What a day

Indeed... I have not been sleeping properly for the last, erm, four weeks. Yes, I know, I am picturing Joseph saying "That's unhealthy... you look unhealthy... you should try and get some sleep or you'll explode!" But honestly, sometimes I need to stay up to finish the usual work and school stuff... and for the remaining times, I am just not in the mood to do it. Anyway, I found it difficult to get up today to the extent that I almost get late! No harm done, though...

School is just starting, so I know this week will be quite introductory and relaxed. As for every Tuesday and Thursday, I have got three subjects in the morning, which are Health Psychology, Politics and Economy in Mexico (I will never get used to saying I enrolled in that class), and Postmodern Therapies. As explained in a previous post, it was the latter subject the one I was expecting to have most. It will sound funny, but it is because I have always been curious about getting to know Professor Dora, which is one of the most mysterious persons I have ever seen. Why? I would not be able to explain it. You would need to see her in order to know what I mean...

Whoa, the weather is awful lately. Too hot, indeed. I wished we had a pool at our Faculty campus so that we could swim a bit. And having long hair does not help at all, you know; I will not have a shorter haircut, though, so I guess I am a masochist or something like that...

I am finding truly difficult to keep up the "vegan" initiative for I cannot find veggie food anywhere! Thankfully, I could manage to get a salad sandwich at the school's cafeteria (bizarre). And no, I have got no time for cooking on my own. I will have to ask Joseph for some good ideas for such critical situations in which you have not got anything else to eat. Anyway, I spent a some neat quality time with Javier whilst having lunch in which we cogitated about postmodernism and its implications... crazy stuff, I promise!

I went to the Science Campus to deliver my application for Human Computer Interaction (HCI), the subject I registered for at Math School. It has been three years now since I last took a subject there, so I am having mixed feelings about going back. Of course it is not the same: new principal, new coordinators, new people... my generation has graduated already; good for them. So yes, I am enthusiastic about having HCI because I know it is a subject directly related to my interests.

As for the rest of the day... I got home and headed directly to my room to get some rest. And I did rest for a couple of hours. I performed the daily ritual of checking and dispatching all the incoming emails (thankfully no more than 10 for today) before getting up again and review some readings I will have my students read during our class (tomorrow). Oh, and I have not done all of assignments yet, so I had better do something about that. For a change, I want to excel this semester. It is time to show the world what I am assuredly capable of doing.

Postmodern Therapies

The Politics and Economy professor did not show up. I wonder whether she is going to take this subject seriously. I am not that keen on the topic, and if this situation continues, I will certainly keep that idea...

But anyway, Postmodern Theories time.

I am to confess that this subject has generated a great deal of expectations in me. You know, the kind of "How is it going to like?", "Am I going to enjoy it?", "Am I going to even be able to understand what the subject is about?". So many questions, and most of them unsolved before having the first class.

Professor Dora seems to know what she really is into... funny, is not it? Of course she does, or otherwise she would not have been chosen to teach it. What I like about her at the moment is that she is congruent with her ideals, which is sort of difficult to do. I think it has to do with the idiosyncrasy of the subject in general. I am looking forward to getting into some debates and discussions regarding the topics we are expected to fulfil.

The dynamics of the class seem to be interesting enough, and so far I have liked a couple of activities which I have not seen before (the letters activity and the enquiry about expectations). Fortunately, I am not biased by any psychological paradigm (not that I will ever be), so I reckon I will be able to maintain a fair judgement over the topics we will study. Oh, and I like the idea of keeping a daily record of the thoughts we come up with everyday. I utterly enjoy writing.

No assignments. See you next Thursday. :D

Health Psychology

Honestly, I have got no idea what I was thinking when I chose to have this subject... or perhaps I do know. Fact is that there I was and, as I was expecting, the dynamics for the class are quite different from what I would normally do.

Class was really straightforward today: we introduced ourselves (mostly new faces to me) as you would do the first day of class and stated our expectations with regard to the subjects. We even have a visitor from Spain, who will be taking the subject with us. Hopefully, he will share his schemata with us and enrich our discussions.

Truth is that this subject is going to represent a challenge to me, for I know I do not feel preference for these topics. It is precisely because of the latter idea that I need to excel for the matter. I will just do what is needed and I am sure that the rest will come on its own.

Psychological Well-being

Second class so far. Ricardo Castillo seems to have a pretty good idea what he is talking about. Anyhow, he is a tad too enthusiastic and tries to emphasise what he likes. I do not know whether that is positive, but I will remain sceptic in the mean time.

It seems that we have to present a topic in the class, so I have decided to prepare the "Hollow Kids" one, which sounds quite interesting to me. Anyway, I need to get the book and read it in order to have a fair notion of it.

Stay tuned.

Instructors' Formation

The semester has commenced! My first class was Instructors' Formation, a subject which promises to be very interesting and ad hoc with regard to my necessities.

Provided it was the first class, we spent most of the time introducing ourselves and discussing how the subject is going to be like. Our teacher seems to be nice and flexible, so I expect to have no problems whatsoever. As our first assignment, the teacher asked us to look for information about other Instructors' Formation courses we could find on the Internet.

Hopefully this will help me a lot.