I started on my honors paper (due Tuesday) about the writings of Anselm and Aquinas, but more specifically, I’m to argue either that the existence of God can be proved rationally or that it cannot be proved rationally. I’m going for can, but I didn’t get further than griping about Anselm’s stupid argument this afternoon.

I’ve been feeling stressed recently because everything’s up in the air. Besides the normal worries of finals and grades, I don’t know if I’m going to be here for part of the summer, working and taking a class, or if I’ll go home at the beginning of May like everyone else. It’s kind of hinging on Dr. J’s program this summer, on whether or not he’ll have it. If he does, I’m definitely in because I should be able to profit from it, considering he’ll be paying me and I’ll be working at the same job I have now. Probably. Because I don’t know how much time that would occupy, and then the class that I would be taking (some political science course) will meet every day for two hours. I think I would have time to work a good deal, though, since I work 20 hours a week now and that’s with me only working three hours on Wednesday and none on Tuesday/Thursday. It would be great if I could get things arranged more concretely, but Dr. J just doesn’t know enough yet to tell me. I hate that, too; I like to have everything set in stone and laid out well in advance.

This bugs my parents, too, as I know they want me home for the whole summer. This would cut out May from my vacation and I’d be home a week or so into June. I think classes start again in the fall in late August, so I’d have about two months of vacation. That suits me fine, as I don’t want to be lazing around forever, though I know those two months will fly by. And heck, if this summer arrangement falls through, I may have three months off. I’d feel like a real bum, then; I haven’t had a summer off since between my sophomore and junior years in high school.

Thanks to Chris at work, I now have some new music to listen to. Namely, The Faint, Fiona Apple’s unreleased album called “Extraordinary Machine,” Tricky, and various other things. I’ve been listening to Tricky, Fiona, and The Faint non-stop, though, which is why I mention them.

New skin available; check to your right. The image was taken from sxc.hu and I fixed it up in, of course, The GIMP.

I’ve been browsing a lot since last night via Firefox’s StumbleUpon extension. I got Lora hooked up with it as I always find her visiting random sites akin to Bored.com; we’ve made good use of it. I was just deposited at Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Anarchy (But Were Afraid To Ask) and am reading out of boredom. The idea of StumbleUpon is to, you guessed it, let you stumble upon random sites across the ‘net. Click a button on a toolbar in Firefox (the toolbar can be hidden away at the press of Ctrl-F9, too) and you’re transported. You can rate the site as well as review it, and also set up some interests so that you end up going to sites that might entertain you.