Saturday, May 08, 2004

Saturday with new meme (Friday Five has stopped...sniff)

Mood: Rarin' to get goin'
Hair: Librarian Look (w/ big clip)

But first: Saw Amy yesterday, ostensibly to teach her how to catalog. [insert snicker here] She and her office-mate know what they're doing. Felt incredibly silly. Lunch was fab. Breaded cheese sticks--very good, must figure out how to make them next time I bake....

Now. Must. Catalog. Frommer's. Even DK noticed the publisher doesn't match the record!! So how come no one else has cataloged them?!

grr...

Anyway: Here's the Saturday Slant...
Going Back To School
You've been offered a full college/university grant, all expenses paid, for the school and study program of your choice. You can go to any school, anywhere, and study anything you want, without a single cent out of pocket for education, materials, or cost of living. Would you take the offer? Where would you go? What would you learn? Would you pursue a course of study related to your current occupation, or would you explore something all together new? Get your pencils and notebooks, let's go back to school.


My first stipulation is that when I finish, I haven't aged since the first day of classes...because here's the deal:

I want a full liberal arts education from Music Theory to History and everything in between, including non-English literatures. Preferred uni: Cambridge. But I'd settle for Oxford. Or even somewhere in Spain or Mexico.

Then, with all that crammed into my head, I would be off to Princeton Seminary. I have no desire to be a minister, but I would love to go really deep on the history and theology of Christianity and how it has related and continues to relate to other religious worldviews. This includes courses in Latin, Greek and Hebrew (hi, Amy), probably Aramaic too. Lots of History courses. Lots of reading. Lots of debate.

See why I need that first stipulation? I figure this would kill off about 15 years or more of my life in classrooms, and I'd like to also be able to enjoy my life while doing the studies. In other words, I'm looking at more than 20 years, conservatively, before I'd finish.

And then do what? I'd probably still want to be a cataloger! Sick sick sick.

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