need WAY more then 4 hours of sleep in order to function in the morning. Of course, I already knew this, it just seems that I've been forgetting recently. I also learned that sleeping with the light on for over a week makes it hard to fall asleep with or without light. My cyrcadian rhythms are all fuct up.

I learned that sex is the motivation behind everything! At least that's what Freud thought. Anything you do that gives you pleasure you do because on some level you get sexual gratification from it. Here is a brief list of my own interests that fit into that broad definition:

Writing
reading
playing on Neopets
talking to my friends
seeing a good play
DJing
saying something really intelligent in class
acting
doing oral presentations
going to the movies with my brother
taking a nice ling walk
watching Law and Order or Buffy or Homicide
meeting Maggie Estep
sociology
studying race relations
martial arts
engaging in a good debate

I could go on but you get the picture. Yes, in Freud's opinion I do all of these things because I get off on them, on more than a purely metaphorical level. Here is a brief list of significant happenings that, according to this theory, occured purely for their sexual gratification:

building of the pyramids
the sphinx
the empire state building
the destruction of WTC
assasination of JFK
gulf war
columbine
harlem renaissance
WW II

Did I mention that Freud was a quack?

I learned that Mom is back from Florida and saw Talia while she was there. Talia is living in Wyoming with her boyfriend and waiting tables. Mom says she doesn't look as pretty as she used to but I find that hard to believe. Talia on her worst day is still ten times finer than most of the women I know at their best. I think Mom just has a low opinion of Talia and therefore has a tendancy to see only negative things about her. Like we learned in Psych class, you find what you look for. If you are expecting or wanting to see someone in a negative light, you will. It also works the other way, only being able to see someone in a positive light which is where I stand when it comes to Talia. She'll always rock in my eyes. She made me much of what I am today. Hell I got my entire sense of humor from her. (and Mike to a lesser extent.)

I learned from the grape vine that Jake and Jennie have...broken up? Are not engaged? I dunno. All I know is something is wrong with them and Jake is in "distress." Ah I love gossip.

And I learned how to embarass myself in front of a philosopher today. Made an ass of myself in front of Matt Lindquist today while we were debating human nature over lunch. (How very scholarly of us.) I can't give you a specific instance but he was being arrogant and not listening to my point of view, and since I'm no philosopher I was having a hard time backing up my point with concrete proof. Of course now that I look back on it I realize he didn't back up his opinion either, but who knows. Eventually we both got frustrated and went home.

So what have we learned from today's tutorial?

That sex is the motivating factor behind sleep dep, half assed philosophical debates, and moving to Wyoming to be a waitress.