I’m not sure if I mentioned this previously, but I am taking a year off of school. The first fall term of not going to school was a little terrifying, but I really needed the break. I have relaxed a lot, as previously stated, I am a lot more social as well. Some things though, have not changed at all. I still read like a student, and I fear that I will never get over this. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, it’s just entertaining to me.

In my last year, I took a psychology class in which I found a new obsession or two. For some unknown reason, I find Lobotomys FASCINATING! I am totally obsessed with the idea of damaging the frontal lobe for mood altering purposes. While I was reading an article titled “The Rise and Fall of the Frontal Lobotomy” and I found that, despite that this reading was for pleasure, I was taking notes. When will I ever use these notes? Why was I taking them? Out of habit, because I will always be a student! Will I ever be able to read without formulating essays is my head? I already know that I will never shed my habit of correcting grammar, but honestly, is it necessary for me to have a comparative essay on Scott Westerfeld, George Orwell, and Aldous Huxley on the back burner of my brain?

Also, I do plan on going back to school in the Fall. I’m going into the Maritime Program through Seattle Central Community College. True, this has nothing to do with the early practices of psychology, but I truly have a passion for the maritime industry and would be in complete bliss to be captain of a cruise ship.

In the meantime though, I will job search (always) and geek out over Phineas Gage’s mood altering accident to his anterior left lobe.