Tin y Dancer, Almost Famous and Da Vince Code

No matter how old I grow into, I always find myself being silly in retrospect. (Well, you can say it is quite silly to retrospect at all).

Anyway, I am listening to the mixed CD D. made for me last year. It is all smiling, as if to celebrate my life wasn't that boring after all last year. I was pursuing her as my love interest, but I also knew her imperfection from the day I knew her. I have no way to judge whether all those were rational or reasonable. I just did what I felt right at that moment. And now I can relax and smile at my own sillyness, only to hope the episode would not diminish my tendency to be silly again. And of course, I no longer feel awkward to wore the "I Heart NY" T-shirt. When people asked whether I had been to New York, I said that my friend gave the t-shirt to me. It is amazing how I once assumed that these artifacts were as dead as tombstone, only to find they got back to life with the passage of time, presenting a new layer of meaning to me. Now it is the track 03, Tiny Dancer by Elton John, that is dancing through my ears. Studies showed that ipod is destorying the ears of the young people. And I say, bring it on. Indeed, there are some brilliant songs there.

I have been keeping up the schedule with myself. Up early and down early. Now I have the whole morning back, and also began my morning work-out plan. So far so good. I think I can do with 7 hours of sleep again, when I have this neat schedule.

Classes are all going well. I wasted less time on line, and spent more time reading. I just finished a book "The Da Vinci Code". It is quite an amazing book. Besides being really enjoyable, it confirmed one of my thoughts: "religion is all about limiting human's interpretation of the real history". But it went beyond that, "religion is actually fun. All the amazing stories and symbols, songs and texts. What makes it amazing is the fact that it is shared by so many people. Not the opposite, that people believed it because it is amazing." A really fun read. I could not put it down for a while. Now I am picking up another book, Kite Runner.

The class I am supposed to teach this quarter will be cancelled, I am quite sure, due to the low enrollment. Several reasons: 1. the class did not make the Time Schedule, 2) the title turned people away. Anyway, bad lucky, but I am still a good teacher.

I am auditing a Human Biology class. It is fun class, as I began to understand the bahaviors of the people around me and, more importantly, myself. I probably would have more to say when the topic covers sexual behavior, mental health or spirituality. Indeed, the instructor is an atheist and teaches about evolution. He does not hide that he suffered from mental problems sometimes, and I think I understands him: the peril of being a thinker without the comfort of blind belief. However, when they shine, they shine through. His class has 500 people. Yesterday I arrived at the classroom 10 minutes before the lecture and I got the third to the last row. I guess I can use this to comfort myself, using a sentence from the movie Almost Famous (co-incidently, it's theme song is no other than Tiny Dancer): "Some day, you will be cool," the sister told the narrator of the movie.

Also, I have a swimming class and a weigth training class. I am not really taking them. I just want to convince myself so that I will take my work-out schedule seriously. Tomorrow will be a busy day, and I accept.