Happy Valentines Day!!

So I'm going to just keep this blog to write random things I'm thinking or doing here in nyc. I know its not as exotic a location as most of my friends but, its still interesting. and I kept a journal all through high school and I think it was therapeutic so, I'm getting back into it.

Here are some quotes to celebrate the day!

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.-jimi hendrix

Ingrid Bergman:

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

and of course by one of my favorites- Pablo Neruda, just an excerpt I liked
Me miran con tus ojos las estrellas más grandes.
Y, como yo te amo, los pinos en el viento
Quieren cantar tu nombre con sus hojas de alambre.

so anyway in psychology today we were learning about the brain, and the limbic system controls emotions, anger pleasure etc, and there is a part of your brain which learns rewards. but what is the psychology or science of love? is there a chemical for that? it encompasses all emotions. is it an addiction? is it real? if anger and happiness are real, isnt love more real than anything? well anyone who has a scientific opinion, let me know

what else was I thinking today
I watched The Descent, a -scary-movie, basically, if you ever go spelunking, go to a cave which other people have survived, and bring a flask and a shotgun, just in case. oh and when you run up to someone with an ax in their hand, call out before you're right behind them. eck.

and then we watched Splash (my roomies are film students), about tom hanks and a mermaid.

I had a busy week of training for my internship at the nyu child study center. Its really interesting its evaluating the cultural parenting practices of dominican and mexican mothers and how it affects their preschoolers academically and socioemotioally.i get to test preschoolers, aka play with them and keep data. shoudl be interesting, and i like the people working on the project. one is a school psychologist, which im interested in.

and my group dynamics class is interesting but I think the teacher and some of the theory is complete BS. my expressive face might get me into trouble...lol

and in my social work class, an attorney in family law came in and spoke. its cool my teacher is great. Hes such a nice guy, and he is a working social worker so its cool he genuinely wants us to learn and brings people in so we can ask experts. its a good opportunity.

I ask a lot of questions this semester. Maybe i'm that annoying girl but, when the material is interesting I dont get how people can just sit there and not think about it. or not ask questions or discuss it. i mean isnt that what school is for. otherwise we would all just sit at home and read to ourselves.

but ok bedtime
hope u have a great valentines day!
Im a little lonely of course but, for the most part I genuinely like seeing other people in love, so hopefully I will see some cute things tomorrow. gnite :)