things and stuff.

i have still been cooking a lot.
i've gotten into shredding potatoes for stir-fries rather than cutting them into lil' triangles.
if you don't cook them to a crisp, like you would do with hashbrowns, they are amazing.
i just finished cooking curried spinach, carrots, broccoli, zucchini, and textured vegetable protein.
sooooo gooooood!
on top of everything else, i have a feeling that my wisdom teeth are coming in, which blows.
and if that isn't what's going on, then something really painful and distracting is going on.
surprise, surprise.
philosophy and literature was amazing yesterday.
i have a feeling all of the girls in that class are going to cry at least once, heh.
it's a super intimate setting, and we talk about insanely sad things a lot, and the professor is really sweet and intense.
after reading the unbearable lightness of being, i learned a little bit more about myself,
because it's very easy to relate to one of the four main characters.
sabina symbolizes lightness, tomas is kind of in the middle, franz is more weighty, and tereza is the emblem of weight.
i related to tereza most, while everyone else in my class disliked her and related to sabina most.
apparently sabina is more "realistic," which actually surprised and bummed me out a little bit.
the thing is, living "lightly" basically translates into living extremely selfishly and following a "path of betrayals," which simply means running away from anything that gets too heavy and serious.
are people really like that? i mean, "lightness" is a very admirable trait in a character in a novel, because who doesn't ever find themselves in a situation where they really wish that they could just get up and run without saying a word, but instead feel too badly to ever actually do that?
but in real life? what about compassion? compassion is weight.
tereza is the character who basically welcomes burdens and thrives off of suffering, and i feel like she gains wisdom from that.
i am not saying that everyone should welcome burdens and suffer, but it is a sad, sad thing if running away from everything is more realistic. we learn so much less that way.
i don't know. i suppose it was an eye-opening class.