Never Forget You

On Friday I met up with Jenna and Stephen, who are definitely in my unofficial list of favorite people ever. It's a little nostalgic, really. I can't believe it's been a year since our intro to philosophy class. I remember when philosophy was fun and simply inspirational. Now it's more like a challenge for me. It's not that I don't like it anymore--I still love it. I guess I haven't been reading the stuff I'm really into lately, but is going to change because I read a preview of one of Thomas Nagel's book and ordered it today.

I read the preview while I was supposed to be research-hunting a few days ago. Yeah, about that, I found some research projects I'd actually would be very interested in working on. I actually am hoping I could start at least volunteering in a lab next semester. I'll see how that goes.

Today was my last day volunteering at the WRC. It was sad. I complain about squirrels all the time because sometimes it gets overwhelming when there are so many to feed (actually there was only about 3 weeks where it was actually busy). But squirrels are so lovely. It's sad that you feed them and they still grow up to growl at you anyway, but that's for their own good, I guess. I love squirrels.

As I was leaving the WRC, I finally had the chance to read the quote that was framed in the volunteers lounge (if that's what it's called).

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." - Henry Beston

See, this is one of the reasons why I like biology. I'm a humanist--I admire the greatness of human achievements and value all these qualities that make us different from other creatures. But sometimes you just have to take a step back and realize that there's a bigger world out there. I don't agree with any system of belief that pretend humans are intrinsically above everything else--in the eyes of God or whoever. Plants really fascinate me in the philosophical sense, by the way.

Okay, so I finally got to catch up on some TV shows. I really wish I watched more shows. There seem to be a lot of good ones out there. I want to watch one of those geeky ones so I can be more of a geek, haha. But somehow I end up watching stuff like Gossip Girl, which is good entertainment. One Tree Hill is still my favorite, mainly for the music and the deepness (depth?). I over-analyze everything and get so much out of the simplest things.

It's late (past 2 AM), so I'm going to sleep after maybe watching one more episode of Gossip Girl, haha. Tomorrow will hopefully be a productive day of biochem, logic, and biology. And hopefully I'll get my philosophy reading assignment for Tuesday before Monday afternoon this week. Jeez.

Here's a good song that inspired the title of this post: Noisettes' "Never Forget You"